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Originally Posted by Chris T
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.
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Couldn't have put it better myself.
Indeed, I have contributed to the Mozilla codebase with some deep http stuff, you are involved with the actual text shown on the website (AFAIK?, feel free to correct me).
The whole project is fantastic.
Could you imagine Micro$oft paying people to find bugs, being XHTML/VRML/XML/CSS 2.1 compliant, being totally secure, a sandboxed environment, supporting extensions & themes, a powerful anti-spam engine for Thunderbird, an extremely fast HTML renderer, a 4.6MB download, compatibility with any OS?
I'll just stop myself here...the fact is that IE is looking pathetic these days.
About 2-3 years ago it was OK as a browser but now it's looking just stupid, IE is a ridiculous choice to make if you have even an ounce of tech knowledge or common sense.
I can't stand using IE in work, I have to use two windows (which I really
hate since using tabs in Mozilla Suite), it's insecure, has unfriendly security settings and is critically flawed by being integrated into the OS.
What a stupid idea that was...
Time to die, IE...
