-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/07 15:52, Erik Persson wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues >> requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror >> or links2. >> >> I'm curious as to why this is. Does anyone have any ideas? >> I'm on dialup and switched to Konq for this very reason but sometimes I >> have a website that doesn't work and its handy to see if iceweasel will >> view it. (so far the only one is the adobe flashplayer test page). >> >> Doug. > > As you can see from the other answers, nobody has a clue if the > mozilla-based browsers are less secure than the konq or not. I haven't > inspected the code either, so I don't have any more facts than anyone > else. I do NOT agree with the other answers however. > > If there are fewer security alerts with Konq the only reasonable > conclusion, if you don't have strong facts pointing the other way, is > that Konq is more secure, and that this is partly because of better > code. The larger userbase of Firefox is very likely to generate a larger > number of discovered security issues, but as far as I know, no one can > tell you how many more bugs are generated per user or per extra > programmer, and probably no one can tell you the how user base and > security issue rate correlate more precisely. From this, the most > reasonable conclusion is that Konq is more secure. > Anyhow, the basic fact that there is fewer security alerts in Konq makes > this a more secure browser, whether this maybe is because only of a > smaller user base or not.
That's just not logical. For example, just because people didn't know about germs in 1825 didn't mean that they didn't exist. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGqQ/xS9HxQb37XmcRAmEIAJ9jYuBKgCH8UqBl/af8cTTp07s1EACgzfQI K43lCcCEtIpwz7MUIVlmX68= =hR9W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
