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On the flipside, a frequently updated browser that is constantly improving is a bit of a moving target. Because of the ease for them to push out updates, vulner
by gtaylor 13y ago
On the flipside, a frequently updated browser that is constantly improving is a bit of a moving target. Because of the ease for them to push out updates, vulnerabilities can be fixed and pushed out to the vast majority of users in short order. Malicious people may only get a few days/weeks to wreak havoc at a large scale, as the vast majority will have updated shortly after the problem is fixed.
In Forefox's case, the frequent releases more have to do with rapid improvement and iteration than anything. Read the changelog and notice how it was largely a bunch of mid-moderate improvements. Some CSS goodies, some JS goodies, some security goodies.
- fabrice_d 13y agoNote that we don't wait 6 weeks to push security updates when there is any serious issue. We do "chemspill" releases in these cases to fix the problem as soon as possible (usually less than 2 days after it's reported).
- gtaylor 13y agoAnd I am thankful for this! You guys do great work.