[SpamCop-List] Re: More Mozilla security flaws

[Blammo]

On 30 Jul 2004 eddie entered spamcop and left
news:pan.2004.07.30.16.06.02.335000 at eddie.web: 

> In a way, it's good. With Mozilla picking up a bit of the browser
> "market" any flaws will quickly be exposed. The difference is that
> Mozilla will probably fix them nearly instantly, whereas MS takes a
> month to react. Nothing on the net is secure, AFAIAC, but Mozilla is
> still safer than IE, and almost any OS is more secure (but not
> necessarily better) than XP or earlier versions of MS OSs.
> 

Because anyone can write a patch for Mozilla. If you find a bug, you can 
fix it yourself, then submit the patch to the Mozilla Foundation and they 
can accept it or not. Others can look at your patch, and make corrections/ 
improvements.
There are often many ways to fix things, or add new features, you don't 
always need to recompile the source, sometimes just some Javascript, CSS or 
some simple XUL will do what you want.
Everytime I upgrade I add my own little custom patches.

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