LinuxWorldAu: Firefox Hit By Fewer Flaws Than IE In 2006

“To add insult to injury to IE, Mozilla developers patched
Firefox five times faster than did Microsoft’s. On average, Firefox
had an attack exposure window — the amount of time between the
disclosure of a bug and when it was patched — of just two days
based on a sample set of 26 flaws. By comparison, Microsoft took an
average of 10 days to patch the sample 15 vulnerabilities. Both
vendors’ attack windows were a day longer in the second half of the
year than in the first six months.”

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