On 6/9/06, David Eisenstein <deisenst@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 02:36:13PM -0500, David Eisenstein wrote:
>
>>It mentions a bunch of vulnerabilities (all of which seem to affect
>>Seamonkey, Thunderbird, and Firefox). After looking at each VU#, it appears
>>that none of the announcements mention the Mozilla suite. Also, at least as
>>of last night, none of them mention any CVE #'s.
>
>
> No updates for Firefox for Fedora Core yet, either....
>
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194617>
>
I heard a rumor the other day that Red Hat Enterprise Linux may be planning
to replace Mozilla with Seamonkey in their currently-maintained distros. Am
wondering if there is any truth to this rumor? Also wondering if there is
anything we in Fedora Legacy can do to help in this process of dealing with
these critical Mozilla/Firefox/Seamonkey bugs?
Nothing rumour-ish about it. From the Taroon list:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8 *Beta* Availability Announcement
...
- Important: Browser re-base from Mozilla to Seamonkey
The Mozilla Suite has been replaced by Seamonkey, the internet
application suite from the Mozilla Foundation that includes a Web
browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML
editor. Users of the Mozilla Suite are advised to transition to
Seamonkey, which offers the same application functionality and
shares the same "Mozilla Application Suite" codebase as the legacy
Mozilla Suite, which is no longer maintained by the Mozilla
Foundation and subsequently will not be regularly updated for bug
and security fixes.
While this change has no immediate impact on users other than
securing the long-term availability of security fixes, it
introduces substantial changes to the Browser API and ABI.
Therefore, applications that depend on those APIs (for example,
browser plugins) may need to be upgraded as well. Current Firefox
plugins will work with the Seamonkey Navigator Web browser.
Fedora Legacy bug for these issues:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194440>
Congrats to Fedora Extras for getting Seamonkey packages out already! :)
Regards,
David
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