Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?
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On 07/26/07 15:52, Erik Persson wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>> It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues
>> requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror
>> or links2.
>>
>> I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas?
>> I'm on dialup and switched to Konq for this very reason but sometimes I
>> have a website that doesn't work and its handy to see if iceweasel will
>> view it. (so far the only one is the adobe flashplayer test page).
>>
>> Doug.
>
> As you can see from the other answers, nobody has a clue if the
> mozilla-based browsers are less secure than the konq or not. I haven't
> inspected the code either, so I don't have any more facts than anyone
> else. I do NOT agree with the other answers however.
>
> If there are fewer security alerts with Konq the only reasonable
> conclusion, if you don't have strong facts pointing the other way, is
> that Konq is more secure, and that this is partly because of better
> code. The larger userbase of Firefox is very likely to generate a larger
> number of discovered security issues, but as far as I know, no one can
> tell you how many more bugs are generated per user or per extra
> programmer, and probably no one can tell you the how user base and
> security issue rate correlate more precisely. From this, the most
> reasonable conclusion is that Konq is more secure.
> Anyhow, the basic fact that there is fewer security alerts in Konq makes
> this a more secure browser, whether this maybe is because only of a
> smaller user base or not.
That's just not logical.
For example, just because people didn't know about germs in 1825
didn't mean that they didn't exist.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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