We talk many times about security issues in browsers and vulnerabilities and how it affects the user security, but there is an information that we generally miss when we talk about vulnerabilities, bugs and the fixes available, which is the vulnerability time.
There is nothing wrong when a security issue is found in a software or another, after all it’s human. But the most important is the time between the vulnerability detection and the release of new version or patch. It’s very different if a browser have been vulnerable for 10 days or 365 days. The chance of vulnerability get exploited is very small.
This is a positive point for open source software against proprietary software and another reason for choosing Firefox Vs IE, when you hear that Internet Explorer have been unsafe for 284 days in 2006, that’s huge compared to 9 days for Mozilla Firefox.
Read more at the Washingtonpost blog
