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:TechWorld: Now HP Says Ditch Netscape
TechWorld: Now HP Says Ditch Netscape
Jul 2, 2004, 14 :30 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (7984 reads)

(Other stories by Matthew Broersma)

"Internet Explorer isn't the only browser companies are being urged to drop due to ongoing security problems. Hewlett-Packard is now also recommending users erase AOL's Netscape browser from their hard drives due to a hair-raising list of 'potential' vulnerabilities allowing denials of service, information leaks, unauthorised access and remote malicious code execution.

"In an advisory issued on Monday, HP said it will no longer support Netscape for its HP-UX version of Unix, and urged users to switch to Mozilla, the open-source project on which Netscape is based..."

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Related Stories:
Slate: Are the Browser Wars Back?(Jul 01, 2004)
The Register: CERT Recommends Anything but IE(Jun 29, 2004)
Editor's Note: RIP, IE(Jun 25, 2004)


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Mozilla versions still report their vers ...   Mozilla needs to fix their version numbering   
Joe Buck
Jul 2, 2004, 16:41:47
 
Now, if certain huge institutions, such  ...   Browsers....in Linux, Mac...   
febb
Jul 2, 2004, 18:10:16
 
I have no doubt that HP recommends repla ...   The article is largely FUD   
ac
Jul 2, 2004, 18:53:05
 
...back in 1998, maybe????  ...   The last version of Netscape for HP-UX was...   
Ron Johnson
Jul 2, 2004, 19:15:51
 
HP really said it is recommend to dump N ...   Dump ancient Netscape 6.x, not Netscape 7.x   
E J
Jul 3, 2004, 17:05:30
 
If HP is recommending replacing Netscape ...   Why Not IE   
Abe
Jul 5, 2004, 15:02:33
 
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