Microsoft Offers to Help Firefox Devs Port Code to Vista

rivereye · Future Admin (Posts: 5546)

Could this be too good to be true?

KermMartian · Site Admin (Posts: 64056)

Not only that, they'll probably introduce a ton of security holes in the process. Razz

proegssilb · Advanced Member (Posts: 206)

Nay; Mozilla is VERY strict about that type of thing... Ask astronouth7303 about it sometime, if you can get to him... From what I understand, it's almost scary

Kllrnohj · ☢ PH34R |\/|3 (Posts: 8196)

Of course its true, and it makes alot of sense. Aside from it being a competitor to Microsoft, it is a very popular 3rd party program. Microsoft would rather remove an obstical to people paying $200-$300, than to try and choke out the competition in what is basically a $0 market (when was the last time you payed to download either IE or Firefox?)

As for security holes, vista will have them, firefox and IE already have them. It is nearly impossible to code a 100% secure program without having it be bloated, slow, and have very few features. Having said that, Vista should prove to be much more secure than XP is, especially in regards to things like rootkits and kernel access....

kirb · Expert (Posts: 608)

I find that one thing to help security is coding simply. The biggest thing with OS and browsers is that they have to have backwards support. As long as access to sensitive data is restricted and user input is monitored or kept track of in some way, security is held up. With all the ugly HTML, mismatched tags, broken CSS, and everything else that people think should go into a page, more things have to be allowed and that opens more holes. Then again, I haven't been programming security-sensitive things for too long, but this shouldn't be too far off.