Comments on: Mozilla: We're more secure than Microsoft

Firefox has fewer holes than IE and it will stay that way, says its chief promoter.

[katamari]

Hey Baker...

What's with the big "FP" banner/sign/WHATEVERITIS in your building? And what's with that incredibly CREEPY wooden statue (maybe an indian?) in the entryway.

Pretty weird, man...

[nrlz]

good security innovations

I like how Firefox stole the yellow information bar idea from IE6 in WinXP-SP2. It makes Firefox a lot more secure by reducing "warning fatigue".

[Greenbeanx]

So..

The article is talking about how Mozilla Firefox will have less critical holes and your talking about some info bar no one really cares about? wow..

As she said that no software is perfect but Mozilla and other open source projects have done a great job..I'm sure FF and other will not have to much trouble.. All the Anti-FF people try to rub it in that FF has some holes but IE has more holes then swiss cheese.I trust FF until it gives me a reason to change like IE did..until that time if it comes I do enjoy FF's features like tabbed browsing, extentions which make the browser highly customizable

[saleen351]

I like how IE 6 is stealing FF tab browesing

who cares about a little yellow bar...???

My only issue with FF is that new novice users will have a harder time installing stuff like flash and FF doesn't have the servers to handle the secuirty updates.

[System Tyrant]

Firefox

I see a lot of you pointing out that Firefox's tabbed browsing comes from Opera. Well, maybe it does, but tabs in a program have been around for a long time. Opera my have been first to use it in a web browsers, but they weren't the first to use it in a program.

Some of you have pointed out that it's innovation not reinvention that keeps the markets going. Firefox has copied many ideas from other venders and other venders will copy ideas from Firefox. It's one thing to copy an idea. It's another to rip off somebodies work. I would imagine that is a fine line.

Yes, it is.

It's the difference between having a copyright and having a patent, for example.

It really isn't supposed to work this way, but with software patents and the review process being what it is, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft could get a patent on the little warning bar and Opera could get a patent on the tabbed browsing and so on and so forth.

Then, it would take several years for the patent to finally be reexamined and thrown out . . . of course, we all know software patents are here to advance the pace of innovation, right? Apparently, that's by making sure everyone has to file papers to use features that never should have been patented because they are obvious combinations of existing inventions (like tabbed browsing--oh, wow, I came up with the idea to put a taskbar, essentially, in a web browser instead of an OS). Obvious combination, right?

Well, similar stupidity does make it through the patent process. It would seem the debate over proper credit and what constitutes "stealing of ideas" is still alive and well.

Really, if we already had the "fine line", we would much better off. But, it seems like the line doesn't stay put. No wonder there are so many patent suits in this industry.