Valuable Articles and Commentary - Development
This document is a collection of thoughtful stories that are factually accurate and favorable or at least fair about Firefox. The goal here is to help highlight when people are telling the Mozilla story as well as to build a repository of stories and writers that "get it".
Also, being familiar with this collection of stories should help Mozilla people better tell the Mozilla story.
Entries to this document should contain the title, author, and link to the story as well as an excerpt that highlights the value of the article.
As this document fills out, there may be a need to split off individual items into discreet documents for more thorough development and tracking. Those items will be linked to in this list.
Valuable Mozilla Articles
Browser & Web Security
Time to Patch / Days of Risk
- Needed: A solid third party description of time to patch / days of risk and why this analysis is superior to simple bug counting.
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Brian Krebs on Computer Security at washingtonpost.com - Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006
This report compared the days of risk for Microsoft's IE users and Mozilla's Firefox users in 2006.
For a total 284 days in 2006 (or more than nine months out of the year), exploit code for known, unpatched critical flaws in pre-IE7 versions of the browser was publicly available on the Internet. Likewise, there were at least 98 days last year in which no software fixes from Microsoft were available to fix IE flaws that criminals were actively using to steal personal and financial data from users.
In contrast, Internet Explorer's closest competitor in terms of market share -- Mozilla's Firefox browser -- experienced a single period lasting just nine days last year in which exploit code for a serious security hole was posted online before Mozilla shipped a patch to remedy the problem.