Researchers Say Google Wants To Undermine Firefox’s Growth

Remember the study by Accuvant, which concluded that Google Chrome is the most secure web browser?

NSS Labs, a California based company that publishes web browser security results of its own, has issued a statement, which claims that Google is pretty much on its own now and has already done some dirty things to undermine Firefox’s and other web browsers growth.

Who would have thought a nice benevolent corporation like Smersh Google would have turned out to be pure evil?

What does Mr Bigglesworth think about this?

 

Already covered here (https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1990288&postcount=66) by Mr. Bazinga , I think. Or maybe it's just my OCD acting up again.

 

Damn! I knew someone would beat me to it. Either way, it's worth it just to use the words 'Google' & 'evil' in the same sentence. Well, that & giving Mr Bigglesworth a bit of a plug. I think he needs it now as his career seems to be in the sandbox.

 

Maybe this is a better follow-up.

 

Or this? I have a feeling I read it quite some time ago.

 

No, I doubt it.

 

That's more like it!

 

Interesting since this is what Firefox's on security devs have to say:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=314708

NSS Labs' response is hilarious and full of "We do studies better than Accuvant!" This was not an attack on teh study, it was them trying to say they're the better research group because Accuvants study conflicted with theirs.

 

Nice spin ... but no cigar.

 

Yep, I'm sure the Firefox devs were trying to spin the study when they agreed that its main point was accurate. Right?

 

NSS Labs is just jealous (not to saying something else ) that Google didn't pay them.

 

lol and we know from past experience what happens when NSS labs gets paid...

I read that NSS Labs thing a few days ago (posted in the other topic) and I found that while a few of their points were absolutely legitimate the bulk of it was them saying "We're the better security research company."

They haven't. Google does use reputation though, which is separate.

NSS Labs actually knows this and acknowledged it in another study, which makes it even funnier.

 

But I'm not sure their paymasters gained anything positive from their "independent" studies.

 

Yeah, but this is more interesting IMO: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1992272&postcount=3

 

Yes, that was interesting.

"The Mozilla security team would love to block outdated plugins ... " op cit

I don't know why the Microsoft .NET Framework plug-in isn't totally removed from Firefox; SeaMonkey-style. You (AFAIK) can't update it in Fx, so why keep it at all?

 

Is it still around? I don't have it at all in my Firefox (9).

 

^Gone here also on FF 9.0.1.

 

I've just checked my add-ons manager (Fx 9.0.1) & it is there right at the bottom with the Java console 6.0.30. Both are disabled by default I believe. Although sometimes when I get updates the .NET Framework Assistant claims to be 'out of date' & appears with other extensions/add-ons that need updating. This sometimes upsets my Add-On Update checker extension & I have to re-type it into the extension's 'exclusion' box in its settings. The SeaMonkey Council removed it completely. Probably a wise move. I don't know why I still have it & everyone else appears not to. Mind you, mine's the British version of Fx, maybe it's something to do with driving on the left-hand side of the road?

EDIT: The .NET Framework Assistant appears to be absent from Fx 9.0.1 on my desktop (Win 7 64 bit) machine. Hmmmm ... curiouser & curiouser ...

I'll have to have a butcher's hook at the portables in a bit, first I'll make a cup of tea though.