Apparently the grass is not always greener–at least, not as green as it looks–on the other side of the fence. Firefox has been found to have some serious vulnerabilities that have been declared “extremely critical”.

Please read: Zero-Day Firefox Exploit Sends Mozilla Scrambling.

It was laughable when Microsoft suggested that people remove Microsoft as a trusted publisher for installing software on IE. Unfortunately, Mozilla’s situation is no less ludicrous, suggesting that users disable JavaScript, and Mozilla’s update sites are redirected to stop exploit code from targeting the vulnerabilities. What a mess.

Truly it can be said now that Firefox is no panacea to the web security world that some people–perhaps with skewed perspectives–might have thought.

Respected companies like Mozilla and Apple are not some think tank giants with impervious code. They will be making mistakes just like Microsoft has and does. As long as they scramble to fix the security flaws and work hard to avoid future ones, I’ll continue to have respect and confidence in them, because they’ll be doing more than Microsoft does.