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On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:46 -0800, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > Another thing you should be aware of: As development (and even |
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> > bugfixing) for Mozilla has ceased quite a while ago the last release |
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> has |
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> > a number of security bugs that are well known and wide open. Any |
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> program |
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> > using parts of Mozilla are therefor vulnerable as well. For that |
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> reason |
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> > you shouldn't be using Mozilla and instead switch over to Firefox or |
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> > Seamonkey. It will be removed from the tree sooner rather than |
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> later. |
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> I use mozilla without javascript, java, etc, which probably eliminates |
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> most of the security problems. |
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Ok, you use it like that. I bet there are people that don't though and |
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the mozilla team doesn't have the time/resources to fix the security |
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problems, and upstream has dropped support. If you want to continue to |
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use it with those problems, great... Dump it in your overlay and use |
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it.. Just remember it's unsupported and has security problems and if it |
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breaks you get to keep both pieces ;) |
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Homer Parker <hparker@g.o> |
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