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Firefox's security coming under scrutiny
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-05-12

Mozilla developers say that the browser had security built into the design, but that has not stopped flaw finders from pinpointing problems with Firefox.

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Firefox's security coming under scrutiny 2005-05-12
Matthew Murphy (3 replies)
Firefox's security coming under scrutiny 2005-05-15
Coldman
> Firefox, as a standalone component, is more easily isolated from the rest of the system (e.g, by running it under different user accounts).

IE (and anything else) is also easily isolated, by running it under different user account. This is all about "good practices" and security awareness of the users.

BTW, what you call "tight integration" is nothing more that heavy reusing of (shared) components - it is not any different to shared libraries in *ix systems.

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Firefox's security coming under scrutiny 2005-05-13
Anonymous (1 replies)
doesn't surprise me 2005-05-13
mmm
Firefox's security coming under scrutiny 2005-05-13
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