Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:06:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape/Linux on FreeBSD an other horrors ... Message-ID: <14782.14453.12323.930028@onceler.kciLink.com> In-Reply-To: <00091119231200.01827@dave> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009120151230.452-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> <00091119231200.01827@dave>
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>>>>> "DU" == David Uhring <duhring@charter.net> writes: DU> So turn off Java-scripting, visit http://www.netscape.com/ and DU> they will point you to their download site. Select Netscape for DU> FreeBSD and download it. Before installing, check in Why do it the hard way? Go to the /usr/ports/www/netscape-XXX directory (depending on which version you want) and type "make". Let the ports system do the work for you. You might need to do the actual download, but that's an easy step to do. DU> already. Keep java-scripting turned off and your Netscape DU> installation will be stable. Allowing strangers to execute I run with JavaScript on all the time without problems (both on FreeBSD and BSD/OS desktops). The trick I found is to turn off Java on both platforms (and on Linux too). DU> arbitrary java-script code on your machine is, IMHO, not very DU> security-conscious, anyway. Yes, but it makes your web experience less and less satisfying these days. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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