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September 15, 2006
Firefox tightening
Firefox tightening: Looks like upcoming browsers will not do what today's versions do... from Mozilla's new security chief: "'We want to reduce the overall risk [to Firefox] by evaluating where there are unused features, and then getting rid of that old code... If we find a parsing routine that was built ages ago to manage file formats rarely used now, where the potential for vulnerability outweighs the value of the feature, we can benefit by getting rid of that code,' she said. That doesn't mean Firefox will be regularly torn down and rebuilt from scratch, but it might mean stripping out code or shifting older features to optional installs rather than leaving it in the general code base." There's another stat towards the end that I hadn't heard elsewhere: "Most of our users are at home, and with automatic updates turned on by default, we can get 90 percent of our base updated to the next version in about 8 days." Some quick searches for corroboration don't return clear results.
Posted by JohnDowdell at September 15, 2006 02:17 PM
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