Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:19:58 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Dominic Parry <dom@dude.dsl.ru.ac.za> Cc: freeBSD-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape Message-ID: <20010602141958.A27751@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20010602125454.A692@dude.dsl.ru.ac.za>; from dom@dude.dsl.ru.ac.za on Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:54:54PM %2B0200 References: <20010602125454.A692@dude.dsl.ru.ac.za>
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 12:54:54PM +0200, Dominic Parry wrote:
> Hi
>
> What is the problem with Netscape?
>
> :/usr/ports/www/netscape47-navigator # make
> ===> netscape-navigator-4.76 is marked as broken: Has a serious security
> hole, use 4.77 instead.
>
> Is anyone looking into fixing this?
Not really; Netscape Communications have not bothered to release 4.77
for BSD/OS (or, for that matter, for FreeBSD). The FreeBSD port
maintainers cannot update the port to 4.77, until there actually *is*
a 4.77 version for BSD/OS :)
For the present, your best bet is to install Linux emulation, and
use the www/linux-netscape47-{navigator,communicator} ports.
This way, you'd even gain more, because there are quite a lot more
plug-ins for the Linux browser than there are for the BSD/OS one.
(I guess it might even be possible to run a Linux plug-in on a BSD/OS
browser binary under Linux emulation, but I wouldn't bet on that..)
G'luck,
Peter
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