Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Apple Releasing a Windows Browser

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 6/12/07, Jerry Gamblin <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> It only took Dave Maynor and the Errata Security guys (among others)
> just a few minutes to find the first security flaws in this browser.

I know nothing of the Windows version, but I can get the OS X Safari
3.0 beta to crash spectacularly doing some very ordinary things. Which
is, I guess, why they call it beta.

> Not getting into the whole why don't they report them to Apple first
> thing (you can ask the Errata guys about their disclosure policy on
> this), I wonder why would Apple open themselves up to this.
>
> http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/06/niiiice.html

I actually don't believe the stuff they say late in the message, but
there's no question that this version of the beta is buggy, and (in my
opinion) too buggy to hand out very widely.

Which is a shame, because Safari 3.0 (beta) is very clearly faster
than the current production version. On the bright side, to the extent
that the speed comes from changes to the WebKit stuff which is open
source and used in Konqueror (among other projects), this should
eventually help more people than just those who use Safari.

jking

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