rolling Firefox back to 2.x
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Sep 2 13:40:14 UTC 2008
Nik N wrote:
> 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.
Yes, but many of those libraries are _equally_ sensitive. otoh, Steve
listed them as "not under the control of Mozilla", and actually two of them
are (libnss and libnspr).
Before storing such data FF in sqlite, it was stored on the filesystem. How
are the issues different?
--
derek
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