full-disclosure - [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox

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From: heikki at osafoundation.org (Heikki Toivonen)
Subject: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox

bkfsec wrote:
> Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider wrote:
>> Firefox is not intgrated to the OS, because it doesn't have an OS.
>> Its just a trimmed Mozilla for windows..
>>  
> Not exactly... it's a mozilla core in a native application, as opposed 
> to an interpreted XUL front-end.  It's a bit faster in both GNU/Linux 
> and Windows.

Not exactly ;) Mozilla Firefox does use XUL for it's front-end.

There are browsers that do use the native controls instead of XUL while 
still leveraging the Gecko layout engine to display HTML, for example 
Camino for Mac OS X (http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/).

-- 
   Heikki Toivonen

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