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[George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com>]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:30:35 -0800
Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:

> 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.

Sure, I have wanted to try out the deprecate function in quill now.

George 


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George Sherwood
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