Re: new 2.3

2011-08-17 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 01/08/2011 15:31, Pat Connors told the world: Okay, I just got home after a week away and see there is another new version of SM. I am still on 2.0.14 and didn't update to 2.2 because of all the complaints. Now we have 2.3 and more complaints. I really don't know

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-17 Thread S. Beaulieu
Pat Connors a écrit : Okay, I just got home after a week away and see there is another new version of SM. I am still on 2.0.14 and didn't update to 2.2 because of all the complaints. Now we have 2.3 and more complaints. I really don't know what to do. I like the version I am using. I am using

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-17 Thread Mike
MCBastos wrote: I'm using Win7 x64 and had *no* problems with the update This was my experience. I did notice a couple oddities like the right-click menu going full screen height. But the speed improvement in the email windows alone was worth it for me. Some of the louder people on the

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-16 Thread A.Nonny Mouse
On 2011-08-08 10:17, sean nathan bean wrote: Pat Connors sent me the following:: Okay, I just got home after a week away and see there is another new version of SM. I am still on 2.0.14 and didn't update to 2.2 because of all the complaints. Now we have 2.3 and more complaints. I really don't

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-16 Thread JD
A.Nonny Mouse wrote: On 2011-08-08 10:17, sean nathan bean wrote: Pat Connors sent me the following:: Okay, I just got home after a week away and see there is another new version of SM. I am still on 2.0.14 and didn't update to 2.2 because of all the complaints. Now we have 2.3 and more

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-12 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: The link you provide above takes me to a google groups login page. All my tries to retrieve previous articles by clicking on Message-IDs or the numbers assigned them in the References: list are directed by SM to

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-12 Thread PhillipJones
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 11-08-11 12:37 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Looking at this posting, I see that there was a follow up posting by PhillipJones to my cynical posting I wish I could writhe ... ... pooper scooper brigade. But I can not

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-12 Thread PhillipJones
NoOp wrote: On 08/11/2011 08:02 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 11-08-11 12:37 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Looking at this posting, I see that there was a follow up posting by PhillipJones to my cynical posting I wish I could writhe ... ...

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-12 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 12/08/2011 00:34, NoOp told the world: Thank goodness you don't use FoxNews... I chose CNN for maximum recognition both here in Brazil and abroad. FoxNews is available on cable here, but it's still pretty obscure -- nobody I know watches it. Their political rhetoric

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-12 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: The link you provide above takes me to a google groups login page. All my tries to retrieve previous articles by clicking on Message-IDs or the numbers assigned them in the References:

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-12 Thread NoOp
On 08/12/2011 07:56 AM, MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 12/08/2011 00:34, NoOp told the world: Thank goodness you don't use FoxNews... I chose CNN for maximum recognition both here in Brazil and abroad. FoxNews is available on cable here, but it's still pretty obscure -- nobody I

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Ilias
On 11-08-12 12:06 AM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: I removed it. See http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/msg/e1b618a1563e79a3. Do you mean that you censored, removed, deleted, PhillipJones' article from

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-12 Thread Ant
On Aug 5, 3:17 am, Justin Wood (Callek) cal...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I just got home after a week away and see there is another new version of SM. I am still on 2.0.14 and didn't update to 2.2 because of all the complaints. Now we have 2.3 and more complaints. I really don't know what to

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Kaiser
MCBastos schrieb: Then, the third thing: Webkit is a smaller, more focused project than Gecko. Nowadays, even that is a myth. While Webkit doesn't understand all the same standards as full as Gecko does, it grew its own networking library etc. over time because they learned the same lessons

Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: PhillipJones wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 09/08/2011 21:18, Rufus told the world: ...it was a suggestion for a *new* SM product from the *SM* team because someone posed a question - and not even that particular product,

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread Chris Ilias
On 11-08-11 12:37 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Looking at this posting, I see that there was a follow up posting by PhillipJones to my cynical posting I wish I could writhe ... ... pooper scooper brigade. But I can not find PhillipJoness' posting at Mozilla News. It used to be that clicking on

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread Keith Whaley
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 10/08/2011 16:45, Justin Wood (Callek) told the world: PhillipJones wrote: [...] I strongly suspect he wasn't interviewed by CNN, and in the end, he didn't email the world. All he did was to email somebody on this list. Somewhat complicated at times,

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Chris Ilias wrote: On 11-08-11 12:37 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Looking at this posting, I see that there was a follow up posting by PhillipJones to my cynical posting I wish I could writhe ... ... pooper scooper brigade. But I can not find PhillipJoness' posting at Mozilla News. It used to

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread PhillipJones
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 11-08-11 12:37 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Looking at this posting, I see that there was a follow up posting by PhillipJones to my cynical posting I wish I could writhe ... ... pooper scooper brigade. But I can not find PhillipJoness' posting

