611 Defects, 71 Possible Vulnerabilities Found In Firefox

[Impotence]

"Some folks at Klocwork examined the large and complicated code base of the popular open source browser, Firefox. Overall, Firefox is a well written and high quality piece of software. Several builds were performed on the code, culminating in the final analysis of version 1.5.0.6. The analysis resulted in 611 defects and 71 potential security vulnerabilities. The Firefox team has been given the analysis results, and they will determine if or how they will deal with the issues."

Source: Slashdot.org
article: g2zero

before anybody starts bashing firefox, read the slashdot comments and the article.

 

[zeus]

whhaaa, Thats some reading. I'll have to bookmark it and finish off later.

Oh, I forgot. Bookmarks have disappeared again :doh:
And my searches. Im glad I can remember the address to this place! :)


Im not complaining though. IE has done nothing but crash on me lately. I never used to have problems with IE but its gone a bit mad now.

 

[Addis]

I'm slightly concerned over a lot of the legacy code that's still left behind by the old Mozilla codebase. IMO, as the complexity of Firefox increases, it'll become hard to fix security flaws etc. Although no expert on the Gecko engine, possibly a rewrite is needed?