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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:20:50 -0600
George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com> wrote:

> Is there any one that is still using mozilla?  It hasn't been updated
> in a long time and I am not sure it will even build.  When seamonkey
> 1.1.13 was release this is the message from the devs:
> 
> "Today, the SeaMonkey project released a new version of its
> all-in-one internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.13 closes several security 
> vulnerabilities</a> and fixes several smaller problems found in
> previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey stays at the same level of
> security as its sibling Firefox 2, which is issuing updates for the
> same problems this week as well.
> 
> The SeaMonkey team urges users of older SeaMonkey versions, including 
> the SeaMonkey 1.0.x series, which no longer receives security
> updates, to upgrade. Additionally, the team continues to strongly
> urge people still using the old Mozilla Suite or Netscape 4, 6 or 7
> to upgrade to the new SeaMonkey 1.1.13 version. All these older
> software packages suffer from a large and steadily increasing number
> of security vulnerabilities because they are no longer being
> maintained. SeaMonkey 1.1.13 is a modern, drop-in replacement,
> providing the same familiar suite functionality with additional
> features and fully up to date security."
> 
> 
> I would vote to remove it from the grimoire.  Any other thoughts on
> this?

Seconded. :) Though perhaps we should just deprecate mozilla and
install seamonkey, as upstream recommends.

-sandalle

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