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread PhillipJones
Keith Whaley wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 10/08/2011 16:45, Justin Wood (Callek) told the world: PhillipJones wrote: [...] I strongly suspect he wasn't interviewed by CNN, and in the end, he didn't email the world. All he did was to email somebody on this list. Somewhat

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 11/08/2011 16:42, Keith Whaley told the world: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 10/08/2011 16:45, Justin Wood (Callek) told the world: PhillipJones wrote: [...] I strongly suspect he wasn't interviewed by CNN, and in the end, he didn't email the world. All he

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 11-08-11 12:37 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Looking at this posting, I see that there was a follow up posting by PhillipJones to my cynical posting I wish I could writhe ... ... pooper scooper brigade. But I can not find PhillipJoness' posting

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread NoOp
On 08/11/2011 07:10 PM, MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 11/08/2011 16:42, Keith Whaley told the world: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 10/08/2011 16:45, Justin Wood (Callek) told the world: PhillipJones wrote: [...] I strongly suspect he wasn't interviewed by CNN, and in the

Re: Radical change in topic. Now a newsreader Q. was (Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-11 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 11-08-11 12:37 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Looking at this posting, I see that there was a follow up posting by PhillipJones to my cynical posting I wish I could writhe ... ... pooper scooper brigade. But I can not

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-10 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 09/08/2011 21:18, Rufus told the world: ...it was a suggestion for a *new* SM product from the *SM* team because someone posed a question - and not even that particular product, it's an *example*...crap, can't anybody around here think *conceptually*?

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-10 Thread PhillipJones
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 09/08/2011 21:18, Rufus told the world: ...it was a suggestion for a *new* SM product from the *SM* team because someone posed a question - and not even that particular product, it's an *example*...crap, can't anybody around here

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-10 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
PhillipJones wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 09/08/2011 21:18, Rufus told the world: ...it was a suggestion for a *new* SM product from the *SM* team because someone posed a question - and not even that particular product, it's an *example*...crap,

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-10 Thread PhillipJones
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 10/08/2011 16:45, Justin Wood (Callek) told the world: PhillipJones wrote: Rather than being locked into Firefox running itself into the ground and following suit. I suggest the developers at SeaMonkey say goodbye to Mozilla and switch to web-kit engine.

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-09 Thread Robert Kaiser
Rufus schrieb: Someone asked for an example of how the SM team could generate some actual revenue...this is one way No, because it's not a product of the SeaMonkey team, but of the Firefox-related teams. It would be their revenue, and they don't need it. Robert Kaiser -- Note that any

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Ilias
On 11-08-07 9:42 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: WLS wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I'm only saying what I've read here from authoritative sources; the only addition is my judgment half-baked, which reflects many of the opinions voiced here. If you don't like it, speak to the merits of the

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-09 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Chris Ilias wrote: On 11-08-07 9:42 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: WLS wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I'm only saying what I've read here from authoritative sources; the only addition is my judgment half-baked, which reflects many of the opinions voiced here. If you don't like it, speak to

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-09 Thread Rufus
Robert Kaiser wrote: Rufus schrieb: Someone asked for an example of how the SM team could generate some actual revenue...this is one way No, because it's not a product of the SeaMonkey team, but of the Firefox-related teams. It would be their revenue, and they don't need it. Robert Kaiser

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-09 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 09/08/2011 12:31, PhillipJones told the world: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Okay if that's the case here is one for you . I tried the 2.3.b3 the other day. Just to see if there was improvement. Well PDF still doesn't work though all my plugins work except the one for

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-09 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 09/08/2011 21:18, Rufus told the world: ...it was a suggestion for a *new* SM product from the *SM* team because someone posed a question - and not even that particular product, it's an *example*...crap, can't anybody around here think *conceptually*? ...are you

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-09 Thread Rufus
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 09/08/2011 21:18, Rufus told the world: ...it was a suggestion for a *new* SM product from the *SM* team because someone posed a question - and not even that particular product, it's an *example*...crap, can't anybody around here think *conceptually*?

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Daniel
WLS wrote: Daniel wrote: WLS wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/08/2011 11:17, Bill Davidsen told the world: Some commercial users have complained that they can't do a QA cycle that often, and

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread WLS
Daniel wrote: WLS wrote: Daniel wrote: WLS wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/08/2011 11:17, Bill Davidsen told the world: Some commercial users have complained that they can't do a QA cycle

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Daniel
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: WLS wrote: Daniel wrote: WLS wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/08/2011 11:17, Bill Davidsen told the world: Some commercial users have complained that they can't

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Daniel wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Do you have WebGL disabled in about:config? Really even if its enabled in about:config, it could be disabled on your system. webgl.disabled ... default.false (is disabled and false a double negative??) Yes it is a double negative, if

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Ed Mullen
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Ed Mullen wrote: Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Jens Hatlak wrote: [This is mostly for Philip et al. since Callek surely knows or can find out himself.] AFAICS it's 2.5 (current trunk) that will have seven levels in the plus direction and 4 in the

