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the latest official update of KM-1.5.4 on the download page from March 5th 2010
hm, that latest release has security problems?
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I presume that you use Windows 98, which does normally not support these newer Geckos.
No, I use Xp.
1.) There might be potential security risks for 1.5.4's GRE (MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH) - they are however not actively searched by security advisers and hackers. K-Meleon is the only project that still uses that branch. & K-Meleon has a too small market share to make it worthwhile to search potential vulnerabilities.
Some PPL that had pledged commercial support have been AFAIK feeding some more fixes into the branch so there is one potential newer GRE for 1.5.4 (GRE 1.8.1.25pre) but You have to compile it Yourself. That is hard to do - the download/pull of sources for MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH is partially broken and stops before all is downloaded. I do not know how to fix.
You can possibly look for a nightly?
2.) With XP You might consider to help testing 1.6.beta2. It is better for the community. Slightly faster JavaScript execution. Better HTML5 support. Also it includes a newer GRE 1.9.x that has better potential security.
1.6.beta2 can use the same Profile as 1.5.4. If You want native non English menus? You can get most menus to Your native language (except preferences, error console = mostly Chrome items) if You copy the folders Locales and dictionaries from 1.5.4 to 1.6beta2.
Drawbacks. Extensions are not ported yet. Some work out of the box but some do not. Must haves such as spellchecker only partly work.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2011 01:48PM by guenter.