sidyadav - 2:32 pm on Jul 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

I think the reason for IE being "slow" at recovering vulnerabilities and holes is simple: they have no reason to be dedicated.

Because if you look at Opera, it gets money with the people who want those ads to be removed -- so it indeed is a dedicated browser-only company and must have a team who work on discovering/fixing bugs, vulnerabilities, whatever.

If you look at Mozilla, being open source is an advantage for them -- they have their own community where they actually discuss in public, their own bugs and eventually someone comes with a fix for it.

But IE?
1) It's not open-source
2) It's not shareware

So which indeed gives them a valid reason for not being "at-it" as fast as the others.

Sid

[edited by: sidyadav at 2:37 pm (utc) on July 12, 2004]