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April 8, 2005
Mozilla Readies Firefox Security Update
I'm so proud of the work that's being done over at Mozilla, they have really taken this initiative very seriously. They are going to provide a solid and security browser, no matter what they've got to do to do it. It's in stark contrast to the Micro$oft approach of waiting till a problem has spawned a couple hundred viruses to exploit a hole. I'm excited to see how this one comes down. I'm still hoping that they have figured out a way to avoid the massive reinstall process, but I doubt they've figured that out yet, but either way, expect next week that the Micro$oft owned talking heads will start bringing up the fact that there are inappropriately large number of security updates coming out for Firefox, and then remember that Micro$oft now hides it's less pressing (fewest viruses for) security updates to be hidden in bundled quarterly and monthly normal service updates. While Mozilla has taken the wiser approach of getting the fixes out as quickly as they can to protect their users from any sort of danger. It's a different mindset that most of us have gotten used to over the years using computers.
Read more here.
Posted by ManDrake at April 8, 2005 2:10 PM
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