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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 14:23:02 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=wYCGZdOPAPcn0aMqiqR-9m-0ci4QumWNvKHbduUO5UbwCiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E3B6BF6.4090801@asyr.hopto.org>

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> wrote:
> I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities.
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium
> I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrades of it (and it's
> not a small app to build).
> Why is its code so, should I say prone to bugs, compared to
> other browsers?

You've made an assumption there. Correlation implies causation?

Perhaps there's more bugs found because of the bounties paid? Or maybe
its because the code is newer than the alternatives.... I don't think
its possible to make a judgement based on the information I have.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-05  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-05  4:05 [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium Thanasis
2011-08-05  4:20 ` Matthew Finkel
2011-08-05  7:34   ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
2011-08-05 14:19     ` Matthew Finkel
2011-08-05  4:23 ` Adam Carter [this message]
2011-08-05  4:36   ` Michael Mol
2011-08-05  4:44     ` Matthew Finkel
2011-08-05  4:45   ` Thanasis
2011-08-05  5:14     ` Adam Carter
2011-08-05  5:26       ` Matthew Finkel
2011-08-05  5:44       ` Mick
2011-08-05  6:10         ` Thanasis
2011-08-05  7:36       ` Neil Bothwick

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