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Story: IE trumps Firefox in Microsoft safety study

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It's not the number, it's the size.

The security bugs in Firefox tend to be (not always) theoretical ones that get fixed. The exploits in Internet Explorer tend to be real ones already out there and in use by websites.

Without close examination of the actual exploit, the numbers are meaningless. One would have hoped that a Microsoft executive had some intelligence to work this out, obviously not.

I remember when the browser was separate from the operating system, it was just another application and far more secure as a result.

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