The Kings and Prophets in the Bible recorded their own errors or got their personal errors and mistakes recorded there in.

Today's numerous authorised [auto]biographies are mostly sugar and no salt and anybody reading them only learns to repeat by example the same errors and mistakes. Or the so called errors listed are the persons obvious mundane human limitation that everyone has.

The secrecy in software just begs to be discovered like any unauthorised biographies. If the author would tell it first like it is, it would push aside and out-scoop any attempts to embellished the truth on errors and mistakes. But if your hiding something...

Michael Jackson's Billy Jean playing in the Background: "...because the lie becomes the truth."

The crown of the open King belongs to FireFox.

The Kings and Prophets in the Bible recorded their own errors or got their personal errors and mistakes recorded there in.

Today's numerous authorised [auto]biographies are mostly sugar and no salt and anybody reading them only learns to repeat by example the same errors and mistakes. Or the so called errors listed are the persons obvious mundane human limitation that everyone has.

The secrecy in software just begs to be discovered like any unauthorised biographies. If the author would tell it first like it is, it would push aside and out-scoop any attempts to embellished the truth on errors and mistakes. But if your hiding something...

Michael Jackson's Billy Jean playing in the Background: "...because the lie becomes the truth."

The crown of the open King belongs to FireFox.

@magnus
Yes many CAN work on it, but in reality it's only a small group that does, and that group is probably smaller than the group of people working on any such project at MS.
Not that I'd scream that the speed is the issue with MS security, it's the philosophy that is I'd say.

That extensive testing and rewriting is made much faster if it is open source and people from all over the world can be involved in it. Many, many more can both identify and work on the problem.
So the same amount of work takes a lot less time with firefox due to the amount of people involved.

So fixes like this can get out much faster and the Firefox browser isn't exposed to security risks for as long a time as IE.

It is just a numbers game really...

While it may be true that many bugs Microsoft is slow to publically address, many bugs simply can't be fixed on the fly because the fixes need to be tested on a variety of systems before deployment, lest the cure be more harmful than the original problem itself. Even if a problem is identified, some bugs require extensive rewrites in order to fix that particular bug, while leaving the other functionality intact.

What's your point. ALL software has bugs. At least I can feel safe knowing that these get addressed and patched ASAP. Unlike M$ and IE. Which is informed of bugs and they sweep it under the rug as long as possible until it gets out of hand or someone blows the whistle.

... that's SIX critical bugs, not 11.

John

The browser with the holes!

11 critical, what a good innings.