From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 16 18:56:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB7E106566C for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:56:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f235.google.com (mail-pz0-f235.google.com [209.85.222.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEAD58FC15 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk24 with SMTP id 24so18517pzk.3 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:56:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <44d44n8c27.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Received: by 10.86.221.7 with SMTP id t7mr56160fgg.14.1255719390351; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <001485eb070a3316e5047611f42b@google.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:56:30 +0000 From: utisoft@googlemail.com To: Lowell Gilbert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Firefox FORBIDDEN for a while now.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:56:32 -0000 On 16 Oct 2009 18:48, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Chris Rees utisoft@googlemail.com> writes: > > Since firefox 2.* has so many vulnerabilities, isn't it about time to > > upgrade completely to firefox 3? The software's been out for over a > > year now (AFAICR), so why are we so reluctant to change it? > Gecko support. We have most of the infrastructure to switch to > something else (I think xulrunner is the preferred provider), but > apparently not yet all. > Nobody should be using firefox 2 for a browser. That's the answer I was looking for! Thanks. I figured there would be a good reason. Chris