Fedora ain't playin' around w/Firefox 3.

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Wed Jun 18 14:30:03 UTC 2008



David Boles wrote:
> Scott wrote:
>> This is new....
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/static/firefox/
>>
>> I wonder what brought this on...
>
>
> That sounds like, to me, that Mozilla and Fedora are providing you 
> with a reasonably safe and secure Firefox browser. If you chose to add 
> third party software to Firefox, Flash for example, and it breaks your 
> system or opens you up to outside attacks you get to keep the 'pieces' 
> and the 'bugs'.  ;-)
>

Those settings are not specific to the Firefox version provided by 
Fedora (I don't use the version provided by Fedora downloads...too 
messed up typically).  FireFox3 has those even with the version 
downloaded from Mozilla so I'm not sure why there would be that 
disclaimer on the Fedora site.

Kevin




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