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• The severity of the bugs matter too.
  How often do the bugs actually get in the way? Are they easily exploitable? Do the bugs go unpatched for months on end, like the extremely critical "Microsoft Internet Explorer "window()" Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability"? What is the actual impact of the bugs?
  
  Actually, I expect that most of the time that firefox is overall more secure and less buggy. Yes it has bugs of their own. However it is not a core operating system component, like Internet Explorer is, so Firefox users may encounter fewer "system access" vulnerabilities.
  
  Last time I checked secunia, IE 6 was rated "highly critical", while firefox was rated "less critical".
  
  IE: http://secunia.com/product/11/
  Firefox: http://secunia.com/product/4227/

  February 2, 2006

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