Firefox sercurity questions

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Sunday 29 May 2005 08:15 pm, D. Hageman wrote:

> I think these questions are the reason why the firefox distributed by
> Fedora/RedHat have the update feature disabled.

Mandrake has it disabled too.

The good news is that distributors such as RedHat often find and fix the 
vulnerabilities before they distribute their packages, so that even  if the 
aparant version number is not the same as the one patched by the developer, 
the package has in fact been patched.

There have been some grumblings in the Linux press that Mozilla should get 
it's act together when it comes to Linux releases.  Their installers no 
longer represent acceptable practices when it comes to modern distributions.

Mozilla has a long tradition of resistance to user feedback though - it's all 
about new features!