The future of Seamonkey?
- Peter Creasey
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
I thought it was advised that basic users (like me) don't go past SM 2.49.4. Is this the case? Or is 2.53 okay?
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- therube
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
If you're happy with 2.49, then stick with it.
If you want to explore 2.53, then back up what you have & give it a try.
2.53 should be stable so shouldn't be any issues in that respect.
(2.57 is an entirely different matter.)
If you want to explore 2.53, then back up what you have & give it a try.
2.53 should be stable so shouldn't be any issues in that respect.
(2.57 is an entirely different matter.)
Fire 750, bring back 250.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Try 2.53 with a new profile.
Don't go back and forth between 2.53 and 2.49.
Places.sqlite will become corrupt.
Don't go back and forth between 2.53 and 2.49.
Places.sqlite will become corrupt.
- Frank Lion
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
This stuff is quite simple. Unless you are feeling adventurous then stick to official builds - https://www.seamonkey-project.org/Peter Creasey wrote:I thought it was advised that basic users (like me) don't go past SM 2.49.4. Is this the case? Or is 2.53 okay?
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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- Peter Creasey
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Frank, good point. I should have been clearer.Frank Lion wrote:This stuff is quite simple. Unless you are feeling adventurous then stick to official builds - https://www.seamonkey-project.org/Peter Creasey wrote:I thought it was advised that basic users (like me) don't go past SM 2.49.4. Is this the case? Or is 2.53 okay?
Here is what I should have asked...
When SM 2.53 becomes an official build, should I avoid advancing to it and stay with 2.49.4? Or should I (a very basic user happy with 2.49.4) do the update to the official build of 2.53?
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
I do something between the two. I wait until the official release and then give it a month before I update to it.Peter Creasey wrote:When SM 2.53 becomes an official build, should I avoid advancing to it and stay with 2.49.4? Or should I (a very basic user happy with 2.49.4) do the update to the official build of 2.53?
The reason is that it is impossible for a developer to betatest every combination of variables prior to release, so the first real test a build gets on real world conditions is immediately after release. So, I let any bugs appear, get fixed and then update to it.
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- tonymec
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
If and when 2.53 becomes official, I see no reason why one should not update to it, though I've been told that downgrading from it might damage your places.sqlite (i.e. bookmarks, etc.).Peter Creasey wrote:When SM 2.53 becomes an official build, should I avoid advancing to it and stay with 2.49.4? Or should I (a very basic user happy with 2.49.4) do the update to the official build of 2.53?
Builds later than 2.53 are a different problem, mainly because a lot of the backend code important to us has been teared down at that point by Firefox developers, and e.g. the Toolkit backend code needed by classical extensions was removed in Toolkit 57.0, corresponding to SeaMonkey 2.54.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
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- Peter Creasey
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Yes, this has worried me as I don't know how to change the UA string for website compatibility.Mouse4 wrote:prolly easier to get 2.53 rather than Having to change ya UA string eventually so a website(s) will be OK with the browser as websites will eventually say NO to old coded browser like 2.49
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- tonymec
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
With SeaMonkey 2.53 or lower you can use the User Agent Switcher extension. (In 2.54 or later the backends needed by classical extensions have been removed by the Firefox developers.) Or, on any version, you can set general.useragent.override to the desired UA string in about:config.Peter Creasey wrote:Yes, this has worried me as I don't know how to change the UA string for website compatibility.Mouse4 wrote:prolly easier to get 2.53 rather than Having to change ya UA string eventually so a website(s) will be OK with the browser as websites will eventually say NO to old coded browser like 2.49
However, knowing which UA to use on which site may be a trial-and-error problem. In worst-case scenarios, you might have to find out which Firefox UA is accepted by the website and masquerade as that.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
> (In 2.54 or later the backends needed by classical extensions have been removed by the Firefox developers.)
Not true. They did some damage to the source by removing apis but classic extensions can mostly made to work. Only after 60 Gecko turned into complete junk.
Not true. They did some damage to the source by removing apis but classic extensions can mostly made to work. Only after 60 Gecko turned into complete junk.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Btw. 2.53 would need l10n changes for an official relase so it will probably not arrive. As I said mostly my pet project on the way to 2.57 to test changes in a stable environment. We might do a 2.53 beta later.
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Ah? Thanks for correcting me. I thought Toolkit 57 (Fx57, Sm2.54) had already teared away the whole classical extensions stuff.frg wrote:Not true. They did some damage to the source by removing apis but classic extensions can mostly made to work. Only after 60 Gecko turned into complete junk.tonymec wrote:(In 2.54 or later the backends needed by classical extensions have been removed by the Firefox developers.)
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
Am quite content with using 2.49.4 of SeaMonkey for now until the next stable release comes out.
Haven't had any issues with any other sites that I use other than Yahoo for my email.
Just used this method by setting the general.useragent.override.* to the desired UA string in about:config
Am thinking when 2.57 is released we'll be seeing this in the UA string Firefox/60. SeaMonkey/2.57
Am glad to see that SeaMonkey is still going. It's one of the best browsers out there.
Haven't had any issues with any other sites that I use other than Yahoo for my email.
Just used this method by setting the general.useragent.override.* to the desired UA string in about:config
Am thinking when 2.57 is released we'll be seeing this in the UA string Firefox/60. SeaMonkey/2.57
Am glad to see that SeaMonkey is still going. It's one of the best browsers out there.
- Snake4
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Re: The future of Seamonkey?
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