Re: Why no firefox and thunderbird patches?

Chris Ridd <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2009-12-18 15:40:09 +0000, Hans Werner Strube, strube&physik3*gwdg*de said:

Whereas the old Solaris-10-special Mozilla 1.7 was patched for years,
there have not been any more patches for Firefox and Thunderbird
since 2.0.0.19 (April 3 and May 12, respectively), although there
were many security issues since then. As apparently Firefox and Thunderbird
are specially built for Solaris 10, normal upgrades seem not recommended.
Well, upgrades to 3.x can probably not be expected, but fixes of security
issues should occur. What is Sun's policy here?

How are you checking for patches?

By the semimonthly patch reports and sometimes by SunSolve's patchfinder
or PCA.

I noticed patch 125542-06 came out on 15th December, updating
Thunderbird for x86. (125541-06 for SPARC). I haven't looked for
Firefox patches, but I'm sure they exist too.

Thanks for the hint! The patch report from December 16 did not yet show
125541-06. But there is no new Firefox patch yet.

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Hans Werner Strube strube(@)physik3(.)gwdg(.)de
Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Univ. Goettingen
Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
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