Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Firefox bloat (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:34:10
Message-Id: 9abcdf52-7170-dfb8-52b1-74ca9d8016d7@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1 by Kent Fredric
1 On 08/31/2016 01:28 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 03:46:38 +0000 (UTC)
3 > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
4 >
5
6 ..
7
8 > <offtopic>
9 >
10 > I really wish there was a way to run ancient firefox with security
11 > fixes :(
12 >
13 > I've started to really draw hate for all the new stuff they're adding.
14
15 You and me both, it is amazing how a project (actually both projects,
16 includes thunderbird as well), that were explicitly set up in order to
17 be lightweight alternatives to the suit are so utterly bloated
18 (thunderbird for some reason includes an IRC and xampp clients). It
19 makes security auditing horrible, introduces numberous issues on a broad
20 attack plane and breaks stability.
21
22 That said, little we can do about this downstream, but here is [the
23 thread last time I brought it up upstream]
24
25
26 References:
27 [the thread last time I brought it up upstream]:
28 https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2016-January/004357.html
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32 Kristian Fiskerstrand
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