[Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?

2004-11-10 Thread dk
Aside from all the (TM) issues with Mozilla I was wondering if anyone has scrutinized these builds from Moox? http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/ -- dk ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Paynter
On Wed, November 10, 2004 10:58 am, dk said: > Aside from all the (TM) issues with Mozilla I was wondering if anyone > has scrutinized these builds from Moox? > > http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/ I wonder why somebody would branch just to do performance improvements? Why not just work with the moz

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?

2004-11-10 Thread Stuart Fox \(DSL AK\)
> > I wonder why somebody would branch just to do performance > improvements? Because people want their browser to perform quickly? > Why not just work with the mozilla team and apply the changes > to the source tree? It's not like he's adding features and > the team didn't want them because

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?

2004-11-10 Thread dk
Eric Paynter wrote: I wonder why somebody would branch just to do performance improvements? Why not just work with the mozilla team and apply the changes to the source tree? Well a cursory look at the forums suggest that there is indeed a performance gain, and a bit of a following to these buil

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?

2004-11-11 Thread TK-421
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:10:48 +1300, Stuart Fox (DSL AK) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You probably are being a little paranoid, although I prefer to run the > binaries as distributed by the supplier (I of course trust that they > haven't included backdoors, and they have compiled it sensibly. For m

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?

2004-11-11 Thread Michal Zalewski
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, TK-421 wrote: > Yes, but because it's open source, you know that thousands of eyes are > looking at it daily. Especially in larger projects like > Mozilla/Firefox. Riight, 220 MB of sources. On a daily basis, just how many people with source code audit experience are despera

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?

2004-11-11 Thread Todd Towles
Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird > builds. Anyone looked at these yet? > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, TK-421 wrote: > > > Yes, but because it's open source, you know that thousands > of eyes are > > looking at it daily. Especially in larger projects like > > Moz

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?

2004-11-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:42:54 CST, TK-421 said: > Yes, but because it's open source, you know that thousands of eyes are > looking at it daily. Especially in larger projects like > Mozilla/Firefox. I'm sure you'd hear about it if the Mozilla team was > including backdoors. That is unless you thi

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet?

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Paynter
On Wed, November 10, 2004 4:10 pm, Stuart Fox \(DSL AK\) said: >> Why not just work with the mozilla team and apply the changes >> to the source tree? It's not like he's adding features and >> the team didn't want them because they would add to bloat. [...] > Because it doesn't look like he's actua