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by IainIreland 1622 days ago
> Then pwn2own decided not to include Firefox in another year hacks because Firefox made no improvements at all in previous 2 years.

Uh, [citation needed]?

Firefox was a valid target in Pwn2Own 2021: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2021/1/25/announcing-...

Nobody attacked Firefox successfully, but that's hardly a point against it. I don't know what "made no improvements at all in previous 2 years is supposed to mean", either, since we had just released a major overhaul of the optimizing compiler a few months before Pwn2Own: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/11/warp-improved-js-performan....

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2016.

> One change in the 2016 event is that the Mozilla Firefox Web browser is no longer part of the contest.

> “We wanted to focus on the browsers that have made serious security improvements in the last year,” Gorenc said.

https://www.eweek.com/security/pwn2own-hacking-contest-retur...

>Uh, [citation needed]?

Literally provided citation in my comment above.