Comments on: Happy Birthday, Firefox

By: Foo

Foo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:39:31 +0000

They allow a subset of HTML. I can’t find an official list of tags that are allowed by default, but I found this instead:
http://zeo.my/overwrite-comment-allowed-tags/

By: Daniel Hendrycks

Daniel Hendrycks — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:02:52 +0000

Do they allow BBcode in these comments or HTML?

By: Thoe

Thoe — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:07:59 +0000

Congrats for being the most insecure web browser actually.

Just counting the number of vulns doesn’t tell you which browser is the most secure, duh.

By: Foo

Foo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:46:00 +0000

An upgraded cake were released in Japan.

By: Foo

Foo — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:30:23 +0000

Having the most public fixed issues doesn't equate to being insecure. Having open issues, like how IE used to (and still does?) have open vulnerabilities for weeks is insecure. Also, you might want to read the "Beware the Security Metric" post and its comments on the Mozilla Security blog. All security through obscurity does is to give a false sense of security. The largest security threat, as usual, is an uneducated user.

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:04:28 +0000

In my mind: yes and no. While hackers can find security flaws, at the same time, community can also find and fix them. So it’s one of those debatable situations.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:25:26 +0000

Congrats for being the most insecure web browser actually. *-*
The only thing that could make I use FF for something would be Echofon and DownThemAll extensions. But I don’t use it… I control myself to do not use it. :D

FF is open-source, hackers can simply view the source code to find security fails, or am I wrong?