firefox 1.0.5?

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Fri Jul 15 09:11:21 UTC 2005


hi,
Am Freitag, den 15.07.2005, 10:27 +0200 schrieb Henning Kilset Pedersen:
> But the fact of the matter remains - Ubuntu Hoary users are exposed to
> several well-known security holes in the Firefox browser - a large and
> important part of their desktop computing experience - as long as
> firefox is not upgraded to the latest version.
> 
> There will be new security holes in new versions, you can take that for
> granted. But at least those security holes are not well-known,
> well-publicized problems. The current ones not fixed in 1.0.2, on the
> other hand, are by now very well known.
thats a wrong assumption, all firefox security fixes got backported to
the hoary version, so security wise your browser is as safe as every
other 1.0.4 version out there.

this was discussed several times on this list. please see the archives
for more information.

ciao
	oli
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