Apparently, the contest was won by a boy of 12 years from the United States named Alex Miller. He managed to find a critical flaw in the memory when the program runs.
"Mozilla is very dependent with contributors like him to survive," said Brandon Sterne, Security Program Manager, Mozilla, quoted from the site San Jose Mercury News.
According to Sterne, as a nonprofit organization and open source projects, finding Miller was elected a valuable input for Mozilla.
Alex himself is a loyal Firefox user. Previously, he had tried to find another gap in Firefox, but less so big discovery. He was tried again.
Alex spends 90 minutes every day in front of a computer screen staring at each gap that exists. Finally on the tenth day, she got it. He had the right took prize money.
Alex was not a random child. The kids his age are usually still sitting in the base class. While at this time, Alex had been sitting in the middle of Grade 7 and take the level of preparation for the University.
According to his mother, Alex understands programming to learn it themselves. Besides infatuated with computers, she likes sports and likes to pluck feathers tepok guitar.
He also discussed various political issues such as people aged 40 years. Alex was studying Mandarin, and he also plans to participate in the Physics Olympiad by building a robot project.
However, get a prize check of U.S. $ 3,000 did not make the dark eyes of a child. He even donated some gifts to nonprofit organizations animal lover near her home, Unconditional Love Animal Rescue. He also intends to provide Christmas gifts to the family of that money. The rest she will save it to the bank.
What is clear, she teaches the kids his age, that money could not only be sought by way of shining shoes, or jobs that often do the children of his age. Now the boys of primary school age can also earn money by mastering computer programming.
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