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Writing Secure Web Browsers is Hard

It strikes me as a bit of gloating, but he does have a point: there's nothing magical about Firefox. I use it everyday, but I'm careful with it in every way that I am with Internet Explorer. Writing any kind of software is hard, and users have to be vigilant regardless of the source of the software.
Where the blog entry in question jumps the rails is with the bold red statement:
The number of vulnerabilities in Firefox recently has been alarming. At first Firefox appeared to be an attractive alternative to Internet Explorer (IE) for security reasons, but IE is now looking better and better in comparison.
I personally don't think that this is the case. Bugs in Firefox make Firefox look bad; they don't make Internet Explorer look good.
The Firefox update was released yesterday.
By Periodik Labs on May 12, 2005 10:14 AM |

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