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Originally Posted by Richard M
The difference here is that the Mozilla Organisation pay people to reward them if they discover critical flaws.
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The other big difference is that an attack on a Mozilla product is not an attack on a big corporation, it is an attack on the entire open source community. A lot of people worldwide feel that they 'own' a part of this browser. That means that when exploits are found (and I'm not stupid enough to think they won't be), a million software developers around the world will immediately jump on it. Result = not only a browser that's less buggy to start with, due to the extensive peer review that is an inevitable part of doing things open source; but a browser whose good health is the concern of a lot of people who are in a position to fix problems quickly.