firefox2 module should be removed from moonbase
Auke Kok
auke at foo-projects.org
Sat Jun 27 17:43:55 CEST 2009
Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> firefox2 is old and dangerous because it is not security patched anymore.
> Mozilla abandoned it in favour of firefox 3. I would like to remove firefox2
> from moonbase due to security reasons (nobody should use it anymore).
>
> 1. If you have any application which uses firefox2 engine you can switch to
> seamonkey module which uses the same engine like firefox2 (and library files).
> Only GUI is different. Seamonkey is up to date and secure.
>
> 2. If you really have to use firefox2 move it to zlocal so it will be still
> available for you when it will be removed from moonbase. Tell me if any
> application requires it - I will try to help you with conversion to firefox 3
> or seamonkey.
>
> I'm going to remove firefox2 after 30 days since today if Lunar developers
> will not decide otherwise.
go ahead with this, no need to wait much longer IMO
Auke
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