Re: Iceweasel in Squeeze and security
On 27-06-13 13:06, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> 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.
So far I know you can use Youtube with Iceweasel 3.5, but my experience
is a few months old. There are older computers with an AMD processor
what cannot use the latest Flash version, but you can use an older
version of Flash.
Adobe does support Linux flash, but only with security fixes.
And they support the pepper-API what Chrome is using.
> And the Open-Source Gnash is a crash.
Gnash from Wheezy is useuable for Youtube, but not for most other video
sites.
> 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).
You don't give many good examples, and I don't have good examples too.
But I know there are too many sites what does not work anymore, or are
too slow because of javascript.
With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.
> 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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Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen
http://www.vandervlis.nl
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