Re: [gentoo-amd64] Seamonkey vs Mozilla cage match round two

[Homer Parker <hparker@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:46 -0800, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> > Another thing you should be aware of: As development (and even
> > bugfixing) for Mozilla has ceased quite a while ago the last release
> has
> > a number of security bugs that are well known and wide open. Any
> program
> > using parts of Mozilla are therefor vulnerable as well. For that
> reason
> > you shouldn't be using Mozilla and instead switch over to Firefox or
> > Seamonkey. It will be removed from the tree sooner rather than
> later.
> 
> I use mozilla without javascript, java, etc, which probably eliminates
> most of the security problems. 

	Ok, you use it like that. I bet there are people that don't though and
the mozilla team doesn't have the time/resources to fix the security
problems, and upstream has dropped support. If you want to continue to
use it with those problems, great... Dump it in your overlay and use
it.. Just remember it's unsupported and has security problems and if it
breaks you get to keep both pieces ;)

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Homer Parker <hparker@gentoo.org>

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