#30 The link you're referring to includes security advisories for ALL Mozilla Foundation products, not just Firefox. 3 of those advisories don't affect Firefox so that leaves us with 40 which can be broken down as such:
20 Critical
7 High
8 Moderate
5 Low
all of which have been patched. Let's take a look at Secunia for 2006 as well and let's include the criticality as the raw numbers alone are mostly meaningless unless of course we're comparing sizes - unless of course you'd prefer 10 critical bugs to 100 low ones!
<b>Product Vulnerabilities Unpatched</b>
Firefox 7 (0,4,0,1,2) 2 (0,0,0,1,1)
IE 12 (1,5,1,4,1) 5 (0,0,0,4,1)
Opera 2 (0,1,0,0,1) 0 (0,0,0,0,0)
so based on that we should all be using Opera! So aside from the raw number of vulnerabilities and their criticality the only other thing to look at is how long it takes a vendor to fix said bug. This sort of information, as you can imagine, is a lot more difficult to retrieve for closed source software as the vendors like to announce a vulnerability once they've had time to work on a fix, but eEye gives us a slight glimpse:
Microsoft (AD20060509b - Low) - 210 days
Microsoft (AD20060509a - High) - 210 days
Microsoft (AD20060110 - High) - 163 days
Microsoft (AD20051213 - Medium) - 204 days
Microsoft (AD20051108b - High) - 224 days
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So Opera has the best security record, IE has the worst (along with a vendor that takes it's sweet ass time releasing patches) and Firefox is somewhere in the middle but with a very rich library of extensions, themes etc.
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