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> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 18:51, Gary <xheralt@yahoo.
> <mailto:xheralt%
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>> I don't care how much y'all hate FF3.x, reverting to FF 2.x is a
> security breach waiting to happen, and the *worst* frakking advice > to
> give someone.
>
> When's the last time you had a box rooted?
>
Never.
> Thought so. FWIW, I've run FF 2.x for a very long time on multiple
> machines, multiple Linux distros and with sometimes very heavy net
> usage and have never, ever had even one attempted intrusion via a FF
> exploit, such as there are.
I'm still running Firefox 2 on this (my old RedHat RHEL 3) machine. I
never upgraded to v.3 because I never encountered any problems with
v.2, and with my LAN sitting behind a PF packet filter, I have a
(perhaps unwarranted) fair degree of confidence in my abilities to
stay one or two steps ahead of the bad guys (I really work at it, on a
daily basis).
RHEL3 is pretty much at the end of its life cycle, now, and this
computer, which I built back in 2004, is 'old hardware' (PIII, SMP),
so I will probably be replacing the mainboard, processors, power
supply, graphics card, RAM, etc., and installing a fresh OS, in early
2010.
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