Gregory Hicks wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:10:12 -0700
>> From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
>>
>> CAMPS wrote:
>>> Is the Mozilla browser that comes native with solaris the same as
> Firefox. Do all the same security patches apply?
>> No. The browser named "Mozilla" that comes with Solaris is the
> previous
>> generation web browser from the Mozilla Foundation, that is now
> unsupported,
>> and does not get fixes for known security holes.
>>
>> Newer Solaris releases come directly with the Firefox browser.
>
> Alan:
>
> I happen to LIKE the Mozilla SeaMonkey browser. Is there any reason
> why that cannot be used. It gets regular updates. (I wish, whoever,
> that they would update for older versions of Solaris...)
There is no reason I know of that you can't download it from Mozilla and use it.
If you like the all-in-one browser style, that's certainly a much better choice
than sticking with the Solaris bundled Mozilla browser.
You'll only get support from Sun/Oracle for the bundled Firefox browser though.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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