SeaMonkey 2.33/2.33.1 have been released!

[rsx11m]

SeaMonkey 2.33 and 2.33.1 have been released!

Official announcement and release notes:

• http://www.seamonkey-project.org/news#2015-03-10
  http://www.seamonkey-project.org/news#2015-03-23
• http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.33/

New features and fixes:

• http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.33#new
  There is no longer a dedicated page for the changes made for each milestone. Instead, the release notes contain bugzilla links for both SeaMonkey and code shared with Thunderbird.

Security fixes:

• http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html#seamonkey2.33.1

The list of known vulnerabilities hasn't been updated for SeaMonkey 2.33 yet. As a reference, Firefox 36 fixed 17 security issues, 2 of which were critical.
SeaMonkey 2.33 fixes 14 vulnerabilities, 3 of which were critical.
SeaMonkey 2.33.1 fixes 2 more vulnerabilities, both critical.

[rsx11m]

Before someone asks, SeaMonkey 2.33 includes the additional fixes for which Firefox 36.0.1 was released.

[raj_bhaskar]

I noticed that 2.33 contains privacy changes to "prevent tracking activities by known websites" (Prefs -> Privacy & Security). Does anyone know how this works? Is there a master list of sites somewhere where we can see what's blocked?

[Pauliemon]

My norton antivirus acted up on this upgrade. Sonar alarm or something. Had to do a little work to get this to install.

[ElTxolo]

SeaMonkey 2.33 has been released!
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Cheers!

[vladmir]

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releas ... onkey2.33/
"Support for the -remote command line option has been removed."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... te_command
Remote Control
-remote remote_command
This feature was not available in Firefox 36.0 but was restored in 36.1 see bug 1080319

SeaMonkey-2.33 about:
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33

SeaMonkey-2.33 seamonkey.exe
Product version: 2.33
File version: 36.0.1
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Is this info about "-remote" in SM 2.33 correct?

[Zerebralus]

I noticed that 2.33 contains privacy changes to "prevent tracking activities by known websites" (Prefs -> Privacy & Security). Does anyone know how this works? Is there a master list of sites somewhere where we can see what's blocked?

a good question I use Ghostery, so can this one used too?

[rsx11m]

The Tracking Protection feature works similar to the Safe Browsing feature. Just click the Help button in the preference panel:

• Prevent tracking activities by known sites: Check this to instruct SeaMonkey to actively block connections to websites which are known* to provide tracking services. You may not see any content coming from these sites in the web page visited.
  <snip>
• Tracking prevention actively blocks content known to be used for tracking in a web page. Thus, the page may appear incomplete. Such sites are identified by periodically downloading a list of known tracking sites which are to be blocked if enabled. Tracking sites not on that list will still be connected to until they are listed.

*Implying: Sites which are not known and thus not listed can still track you (but may be caught by ghostery instead if you have it, assuming no interference).

"Support for the -remote command line option has been removed."
Is this info about "-remote" in SM 2.33 correct?

Agreed, I've left a note at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1132298#c4.

[rsx11m]

"Support for the -remote command line option has been removed."
Is this info about "-remote" in SM 2.33 correct?

Agreed, I've left a note at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1132298#c4.

The release notes have been updated and that item removed.
(if you check, it may take a while until changes propagate...)

[vladmir]

OK.

[Skynet1]

Norton Sonar removed SeaMonkey when updating to 2.33. Had to reinstall 2.32.

[Pauliemon]

Norton Sonar removed SeaMonkey when updating to 2.33. Had to reinstall 2.32.

When you try to install 2.33 , soon as u get that error, click on the norton icon, and you should see a way to ignore the error. Thats what I did. I remember a few versions ago, something similar to this happen.

[Skynet1]

Norton Sonar removed SeaMonkey when updating to 2.33. Had to reinstall 2.32.

When you try to install 2.33 , soon as u get that error, click on the norton icon, and you should see a way to ignore the error. Thats what I did. I remember a few versions ago, something similar to this happen.

Thanks for the info. Norton 360 offers a restore & exclude in the Security History for the file. I may give that a try this weekend as I use this laptop for my work.

[hesmith1029]

This update just download to my computer this afternoon. When I restarted SeaMonkey Norton scanned it and declared everything to infected Heuristic 120. As of now I have SeaMonkey operational. Please submit your updates to the major security vendors so they can certify them clean. Please post the correct MD5 hashes so I know I have the correct files.

[LoudNoise]

Please use a AV this isn't notorious for giving false positives and breaking things when software updates. Given a week, Norton will update their database and the problem will go away.

Heuristic 120 is both meaningless and mostly gibberish. Heuristic is a form of preemptive security-- it means that there was not match in the database of a known problem but that the program looks suspicious. With most AV software, this means that software does something odd. Symantec/Norton it usually means that there has been a change in the program.

Run the SeaMonkey exe on Virus Total, a service that will have it scanned by a number of different Anti-virus programs/ https://www.virustotal.com/ You find that a vast majority won't make a peep about it.