The future of Seamonkey?
- LuvKomputrs
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
And more progress being made towards a stable release!
Me thinks it'll be very soon!
SeaMonkey/Releases/2.48b1
KUDOS to ALL who have kept our beloved browser alive!
Me thinks it'll be very soon!
SeaMonkey/Releases/2.48b1
KUDOS to ALL who have kept our beloved browser alive!
- LuvKomputrs
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
And now... SeaMonkey Project News
SeaMonkey 2.48 Release Notes
*This is for the beta release version*
KUDOS to ALL who are keeping our beloved SeaMonkey browser ongoing!
SeaMonkey 2.48 Release Notes
*This is for the beta release version*
KUDOS to ALL who are keeping our beloved SeaMonkey browser ongoing!
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Some stuff needs to be "transplanted" from the beta to the release channel to get 2.48 final out, see bug 1351984. In parallel, work is moving forward to release 2.49.1 from the ESR channel, that's bug 1346939.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Running 4.84b1 now .
Just switched back to SeaMonkey after leaving it (Sorry guys) for a while for TB+FF, but I can't seem to stay away from Mozilla suite (aka SeaMonkey).
Really glad to see progress being made and I think it's a great idea for SM to switch to ESR, it'll make applying security updates much easier!
SeaMonkey is so close to being perfect but:
- Enigmail, please stop crashing my SeaMonkey when I re-open mail window (aka, close it, open it and SM hangs!) - Addon bug (only happens when Enigmail is enabled), not SM bug, but still a pain in the butt xD.
- CardDAV, TB has addons for it, but SM doesn't really have any working alternatives.. would love to see a built-in CardDAV Sync one day! For now I manually export / import my contact lists from my email servers to SM.
- Sync, can we get sync working again? Even if it's just bookmarks only for Firefox Mobile?
- Timely security updates, ESR should help with this a lot.
- Official Linux x86_64 builds, while there is an unofficial version, it'd be great to have official versions!
If all that was done, SM would simply be perfect!
Just switched back to SeaMonkey after leaving it (Sorry guys) for a while for TB+FF, but I can't seem to stay away from Mozilla suite (aka SeaMonkey).
Really glad to see progress being made and I think it's a great idea for SM to switch to ESR, it'll make applying security updates much easier!
SeaMonkey is so close to being perfect but:
- Enigmail, please stop crashing my SeaMonkey when I re-open mail window (aka, close it, open it and SM hangs!) - Addon bug (only happens when Enigmail is enabled), not SM bug, but still a pain in the butt xD.
- CardDAV, TB has addons for it, but SM doesn't really have any working alternatives.. would love to see a built-in CardDAV Sync one day! For now I manually export / import my contact lists from my email servers to SM.
- Sync, can we get sync working again? Even if it's just bookmarks only for Firefox Mobile?
- Timely security updates, ESR should help with this a lot.
- Official Linux x86_64 builds, while there is an unofficial version, it'd be great to have official versions!
If all that was done, SM would simply be perfect!
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
All here, please have a look at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3029957
Update to 2.48 release, it's still waiting for l10n signoffs I think.
Update to 2.48 release, it's still waiting for l10n signoffs I think.
- LuvKomputrs
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Am using 2.48b1 with no issues at all.
Was wondering if perhaps 2.49 will be released instead of 2.48 at this point in time.
Am eagerly awaiting the next stable release!
KUDOS to ALL that have kept our beloved browser ongoing!
Was wondering if perhaps 2.49 will be released instead of 2.48 at this point in time.
Am eagerly awaiting the next stable release!
KUDOS to ALL that have kept our beloved browser ongoing!
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
>> Am using 2.48b1 with no issues at all.
Don't worry. There are a few including a very bad crasher when composing email. But if you have not run into this one yet you won't
>> Was wondering if perhaps 2.49 will be released instead of 2.48 at this point in time.
Was discussed but we want to do a final gtk2 release. And there is now everything in the tree but:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368277
which needs an UX review. Without it geolocation prompting is broken. As usual real life interferes with SeaMonkey so the release has not been built yet. In the mean time use Adrians unofficial 2.49.1 if you run into problems. The final 2.49.1 whenever it comes will manually install over it with (usually) no problems.
FRG
Don't worry. There are a few including a very bad crasher when composing email. But if you have not run into this one yet you won't
>> Was wondering if perhaps 2.49 will be released instead of 2.48 at this point in time.
Was discussed but we want to do a final gtk2 release. And there is now everything in the tree but:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368277
which needs an UX review. Without it geolocation prompting is broken. As usual real life interferes with SeaMonkey so the release has not been built yet. In the mean time use Adrians unofficial 2.49.1 if you run into problems. The final 2.49.1 whenever it comes will manually install over it with (usually) no problems.
