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General Software Discussion / Re: Bad news for Firefox: Hackers claim zero-day flaw in it
« on: October 02, 2006, 08:50 PM »
Yeah, yeah http://developer.moz...reported-at-toorcon/
The bug-hunting reward should be seen in light of how Bugzilla works and who they know are likely to find bugs. Those are busy people, developers, extension makers - nothing more than a pad on the back and probably more directed at delivering good documentation and follow up. Selling to spammers have nothing to do with reward.
I really dont think main stream media should put such security debates up on front page. They always twist it so it becomes a question of am I now safe using X or Y? Complete nonsense. Way too many eat it up and believe there is a direct link between a headline and internet security.
No-script = giving up if you use for what could be called "general safety", or dont dare enter internet without it enabled. The reason Firefox was made in the first place was certainly not to make user have to barricade them self, more like the opposite. Nothing to do with the extension but if it really was needed, in real life, you would have 2 browsers to pick between, Firefox would die very fast.
The bug-hunting reward should be seen in light of how Bugzilla works and who they know are likely to find bugs. Those are busy people, developers, extension makers - nothing more than a pad on the back and probably more directed at delivering good documentation and follow up. Selling to spammers have nothing to do with reward.
I really dont think main stream media should put such security debates up on front page. They always twist it so it becomes a question of am I now safe using X or Y? Complete nonsense. Way too many eat it up and believe there is a direct link between a headline and internet security.
No-script = giving up if you use for what could be called "general safety", or dont dare enter internet without it enabled. The reason Firefox was made in the first place was certainly not to make user have to barricade them self, more like the opposite. Nothing to do with the extension but if it really was needed, in real life, you would have 2 browsers to pick between, Firefox would die very fast.
his own words, heh. He dont skip features thats for sure but not as bad as he says. An example could be sessionsaving. TMP can will not save content in forms or textareas like this Im writing in right now. TBE does that which makes it 10 times more complicated. TMP authors and the guy behind sessionsaving in FF 2.0 say so. Content is saved over and over. File monitor will show. TMP and 99 out of 100 users are happy with 99% restoration hit rate, TBE goes for 100.