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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: Unpatched security vulnerabilities in GNU IceCat
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> 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-es=
r/
>
> 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 =E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6, we now have another m=
odern web browser:
epiphany.  I recommend using that until IceCat 38.x is released.

      Mark