Firefox, which is by all accounts and measures a superb Web browser, recently celebrated its 25 millionth download. Yes, you read that right - Firefox has been downloaded twenty-five million times, and in large part this is due not only to its excellent user interface, but also, in general, providing a much more secure browsing experience than, say, Internet Explorer.

Of course, it’s also been said that one reason that Microsoft products are so hellatiously leaky security-wise is because, with the enormous market-share that Microsoft has, it is the biggest target for hackers, virus-writers, and other packet-sucking scum.

Perhaps there is some truth to that, and equally some truth that Firefox’s increased market-share means that it will come under closer scrutiny from people in the security industry, as well.

And thus it was that this week it has been reported that two new vulnerabilities have been reported in Firefox, even version 1.0.3, which is the latest…

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