Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:00:31 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: utisoft@gmail.com Subject: Re: Firefox FORBIDDEN for a while now.... Message-ID: <444opz88q8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44d44n8c27.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (Lowell Gilbert's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:48:32 -0400") References: <b79ecaef0910160935r7bf379abudd4e093d68a27f05@mail.gmail.com> <44d44n8c27.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> writes: > 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. As Rainer Hurling just reminded me in another thread, it's libxul, not xulrunner, and it *is* already the default gecko provider, as noted in UPDATING. So at least in theory, the switch has already been made.
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