Mozilla doubles bug bounties to $10k

Mozilla has more than doubled the cash rewards under its dusty bug bounty to beyond $10,000. The browser baron has increased the reward for high-severity bugs such as those leading to remote code execution without requiring other vulnerabilities. Engineer Raymond Forbes says the bounty had not been updated in five years and …

[MJI]

If it was GUI bugs

I could afford to retire.

[James Cane]

Gosh

Firefox is still around?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the version numbers are how many minutes you can play a video before Firefox crashes. They do not seem to be in a hurry to fix it.

[Paul Crawford]

Maybe if they spent less time in pointless GUI dicking around and fixed bugs they would have less need for this?

And what about non-security bugs, like the defaulting to US Legal paper for printing on every update on the *NIX version that has been open for more than a decade?