As Firefox supporters, we always argue that Firefox is a better and more secure browser over Internet Explorer. More secure in the sense of less security flaws, I suppose. Somehow this argument is not right based on statistical data provided by a security advisory service, Secunia, at least for this year, 2005.

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The report in the UK-based IT trade publication states: “There have now been more flaws in the Firefox browser this year than in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.”

Secunia advisories affecting Mozilla Firefox 1.x on a month-by-month basis.

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More Attack On Firefox Than IE This Year

As I’ve just mentioned yesterday, you do not have to wait for too long.

Firefox 1.0.6 is freely available !!

This latest version of Firefox comes just exactly 1 week after Firefox 1.0.5 was released. The release of Firefox 1.0.6 is to patch the flaw due to API changes in 1.0.5 unintentionally broke some extensions. For more information, please read the release note.
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Firefox 1.0.6 Released

Just days after the latest release of Firefox 1.0.5, Mozilla Foundation is going to release Firefox 1.0.6 as early as next week. This is due to the API changes in 1.0.5 unintentionally broke some extensions, which have caused some incompatibility between the browser and web-based applications. That’s why some of your old extensions cannot be used in the new Firefox 1.0.5. A test builds of Firefox 1.0.6 has already been released for developers to test.

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“It’s a very small percentage of Firefox users that are affected by this directly, but there is a growing number of people building applications, content and extensions that rely on the [browser] platform,” Mozilla’s director of engineering, Chris Hofmann said.

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Firefox 1.0.6 Is Coming Our Way Next Week

It’s like a twin happiness to seeing news regarding the released of new version of Firefox 1.0.5 and the increase its market share to 8.71%.

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NetApplications.com, an Aliso Viejo, California, maker of applications for monitoring and measuring Web site usage, said this week, Firefox increased its market share to 8.71%, up from 8% in May 2005, while IE’s share shrank to 86.56% from 87.23%.

According to NetApplications.com, since the beginning of 2005, Firefox has increased its market share every month between 0.5 percent and 1 percent, mostly at the expense of IE. Besides, as Firefox approaches the 10% market share milestone, it is expected to gain “significant traction” once its acceptance grows among corporations.
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Firefox Increased Market Share

Hey guys,

The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday, July 12, 2005, released Firefox 1.0.5, the latest version of Firefox browser with several vulnerabilities fixed. This should be another boost to Mozilla Foundation as Firefox, a better alternative browser to Internet Explorer, has already surpassed 70 million download mark, in less than 3 months after going past 50 million mark !!! Come join the 70 million safely protected web surfer now, by clicking !!

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“This is a collection of security bug fixes and stability improvements,” said Chris Hofmann, Mozilla’s director of engineering. “We’re also trying to anticipate some potential security problems with this update by patching vulnerabilities that alone aren’t that significant, but might be used together to create an exploit. Most of them involve quite a bit of user interaction.”

Another great news is similar updates for Thunderbird and Firefox 1.1, codenamed Deer Park will be available very soon too !! Firefox 1.1 will be the first version of the open-source browser to offer an internal software update mechanism that doesn’t require a complete download and re-install to upgrade the code.

Download Firefox 1.0.5 now :

Update:
I’m now sailing using Firefox 1.0.5 !!

IE Blog just announced some job vacancies in Microsoft as Programming Writer for Internet Explorer (IE). This is their newest open position is for a Programming Writer position for work on the SDK documentation for IE7.

At the same time, Mozilla is also hiring Software Engineering for the famous Firefox browser as well. This might be the step to cover the lost of a few key developers in Mozilla who have already joined Google in the past 6 months. At first, Ben Goodger & Darin Fisher in January, 2005. Then we saw Brian Ryner joined Google in March, 2005.

Looks like, more and more web browser developers are needed for each browser company to sustain their competitiveness. So, anyone interested in joining one of them.

p/s: Quite surprisingly, I saw a Get Firefox! link in the IE Blog. LoL