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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:20:55 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Whither Mozilla ?
Message-ID:  <20021026022055.GA91294@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <60227.1035571709@monkeys.com>
References:  <60227.1035571709@monkeys.com>

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:48:29AM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Could someone please answer the following questions for me?
>=20
> #1)  What happened to the FreeBSD/Mozilla project?  Google still has
>      some pages cached for this project, but the whole thing seems to
>      have disappeared from the www.freebsd.org web site?

It is basically unnecessary.

> #2)  Is there anyplace where I might be able to download a working
>      binary of a reasonably recent release of Mozilla that would run
>      OK on a FreeBSD 4.3 system?  (I don't have time to upgrade this
>      box to a newer FreeBSD rev just now.  To0 many other things going
>      on.)

I don't know of anywhere you could find this.

> #3)  In lieu of #2, is there anyplace where I could download sources
>      for a reasonable recent (and reasonably stable) version of Mozilla
>      that I could build (without having to spend a full day futzing with
>      it) on FreeBSD 4.3?

It might "just work", but I wouldn't put any money on it.

> #4)  Is it just me or is Mozilla (and also Netscape) remarkably unstable
>      and prone to frequent total crashes on _any_ flavor of UNIX?

It's either just you, or at least not me :-) I run it on all my
systems, and it hasn't crashed in months.  Netscape is a piece of crap
and always has been, but mozilla (>=3D1.0) is great.

Kris

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