Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3

Joe Altman freebsd-announce at chthonic.com
Sat Oct 22 20:06:23 UTC 2011


On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 09:28:40PM +0200, Beat G?tzi wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:54 AM, Joe Altman wrote:
> > Greetings...
> > 
> > I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox
> > 3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was insecure and
> > therefore deprecated while FF7 was recommended and secure.
> > 
> > My questions:
> > 
> > 1) is the dependency libxul has for FF3 a security problem?
> 
> libxul doesn't depend on FF3. 

Got it. Thanks, and best regards,

Joe


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