>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:04 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carey Tyler Schug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > For browsers: > > Symantec documented 54 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet > Explorer, 40 in the Mozilla browsers, > and four each in Apple Safari and Opera. > > I thought Firefox was a rewrite of mozilla. Should that be "25 in > mozilla and 15 in Firefox" or maybe "30 in mozilla and 20 in Firefox" if > there is some overlap? Is every single exposure exactly matched in both
Both Firefox and Seamonkey are "Mozilla browsers." They are built from the same source tree, but with different icons for buttons, etc. So, any security vulnerability found in one would indeed be found in the other. There may be some small amount of code that would be in one and not the other, and which could have some security implications, so I'm not 100% sure the vulnerabilities would be in both _every_ time. But, every time I've seen a patch issued for Firefox, there has been the same one for Seamonkey. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
