Firefox hit by fewer flaws than IE in 2006
And Mozilla was faster than Microsoft in releasing patches
Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox suffered from 26% fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer, a security company’s research said yesterday.According to Symantec’s tally, 40 Firefox vulnerabilities were disclosed between August and December 2006; Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, was hit with 54 bugs. Opera and Safari — the browser Apple Inc. bundles with Mac OS X — had four flaws each.
