This user may simply be raising a legitimate concern. I certainly hope so and it is something to keep in mind. But their tone was of putting to the point that I began to suspect they are not really Linux user at all, just an employee of that Gate$ fella, saying behave children and come away from that Puppy he's been playing with a Penguin and you don't know what virus' and stuff he may have caught.( Hope I'm wrong )
After all one of reasons I'm leaving M$ in first place is that the only information I got was "This is a critical update to prevent someone running malicious code on your machine." No mention of the fact that in 9 out of 10 cases my Firewall was already doing this for me. Not an exact quote but near enough.
Mozilla 1.8 is UNSAFE ????
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Just nine out of ten? So 10% of the time you had people running malicious code on your machine?
Sounds like Windows to me
I've heard the argument that you just need to spend a couple hours per week maintaining Windows, but why bother when you can spend a couple hours to set up Linux and never have to worry about it again.
Sounds like Windows to me
I've heard the argument that you just need to spend a couple hours per week maintaining Windows, but why bother when you can spend a couple hours to set up Linux and never have to worry about it again.
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The one update out of ten that was worthwile didn't even attempt to patch a security hole. It just improved intergration with other programs already on my computer. As for malicious code due to the age of my old PC I could not run a current firewall towards the end , so who Knows how bad it was.
PI
199Mhz
32 MB Ram
Glad I have finaly upgraded.
Now I just need a decent modem and I can plug the window for good.
PI
199Mhz
32 MB Ram
Glad I have finaly upgraded.
Now I just need a decent modem and I can plug the window for good.
Must have windows installed in my head. 
Well, Barry needs the source tarball to compile Mozilla/SeaMonkey as he wants it. Good news though, the SeaMonkey Suite is a few days away from releasing a public beta (which would include another source tarball).