Why all the children love both Mozilla and Gamera
Yesterday: Panic and shock! Seems a bunch of unscrupulous blokes at a hacker convention managed to find a security hole in Mozilla-based browsers! In short, the hole let ne'er-do-wells spoof domain names in your browser. The address may say Paypal.com, and even have an SSL certificate, but really points to a lookalike site ready to siphon your precious moneys away from you. In the proprietary world, pulling dastardly stunts like pointing out flaws might have resulted in a lawsuit. How dare they point out problems with the program! Do you know how much business could be lost because of that?

The Mozilla community barely batted an eye. Within hours, a temporary fix was posted telling users how to tweak the hidden settings in Mozilla to disallow the hack. About 12 hours after, the Firefox and Mozilla dev teams had an update ready to patch the problem for good.

See kids? This is how you win silly things like browser "wars". I now urge you all, if you aren't running Firefox, (or Safari, or Mozilla proper, or etc etc etc) what's stopping you? It's free, has more features, is more secure, and in general, just plain better.  ¶ 1:10 p.m.