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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by bmon on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:45AM (#15089001)
Likely because Firefox is shipped as default on a lot of distros.
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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by gcp on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:03AM (#15089355)
It used to be 30k for Firefox vs 80k for Chrome, though.

I'm thinking it's a combination of being the default, Firefox just having enabled the sandbox on Linux, and it being the base of the Tor Browser (which means Firefox exploits can sometimes be used against Tor too).

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