From: Alexey Mishustin <shumkar@shumkar.ru>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old Firefox ebuild?
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:06:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGWFrgvXd8qosr-1uPNQ8r9V5aDbKgcDFCX7LQyU63f78wmw1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161015234131.GF12322@g0n.xdwgrp>
2016-10-16 2:41 GMT+03:00 Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@croatiafidelis.hr>:
> On 161014-21:39+0300, Alexey Mishustin wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> 2016-10-14 21:02 GMT+03:00 Ian Zimmerman <itz@primate.net>:
>> > Does anyone have a copy of the firefox 38.x ebuild around?
>>
>> Attached.
>>
>> > The latest update wiped it out, and now if I take the plunge to the
>> > current versions (i.e. at least 45.x) and I find then insufferable,
>>
>> Agree!
>>
> I may agree too, if some facts fall into place. Read on.
>
> I was wondering how safe is running Firefox 38.x at this day and age?
>
> If you look up:
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/mozilla-checks-if-firefox-is-affected-by-same-malware-vulnerability-as-tor/
> ( continued and improved from:
> https://hackernoon.com/tor-browser-exposed-anti-privacy-implantation-at-mass-scale-bd68e9eb1e95#.ctpp9u5fl )
> and especially the Jacob Appelbaum's:
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/detecting-certificate-authority-compromises-and-web-browser-collusion
> So if you recall (some of the readers must have read those) the issues
> there, and how badly Firefox was exposed and pretty often, then my query
> is how do you assess how secure Firefox 38.x that you install might be?
>
> Regards!
Yeah, it's an usual dilemma: old version is vulnerable, new version sucks.
From my point of view, if there's a MITM, then Firefox is not the only problem.
Besides ruining the cookies management (should one install an addon
now? like Cookies Manager+?), new versions of Firefox succeeded to
hang all the OS, when I was working with Google maps (never been with
older versions).
--
Regards,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-16 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-14 18:02 [gentoo-user] Old Firefox ebuild? Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-14 18:16 ` Mick
2016-10-14 19:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-14 20:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-14 18:29 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2016-10-15 1:05 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-15 3:27 ` Kai Krakow
2016-10-15 3:42 ` Kai Krakow
2016-10-15 5:35 ` [gentoo-user] Backup [Was: Old Firefox ebuild?] Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-15 8:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-15 19:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-15 21:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-26 18:40 ` [gentoo-user] transplant /usr/portage [Was: Backup] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-26 20:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-27 1:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-27 7:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-10-28 12:53 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2016-10-26 22:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Bill Kenworthy
2016-10-15 11:22 ` [gentoo-user] Backup " Rich Freeman
2016-10-15 19:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-10-14 18:39 ` [gentoo-user] Old Firefox ebuild? Alexey Mishustin
2016-10-15 23:41 ` Miroslav Rovis
2016-10-16 9:06 ` Alexey Mishustin [this message]
2016-10-14 18:40 ` Michael Mol
2016-10-16 10:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2016-10-16 10:52 ` Alexey Mishustin
2016-10-16 18:08 ` waltdnes
2016-10-16 19:27 ` Martin Vaeth
2016-10-16 20:10 ` Miroslav Rovis
2016-10-17 0:04 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-17 9:34 ` Wolfgang Mueller
2016-10-18 19:58 ` Ian Zimmerman
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[not found] ` <CAHVfhud4-Mr+2K6c18xFTnonLuQhuO7VD5rHOS1pS+Oo8J+4+A@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-19 4:41 ` Andy Mender
2016-10-21 12:10 ` Martin Vaeth
2016-10-21 13:09 ` Andy Mender
2016-10-21 17:14 ` Ian Zimmerman
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