[loginusername]

What difference does it make what small software program I am using?

You do not believe such a program exists?

Or maybe you want to critique the program? That would be typical commenter behavior, but it is totally irrelevant to the discussion.

The topic is Microsoft software and the relationship between code size and probability of security flaws.

[wvenable]

> What difference does it make what small software program I am using?

You brought it up and now you don't want to say, I find that odd. It's hard to have a conversation if you're going to be so.. cryptic.

> Or maybe you want to critique the program?

Maybe I want a significant example of a "small program". At this point, neither terms have been well defined. You called the program used to make your comment "small" so tell me what it is.

> The topic is Microsoft software and the relationship between code size and probability of security flaws.

The greater the code size the greater the probability of bugs. And security flaws can be exploited utilizing the combined flaws across different independent programs or included libraries.

My point is the only programs so small that security issues are a non-issue are either not interesting or combined with other programs to do something useful.

[loginusername]

"The greater the code size the greater the probability of bugs."

Right. I think we are done here.

Microsoft Windows is larger than any OS I know of, and only keeps growing.

To answer your question, I am using a text only browser that's based on the links project, with my own minor modifications.

I still have no idea why you and the other commenter are asking. It seems quite clear neither of you have any legitimate interest in such programs. Otherwise you would not be challenging my statement of such a simple fact as the quoted sentence above, as it applies to Microsoft.

I strongly disagree that "small" programs are not useful. As I have previously stated, I use them every day. I use programs such as sed and netcat to interact with the www even more than I use a browser.