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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:58:04 +0000

[...] Vygantas Lipskas님 글 Firefox – Browser with the Most Disclosed Vulnerabilities @ 2009.4.15에서 Secunia 2008 보고서에 대한 소개가 있고, 보고서 파일의 링크도 [...]

By: Subair

Subair — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:16:46 +0000

God bless all of you that wrote opera 9.0 & 4.2, for you guys are our messiah our so called foreigner service provider nearly kill us with thei connection charges. But with opera life is worth living. Pls send me the latest opera for pc connection cause 9.0 version is no more browsing without per pay

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:50:07 +0000

cz ff also didnt had that one counted

By: TTT

TTT — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:15:29 +0000

Speaking of IE, how come IE8 have 0 vulnerabilities according to secunia, remember that contest? Also, since when does 11+13+9 add up to 31? Am I missing something?

By: Jan Wolter

Jan Wolter — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:38:03 +0000

This is from Secunia’s annual report to it’s customers. The purpose of that report is to toot Secunia’s horn by boasting about all the vulnerabilities they have reported. They don’t disclose enough about what is being counted for anyone to assess the actual meaning of these numbers or draw any conclusions at all from them. In fact, they are obviously nonsensical. Does anyone really believe that in all the Firefox extensions together there is only one vulnerability? This is meaningless smoke from Secunia’s marketing department, and to draw any conclusion about any browser from it is absurd.

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:20:04 +0000

Scorpion,

While I agree on your point. IE has even more market share.

By: Scorpion

Scorpion — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:10:47 +0000

*shakes head* @ opera fan boys so ignorant and stuck up in their own little world. the article is damn joke, while Firefox is far from perfect at least Firefox corrects the issue and get’s it done. see Firefox 3.0.8 emergency release as an example.

if opera had a big of a market share as Firefox, they would getting hit as hard
as Firefox has. point is the vulnerabilities get’s fixed by Firefox on their end, it’s funny the article doesn’t mention that.

By: TTT

TTT — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:08:23 +0000

This is just vulnerabilities that have been found AND have been disclosed by the vendor. It doesn’t really say anything about the security of the browser.
Also, the safest browser is most definitely lynx or nc :P

@Tiago Sá
They also have this strange thing with “bundling” vulnerability reports going, which makes the counting even more unreliable :-/

By: werwolf

werwolf — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:21:07 +0000

I hope it is clear to everybody that Opera is the most secure browser on Earth.

By: Mancho

Mancho — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:04:25 +0000

This also says nothing to how severe the vulnerabilites are, as well as how quickly they are fixed. And since ActiveX is not so much a plugin as it is basic IE functionality, it really speaks more to how worthless IE is than FF. Oh, and Opera FTW!