Re: Iceweasel in Squeeze and security
FireFox 3.x is pretty useless at this time. (Iceweasel 3.5 on Debian 6.0)
Youtube doesn't work - Adobe don't support Linux anymore, and WebM is
not supported either in FFox 3.x and in Squeeze. And the Open-Source
Gnash is a crash.
GMail - works in limited mode (basic HTML).
Googe Maps - fails to render.
Facebook - works.
Vkontakte (Russian facebook) - gives me Javascript errors.
So... we do have a serious problem with Web 2.0 sites and Debian 6.0
(Iceweasel 3.5, and no amount of patching can fix it).
I _do_ recommend using FireFox 17 ESR. (or latest Google Chrome, if
you don't mind some non-free software).
-Alexey "Technologov"
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Jan Ingvoldstad <frettled@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
>>
>> > They have to be really old to be unusable. My guess is that Firefox 3 is
>> > still usable
>>
>> Nope. Well, not 3.0 – 3.6 maybe.
>>
>> I’ve got Firefox 3.0 and Opera 9 on an old BSD install (the latter
>> in the Linux emulation), and Firefox adds almost no value relative
>> to Opera *and* ProPolice often kills it due to buffer overflow
>> prevention.
>
>
> I think you're side-stepping the point here.
>
> To refactor:
>
> even though a browser is so old that it has horrendous security
> vulnerabilities (i.e., it is from last week), it may technically work for
> displaying and navigating websites for a casual user, giving the illusion
> that they are still usable.
>
> "Firefox 3" was an example. Showing that the example, under some conditions,
> is not a good example, does not work against that point, sorry.
> --
> Jan
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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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