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I'm doing pretty okay with Safari 4.1 on my PowerBook running 10.4. What exactly is "bit rot", are the magnetic particles on my disk going to grow mold?
by minikites 14y ago
I'm doing pretty okay with Safari 4.1 on my PowerBook running 10.4. What exactly is "bit rot", are the magnetic particles on my disk going to grow mold?
- runn1ng 14y agoSecurity issues, most likely. Plus new HTML features, but they are secondary.
- eli 14y agoBut isn't Safari 4.1 still supported by Apple? The issue isn't the age of the codebase -- it's whether anyone is still bothering to patch known security issues!
- minikites 14y agoFrom Wikipedia: Safari 4.1.3 is the final version for Tiger as of 18 November 2010.[9] Despite not having received security updates since then, Tiger remains popular with Power Mac users...
- eli 14y agoYikes. Surely there have been security bugs discovered since then, no? I wouldn't use that browser.
- batista 14y agoSort of. Cosmic rays, for one. And bad sectors. But, half-joking aside, it's dangerous to run old browsers with no security updates. It might not have bitten you, and it might never bit you (like how you can run off a red light lots of times and you might not crash into anyone). That doesn't make it less dangerous than running a browser WITH security updates.