FRG
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
I have run several times into a crash when moving mail to archive (Shift+A), it never happened in 2.46, is this a known bug? I have submitted the report through the crash reporter.frg wrote:Don't worry. There are a few including a very bad crasher when composing email.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
> I have run several times into a crash when moving mail to archive (Shift+A), it never happened in 2.46,
I didn't find a specific bug or crash report. Could you post a link to a crash or a crash id.
A lot of checks were added to Gecko in the last versions. As a result a lot needed to change in the SeaMonkey and Thunderbird mailnews component. I think its overall more stable now but 2.48 might still have a few rough edges. 2.49.1 seems to be much better here.
FRG
I didn't find a specific bug or crash report. Could you post a link to a crash or a crash id.
A lot of checks were added to Gecko in the last versions. As a result a lot needed to change in the SeaMonkey and Thunderbird mailnews component. I think its overall more stable now but 2.48 might still have a few rough edges. 2.49.1 seems to be much better here.
FRG
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/ ... fd80170612 and https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/ ... e2c0170618frg wrote:> I have run several times into a crash when moving mail to archive (Shift+A), it never happened in 2.46,
I didn't find a specific bug or crash report. Could you post a link to a crash or a crash id.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Hmm probably:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314347
Fixed in 2.49. Need to check if we can uplift this for 2.48.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314347
Fixed in 2.49. Need to check if we can uplift this for 2.48.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Any changes for the GUI for future releases of SeaMonkey?
Not a major overhaul so-to speak. But, something a little new and fresh of years of having the same look for the browser.
This wouldn't require a lot of work. IMHO it will also draw more users to SeaMonkey as well. Seen many a browser change their look over the years.
Right now I am also using the Sea Fox add-on and also the Classic Toolbar Buttons add-on. And am using a Persona as well whilst using my browser.
Was wondering if those add-ons and themes will be still be maintained for users who would like to use them for the next stable release of SeaMonkey and future releases.
Or will SeaMonkey have their own specific add-ons, themes and Personas/skins specifically geared to the SeaMonkey browser?
From the SeaMonkey council Our concensus is that we will release 2.49.x off 52 ESR.
And will at some point SeaMonkey developers fork the browser itself without having to rely specifically on Firefox code and browser engine?
Am thinking that perhaps that can be done. We also have a lot of members here including those who do the third party builds who might be willing to join the SeaMonkey council.
In conclusion I do foresee a bright future for SeaMonkey and it's my favorite browser of all of the ones I have tried over the years.
LONG LIVE SEAMONKEY!
edit: meant to say GUI not GUID
Not a major overhaul so-to speak. But, something a little new and fresh of years of having the same look for the browser.
This wouldn't require a lot of work. IMHO it will also draw more users to SeaMonkey as well. Seen many a browser change their look over the years.
Right now I am also using the Sea Fox add-on and also the Classic Toolbar Buttons add-on. And am using a Persona as well whilst using my browser.
Was wondering if those add-ons and themes will be still be maintained for users who would like to use them for the next stable release of SeaMonkey and future releases.
Or will SeaMonkey have their own specific add-ons, themes and Personas/skins specifically geared to the SeaMonkey browser?
From the SeaMonkey council Our concensus is that we will release 2.49.x off 52 ESR.
And will at some point SeaMonkey developers fork the browser itself without having to rely specifically on Firefox code and browser engine?
Am thinking that perhaps that can be done. We also have a lot of members here including those who do the third party builds who might be willing to join the SeaMonkey council.
In conclusion I do foresee a bright future for SeaMonkey and it's my favorite browser of all of the ones I have tried over the years.
LONG LIVE SEAMONKEY!
edit: meant to say GUI not GUID
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
You mean, intentionally break all existing SeaMonkey add-ons by invalidating the <em:id> inside the SeaMonkey <em:targetApplication> in their install.rdf? I must have misunderstood.LuvKomputrs wrote:Any changes for the GUID for future releases of SeaMonkey?
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
I think he meant GUI, not GUID!tonymec wrote:I must have misunderstood.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Probably. This crash also happened after repairing a folder.frg wrote:Hmm probably:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1314347
Fixed in 2.49. Need to check if we can uplift this for 2.48.
2.48 beta also has a bug with saving attachments - when I tried opening a zip attachment it opened as text in a browser window and when saving to disk the whole message source was saved instead of the attachment content. I installed 2.49.1 and the problem appears to be fixed there.
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