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Jmillar
It surprises me that work is still going on on a supposedly vulnerable platform: 1.9.1.x. Is B2dot4 safe for daily use? Is it just a development version leading to a more solid and reassuring future? Is it suitable for normal use without courting disaster?
I put together beta 2.4 version. I picked that one over the KM 1.7 because the history worked. It has slightly newer version Gecko engine than the original KM 1.6 beta version. I am not a coder. I just put together pieces which were made available to me by others. The privacy DLL was recompiled and works better than the original. I was told the actual code did not change.
You are right that the engine is well past its end of cycle time. Mozilla does not any longer produce a Microsoft Foundation Class version of their Gecko engine. Unless we can find a coder who can make a MFC version of a current Gecko engine, I do not see any way forward.
I have not been plagued with malware using Beta 2.4, but that may be more a function of how I surf the net than the browser in use. I do use Policy Manager and my default is Javascript off. I find, more and more, that I have to send certain pages to IE now because the site is using HTML 5 code.
Hanlon’s razor is an eponymous adage named after Robert J. Hanlon that states: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.â€
JamesD