Re: mozilla-1.7.5 query

[dsavage@peaknet.net]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 19:28 -0600, Casey Boone wrote:
> security fixes are the main difference and some other bugs cleaned up
>
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:19:44 -0600, bntly_rhds <bntly.rhds@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > does anyone know what is the big diference between mozilla-1.7.3 and
> > .5?  also, i used 'yum' to install mozilla, and it installed
> > mozilla-1.7.3 by default.  is there anything better to *.5?  and should
> > i be downloading the tarball of that version and install it, or wait for
> > rpm.livna.org to update their stuff?

Mozilla 1.7.5 also has hidden support for Microsoft's proprietary
"document.all" Document Object Module extension to Javascript that's
common to Microsoft IIS web sites and code written with Microsoft tools.
The 1.7.5 release still can't handle ActiveX (IMHO only a complete fool
would want to).

-- Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
Fedora Core 3 kernel 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 on a P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
"Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
                         -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov

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