:: Re: [DNG] Firefox-ESR and XUL
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Author: dev1fanboy
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CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Firefox-ESR and XUL
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating keeping iceweasel around or that devuan takes on extra work to solve the problem. It's just worth knowing that XUL will eventually be dropped so we can't expect it for much longer in devuan.

Cheers,

chillfan

On Friday, July 1, 2016 3:04 AM, 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.
>
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