Comments on: Exploit heightens risk from old Firefox flaw

Code that takes advantage of a security hole in older versions of the open-source Web browser could help an attacker take control of PCs.

There's been a terrible mistake

All through the story, they kept saying Firefox. Surely they meant Internet Explorer?

We're continually told that Firefox is the dog's testicles & IE sucks. Or perhaps the story was about Safari, or Opera, or Netscape, or Gopher or any other browser apart from Firefox.

Or could it just be that, as I KEEP on telling y'all......ALL software has bugs.

[Far Star]

Oh Please

Who really doesn't know this? Who do you think your being the ubber guru for on this site? Hint: THIS IS A TECH NEWS SITE! I.e. you are trying to look sooo smart for people that probably know far more than you.

Try and remember:
1) IE has more bugs (and more serious ones) than Firefox (compare http://secunia.com/product/11/ to http://secunia.com/product/4227/ ... 83 vulnerabilities to 19) and that is the key factor, not that one or the other is bug free but what effect the existing (and new) bugs have on security. IE is crap compared to Firefox, in fact they just found a new "extremely critical" bug in IE (see http://secunia.com/advisories/15891/)

2) Everyone knows that software has bugs and I've NEVER seen anyone claim otherwise ... the Firefox team has claimed they are more secure, not bug free.

3) Sarcasm as a tool for debate is only reserved for those that don't know what they are debating about.

Come back when you have something more substantial to say.

Let me guess

It affects Windows versions of Firefox right?

[Andrew J Glina]

Doubt It

Most Firefox flaws would be common to all versions.

[PCCRomeo]

People just need to upgrade!

I can't believe this was made into a story. Before you know it they'll start reporting of flaws in Internet Explorer 4, and Opera 6. I could see them reporting it if, say, there was an OS not supporting Firefox 1.0.4. But there's no OS' not supporting 1.0.4 as 1.0.1.

Well That's It!

Too many bugs in FireFox. They should have thrown away all of the original Netscape source code instead of building on top of it.

I'm switching back to IE. Oh wait, I never left IE because I knew FireFox was a bunch of hype in the first place.

The lesson to take away from this is your crap stinks as much as the next person's so quit hyping it.

If you want to be secure then unplug your computer from the Internet, or in the very least quit visiting the smut sites.

What a load of bs

you my friend are so damn stupid maybe you should know what you are talking about about befor start talking cuz all I hear is a load of bs. but thank you, at least I know that stupid ppl like you still exist.

LOL

Seriously. I'm sticking with IE!