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Originally Posted by BlackCatXIII
What do you mean by "pre-mozilla-netscape syndrome".
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Pre-mozilla-netscape syndrome is what was going on with Netscape before it merged with the Mozilla Trunk. Back when netscape was 4.x and such, it had such a small internet footprint that that number of people researching vulnerabilities for it were sizably small. Therefore, it had security holes, but nobody was really gutting the program to find them. The blackhat community was equally "nobody uses it, no use exploiting it". This is the semi-state opera is in. Iirc, during the month of browser bugs, a few were found by using manglers/fuzzers. Still, since 80% of the world uses IE, 80% of the browser research is on IE.