"Critical Flaw Found in Firefox"
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well changing the cache value didn't help. after 10mins it's up to 40mb already 
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Originally Posted by WiLL
...I really wanna get out and shoot people.
Floppy Death! noES!!!
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Originally Posted by Qbacca
IE has been out longer and thus has had more vulnerabilities over time. You have no argument.
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From: CA
Originally Posted by Qbacca
Why would anyone write exploits for an unpopular system?
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Originally Posted by Qbacca
And that's with a third of IE's market share.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates with an 83.7 percent share in April, down 1.78 percent in the three month time period. Firefox more than doubled its reach, hitting the number two spot with a 10.28 percent share of the market, up 6.05 percent from January's measurement of 4.23
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Originally Posted by click sidious
Actually that's backwards. IE has been out longer, thus had much much much much much much MUCH more time to correct it's flaws, yet it still suffers from tons of problems.
Software develops over time. It does not have a preset number of vulnerabilities which disappear over time. If this was true, we would be using vastly older software than we do.
As updates and patches are added, new vulnerabilities are created These are discovered and patched, and so on.
Originally Posted by mayonaise
you're talking about the number of people taking advantage of a security problem that has already been found. that IE has more people willing to exploit it's security problems does not mean that it is less secure. it is the fact that those problems exist in the first place that makes it less secure.
Who do you think finds security problems? The most popular software has the most users finding its problems.
All software has vulnerabilities.
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Originally Posted by mayonaise
Continue to prove my point for me. A third was being generous.
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Originally Posted by mayonaise
uh, once again, popularity is not tied to security. :slap:
Exploits aren't tied to security then either, because software could be really unsecure but maybe nobody will notice :joshers:
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Let me illustrate the point that you are making, mayo.
My car is really insecure because aliens could use giant space railguns mounted on asteroids orbiting Saturn to fire small key-shaped objects directly through my window and use them to steal my car.
But then I realize that only security vulnerabilities that are actually exploited are the ones anyone gives a damn about.
My car is really insecure because aliens could use giant space railguns mounted on asteroids orbiting Saturn to fire small key-shaped objects directly through my window and use them to steal my car.
But then I realize that only security vulnerabilities that are actually exploited are the ones anyone gives a damn about.