Re: Mozilla 1.6 support

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 11:39 -0800, Brian Thomason wrote:
> I see that in the latest version of galeon unstable, 1.3.18, support for 
> mozilla << 1.7 has been removed. 
> 
> We will be using moz1.6 in our dist for the foreseeable future, and it 
> would be nice if we could keep galeon up to date as well.  Was there a 
> major reason support was dropped?

Yes, we have huge amounts of problems keeping on top of the mozilla API
changes, (just in 1.7.5 there are problems with mailto links and images
on the myportal page).

To give you an idea of the problems we have, just between 1.7 and
mozilla trunk there are 17 API changes that we need to track and make
sure that we don't break compatibility. I seem to recall that there was
a huge number between 1.6 and 1.7 as well.

We will always track the latest stable release of mozilla, and versions
later than that. Mozilla 1.4 was stable, and now mozilla 1.7 is the new
mozilla stable branch (they don't back port security fixes to 1.6).

Sorry, but you just won't be able to port the current galeon sources to
mozilla 1.6, due to some huge string handling changes that have landed
in our code after support for 1.4 -> 1.6 was dropped.

I would definitely recommend you reconsider not shipping 1.7.x, 1.6 has
lots of known security flaws.

Crispin



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