Re: Firefox is just as bad
>If a piece of software has had 5+ critical vulnerabilities in a calendar year, then it's time to halt development for a security architecture review.
Windows development would halt, then, in January of each year until June or July ...
For the Linux kernel it is different, because, well, the Linux kernel is 99% drivers, most of which are compiled into kernel modules in most distributions. When a flaw in Windows affects 100% of the Windows customer base, a flaw in a driver in Linux kernel might affect 0.0001%. I am pretty sure that security issues found in drivers in Windows are reported against the hardware manufacturer who wrote the driver, not Microsoft ...
And Linux supports all hardware supported by Windows 95+, a number of drivers from the Windows 3.x days have been deprecated in Linux. Windows 7 had deprecated drivers from Windows XP era ... my Chinese noname webcam no longer worked on Windows 7....
Oh, and Edge had its first critical flaw in September 2015, +/- a month after release. Note that Edge was written by the SAME NUMPTIES who designed/developed flash ... ;-)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
