The future of Seamonkey?

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Re: The future of Seamonkey?

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Hrgg3 wrote: [....] I tried to search the forum for a roadmap for SeaMonkey development, but wasn't able to find one. Is there a roadmap existing somewhere, e.g. for 2022, 2023, 2024 or feature based?
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I for one certainly hope development continues.Updates for seamonkey come at a sensible rate rather than the insane 4-6 week cycle of the so called major browsers.
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captain bligh wrote:I for one certainly hope development continues.Updates for seamonkey come at a sensible rate rather than the insane 4-6 week cycle of the so called major browsers.
though at least Firefox does have ESR releases which I use on most of my PCs and only get one major version update a year

but as for Seamonkey, that one will be updated at its own pace
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captain bligh wrote:I for one certainly hope development continues.Updates for seamonkey come at a sensible rate rather than the insane 4-6 week cycle of the so called major browsers.
Development continues indeed, albeit no faster than the few developers can make it. There is a developers meeting on alternate Sundays on IRC, currently on libera channel #seamonkey ; their minutes are archived as subpages of https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings

To download the executables, you have a choice between:
  • "Official" releases (currently 2.53.12): https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
  • "Unofficial" 2.53 nightlies by Bill Gianopoulos (currently 2.53.14b1pre), published only when there has been a change in the source (compare the file date with the "Build Identifier" at the bottom of your about: page, which is 14 decimal digits in the format yyyyMMddhhmmss): http://www.wg9s.com/comm-253/
Some 2.57 builds are being built but I don't recommend their use (they have multiple problems, including unpredictable crashes).
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?

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Lets sum it up:

November 15th, 2015
But I just had a conversation with a guy I know, and he seems to think Seamonkey won't be around much longer due to the whole xul/xpcom thing.

Posted August 3rd, 2018, 7:44 am
Well, to put it bluntly, as I mentioned here, SM doesn't have a future.

Posted May 2nd, 2019, 3:50 am
Will there be new releases? SeaMonkey is my favorite web browser and cause of history it's one of the important programs that should be saved for the future.

Posted May 7th, 2022, 1:05 pm
I for one certainly hope development continues.

Posted April 4th, 2024, 9:08 pm
I heard SeaMonkey may be on its last legs. Is this true?

Posted June 10th, 2025, 4:21 am
With Firefox now discontinued and Mozilla now developing only the the privacy toolbox for Chrome is it true that SeaMonkey will be discontinued too?

Posted August 20th, 2027, 10:13 pm
I can no longer access the new Google web with SeaMonkey! What should I do?

Posted December 8th 30000000, 3:27 am Last post before the Sun explodes.
Will SeaMonkey still work after the sun explodes?
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Thanks, f-r - that's one plucky browser suite! ;)

I wonder what computer architectures will look like when SeaMonkey and our planet near their respective end-of-life experiences... and will we still be hopefully checking the WG9s site for the latest builds? :)
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Last week I organized a giant project meeting for 16 people in 9 different locations. Files and media were passed around, it was orderly, it was secure and private, and those unable to attend received a full transcript immediately at the meeting's conclusion.

All of this was obtained using not Zoom, nor Slack, nor Teams, but this brand-new, cutting-edge technology called irc using Chatzilla in SeaMonkey released in 2005...
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kjojo wrote:All of this was obtained using not Zoom, nor Slack, nor Teams, but this brand-new, cutting-edge technology called irc using Chatzilla in SeaMonkey released in 2005...
Way to go! =D> I still really like IRC.... I wish more people used it.
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davidb_sk wrote: I still really like IRC.... I wish more people used it.
Funny you should say that, because pretty much everybody said some variation of "Wow! There are WAY more people on here than I thought there would be!" after seeing the general EFnet room list.

But then again, I think they expected to see six rooms with 2-3 users per...
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Back to the subject of this thread, "The future of Seamonkey?".

I sincerely hope that SeaMonkey maintains a bright future, but would like some thoughts on this question --> Given the increasing number of sites that won't work with SeaMonkey, is it likely that eventually very few, if any, sites will work with SeaMonkey?

Any thoughts?
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?

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Peter Creasey wrote:Given the increasing number of sites that won't work with SeaMonkey, is it likely that eventually very few, if any, sites will work with SeaMonkey?

Any thoughts?
I don't know if you've ever done any work in web dev, but there's a maxim "If it doesn't work in SeaMonkey, it doesn't need to be there"
I've moved to software dev, but I was among the web people last week and heard what appeared to be a 21/22-year-old mutter it.

So, if it stays reasonably up-to-date (as it has for the past 18 or whatever years) it will be fine.

As goes another maxim: "Cockroaches and SeaMonkey"
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kjojo wrote:Last week I organized a giant project meeting for 16 people in 9 different locations. Files and media were passed around, it was orderly, it was secure and private, and those unable to attend received a full transcript immediately at the meeting's conclusion.

All of this was obtained using not Zoom, nor Slack, nor Teams, but this brand-new, cutting-edge technology called irc using Chatzilla in SeaMonkey released in 2005...
Can Chatzilla still be installed in Seamonkey?

I could not find it.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?

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drew77 wrote:Can Chatzilla still be installed in Seamonkey?

I could not find it.
It's pre-installed. Click the "cz" in the lower left corner of the browser window

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Peter Creasey wrote:Given the increasing number of sites that won't work with SeaMonkey, is it likely that eventually very few, if any, sites will work with SeaMonkey?
It will always work on the sites I make and maintain. So, there will be at least a couple sites you'll always be able to visit as long as I'm still kickin'! :D
kjojo wrote:"If it doesn't work in SeaMonkey, it doesn't need to be there"
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?

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> Given the increasing number of sites that won't work with SeaMonkey, is it likely that eventually very few, if any, sites will work with SeaMonkey?

> Any thoughts?

Yes search the forum and enjoy groundhog day. We do what we can and that is all which has been, will be and can be stated. Use a different browser for non working sites or switch browsers.

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