By Tom Espiner
Published: Tuesday 20 September 2005
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Anonymous
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England
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IT Manager
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Seeing as Firefox is multi platform and not even officially on version 1.5 there are bound to be some issues.
IE is not multi platform (I know previous versions were available on the Mac as well) and it is now on version 6.
Does this mean IE is 6 times more secure? No.
Also there are bounties by Mozilla/Firefox to encourage people to seek out security issues and other bugs. This should mean that most major bugs will be fixed sooner, so the fact there were more found is the last 6 months isn't a surprise.
This should drop off and when MS release IE 7 then their figures will undoubtedly change.
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