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.
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