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by masklinn 5771 days ago
> Do you think so little of the vendors that you believe they won't want to fix an error in a widely-used security-critical OS component?

Considering he never said that... no?

> Do you think so little of the ability of the Mozilla team to communicate on the details on a matter of platform security?

Pointless, that'll still get them blamed.

> And if you're rolling your own code for common tasks, there will still be issues. You'll all of them, too. And you'll have a much larger project.

You have a larger project but you control all the variables, or as many as you can anyway. And you can handle everything on your schedule, you don't have to depend on a third party which may or may not play ball with you (and may have absolutely no interest in playing ball).
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nanairo 5771 days ago
> Pointless, that'll still get them blamed.

How are they doing now with Flash? Any record of users complaining with Firefox for a Flash bug?

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masklinn 5771 days ago
> How are they doing now with Flash? Any record of users complaining with Firefox for a Flash bug?

Uh yes? Users complain about the browser when Flash crashes it, why do you think Firefox finally moved Flash to an external process, following the lead of Chrome and Safari (and MSIE?). Sure Flash having no 64b support plays a role, but it's not like most users realize it when Flash is involved in making their browser burst in flames or crawl to a halt.

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nanairo 5770 days ago
Sorry, I meant security bug, not crashing in flames bug. :)

Often you hear of some security flaw in this or that program that requires Microsoft or Apple to patch the OS. When those happen, are people demanding a fix from Microsoft/Apple or Mozilla?

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