Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

[Heikki Toivonen <heikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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