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:The Register: Just How Buggy is Firefox?
The Register: Just How Buggy is Firefox?
Sep 8, 2006, 19 :30 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (5922 reads)

(Other stories by John Leyden)

"Security researchers that carried out a code analysis of popular open source browser Firefox using automated tools, have discovered scores of potential defects and security vulnerabilities despite coming to the conclusion that the software was generally well written.

"A former Mozilla developer has criticised the methodology of the analysis and said it provides little help in unearthing real security bugs..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
"To spend smart developers' time goi ...   Not quite   
David May
Sep 8, 2006, 20:24:28
 
"With most of these tools the signal to  ...   Misstatement?   
Tony OBryan
Sep 8, 2006, 20:36:06
 
When Firefox crashes(very rarely) on me  ...   How's this...   
kelaklub
Sep 8, 2006, 21:02:37
 
This doesn't sound like very constru ...   Why criticize?   
Don Brock
Sep 8, 2006, 21:50:22
 
I can understand his point that these to ...   you still have to do the hard yards   
wildpossum
Sep 8, 2006, 22:52:14
 
I find myself having to use IE often bec ...   It's really buggy   
Marc Perkel
Sep 9, 2006, 01:05:58
 
When you say "http refresh" do you mean  ...   RO: It's really buggy   
GreyGeek
Sep 9, 2006, 18:37:48
 
I have to agree with those suggesting Fi ...   Real buggy   
George Emery
Sep 13, 2006, 16:47:34
 
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