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Re: Firefox 2 EOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Wed Dec 17 13:47:24 2008
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:46:17 -0500
To: "Kenneth Arnold" <kcarnold@mit.edu>
We are planning to update to Firefox 3 in the upcoming 9.4
patch release for IAP. (A Firefox 3.0 RHEL-4 RPM is now
available).
Bob
On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Kenneth Arnold wrote:
> Mozilla just released the final 2.x release; no more security updates.
> This means unless we backport patches, we could be running vulnerable
> Fx2's in all the clusters until the Ath10 transition.
>
> I tried once to get Fx 3 working on Athena 9. It seems like it could
> work, given the right libraries and some ld hacks. There used to be a
> static build, which would have worked nicely.
>
> refs:
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
> https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/12/16/
> firefox-305-and-20019-security-updates-now-available-for-download/
>
> -Ken
