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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Firefox-ESR and XUL
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 04:04:35 +0200
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 02:32:46AM +0100, dev1fanboy wrote:
> > Just want to point out Firefox ESR has now made it's way into
> > Jessie, along with many bloaty features like pocket and eventually
> > no XUL.
>
> Yeah, pocket and such suck.
>
> But, do you volunteer to sponsor and organize a team of security
> people to keep old versions of Iceweasel up to date wrt security
> issues, both announced and those silently fixed while refactoring/etc
> the code?
>
> Yes, a team, as browsers have a ridiculously massive attack surface.


I thought the list had declared Palemoon a reasonable substitute for
Firefox and Chromium. I've been using it ever since you guys started
talking about it, and I'm quite pleased.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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