rolling Firefox back to 2.x

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/9/2 Nik N <niknot at gmail.com>:
> Just counting third-party libraries is kindergarten-level software
> engineering: its the function these components perform that matters:
> there is substantial difference between, for example, font rendering
> and permanent storage of sensitive data.
>

Firefox2 stored you sensitive data in text files. Please tell me how
that is more secure than sqlite.

Furthermore, Microsoft released a security bulletin for MS Windows
computers in December 2005 / January 2006 that all MS Windows users
should _not_browse_the_internet_at_all_ due to a zero-day exploit in
one of their image-rendering libraries. For six weeks Windows users
were not to browse the internet, on MS's orders. Of course, no one
outside the security field is familiar with that because it happens
all the time and is not news: in 2006 there were over 180 days -
that's half the year - when a known, unpatched exploit was present in
the wild. I mention that particular one because it concerned an image
library, which you deem to be so safe.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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