Re: Unpatched security vulnerabilities in GNU IceCat

[Mark H Weaver]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> I've pushed an update to the GNU IceCat 31.8 package in GNU Guix that
> fixes some of the security vulnerabilities fixed upstream in Firefox ESR
> 38.2, listed here:
>
>   https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/
>
> Unfortunately, I was not able to backport all of the fixes mentioned
> there, because some of the underlying code has changed dramatically
> between versions 31 and 38.

[...]

> I don't expect anyone to fix these problems in version 31, so we're
> probably stuck until GNU IceCat 38.x is released.  Hopefully that will
> be soon.

Thanks to the efforts of 宋文武, we now have another modern web browser:
epiphany.  I recommend using that until IceCat 38.x is released.

      Mark