[lug] how secure is Netscape 6.x?

[qqq1one @yahoo.com]

OK.  And another vote for mozilla I see.

--- Peter Hutnick <peter at fpcc.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 February 2002 12:28 pm, qqq1one at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Just wondering.  NS 4.x was open source, correct?  
> 
> No.
> 
> > Not so of NS 6.x,
> > right?  I know it's based on mozilla, which is OS, but AOL/Netscape
> has
> > changed code and not released it, no?
> 
> No and no.  Some modules (like the spell checker) are not available
> in source 
> form, but but AFAIK the complete browser, mail/news, etc parts are
> available 
> just as AOL built them in source form.  I think that they stripped
> some 
> features that weren't stable enough yet.
> 
> I believe that these are available at 
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/ and are the releases
> that have 
> an extra .1 at the end of the version (0.9.2.1 and 0.9.4.1).
> 
> See http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ particularly the note that says
> that 
> NS6.2 was built from 0.9.4.1.
> 
> > What I getting at is, if there's an exploitable bug, are we or are
> we
> > not as likely to hear about it along with a patch forthcoming?  
> Anybody?
> 
> Well, you are at their mercy if you use NS6.  The simple answer to
> that is to 
> use Mozilla.  This approach gives you the side benefit of getting the
> latest 
> features and bugfixes.
> 
> If anyone has information to the contrary of anything I have said
> here I'd 
> love to hear it.  I'm not 100% confident of any of it ;-)
> 
> -Peter
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