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Robert Kaiser wrote: Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) schrieb: Unfortunately, from a user perspective, major change is rarely welcome, whilst increased security and incremental bug fixes are universally appreciated. Right, that's why the major change the web brought to computers was never

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Jens Hatlak
Robert Kaiser wrote: Jens Hatlak schrieb: IOW, for things like Add-ons Manager and Data Manager (called from different places!), corresponding bugs need to be filed if not already present. No bug, no change. One is enough, it's the switchToTabHavingURI() function that is to blame and used by

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-08 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Robert Kaiser wrote: PhillipJones schrieb: The original post meant SeaMonkey. It didn't. FF is up to 5.6.7.8 or whatever. SM increments their major updates by .1's 2.0, 2.1, 2.2., 2.3, 2.4 and so on. That is just a different numbering system, the rate and size of updates is very similar.

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Rufus schrieb: 99 cent price point for i-apps which augment SM on the iOS platform - cha-ching! If they still want to give the suite away for free, they can still do that. But i-apps and complementary add-ons? Sell away - biz model 2.0! Note that this is not done by the SM team and no money

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj schrieb: What's relevant is not their naming but their frequency and buggines! Right, and SeaMonkey matches Firefox both in frequency as well as mostly in how few bugs it has, though SeaMonkey tends to have a bit more of those than Firefox recently. Still, the

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-08 Thread W3BNR
On 8/8/2011 12:27 PM Robert Kaiser submitted the following: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj schrieb: What's relevant is not their naming but their frequency and buggines! Right, and SeaMonkey matches Firefox both in frequency as well as mostly in how few bugs it has, though SeaMonkey tends to have a bit

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Ed Mullen schrieb: What is unacceptable is that the user can no longer set his/her own values for toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues. 1) SeaMonkey never allowed to set custom values for the list of available zoom levels before, that was a Firefox-only feature until recently. 2) Newer SeaMonkey

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread sean nathan bean
Pat Connors sent me the following:: Okay, I just got home after a week away and see there is another new version of SM. I am still on 2.0.14 and didn't update to 2.2 because of all the complaints. Now we have 2.3 and more complaints. I really don't know what to do. I like the version I am using.

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: MCBastos wrote: But, the thing is, with limited resources available, supporting those old releases means that the new release does not receive as much work as it needs. With Seamonkey tied to the every-six-weeks Mozilla release schedule, delaying release is not an

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
WLS wrote: The Mozilla Foundation is leading the development of a better Internet. http://www.mozilla.org/about/mission.html http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto By its' own claims and pronouncements! Just because you don't like it, don't spread misinformation.

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:29:22 -0400, /Paul B. Gallagher/: As our parents used to ask, If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too? Just because the FF people decided to rush things and churn out a series of half-baked products for

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread WLS
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: MCBastos wrote: But, the thing is, with limited resources available, supporting those old releases means that the new release does not receive as much work as it needs. With Seamonkey tied to the every-six-weeks Mozilla release schedule,

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: WLS wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I'm only saying what I've read here from authoritative sources; the only addition is my judgment half-baked, which reflects many of the opinions voiced here. If you don't like it, speak to the merits of the argument. You need not

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: MCBastos wrote: But, the thing is, with limited resources available, supporting those old releases means that the new release does not receive as much work as it needs. With Seamonkey tied to the every-six-weeks Mozilla release schedule,

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 07/08/2011 21:29, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: MCBastos wrote: But, the thing is, with limited resources available, supporting those old releases means that the new release does not receive as much work as it needs. With Seamonkey tied to the

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:27:03 -0400, /Rostyslaw Lewyckyj/: MCBastos wrote: First of all, I reject the premise that FF would be churning half-baked products. This is simply not true. In fact, it has been argued that the new rapid-release schedule IMPROVES quality, since each release goes through

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Jens Hatlak
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: And how about repairing in 2.2 bugs discovered after release in 2.1? And in 2.3 repairing bugs from 2.1 and/or 2.2? (There have, I admit, promises to repair in 2.4 or later, some problems introduced in 2.1 :-) ) I'm sure you're capable of reading, no? How about

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread NoOp
On 08/07/2011 09:44 PM, Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: NoOp wrote: ... Same as Daniel. Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110731 Firefox/6.0 SeaMonkey/2.3 From about:support Graphics Adapter DescriptionNVIDIA Corporation -- Quadro4 900

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-08 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Robert Kaiser wrote: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj schrieb: What's relevant is not their naming but their frequency and buggines! Right, and SeaMonkey matches Firefox both in frequency as well as mostly in how few bugs it has, though SeaMonkey tends to have a bit more of those than Firefox recently.

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj schrieb: So how many weeks of pure debugging and actual test suite testing did SM 2.1 receive (in addition to testing by the FF and TB team testing? Too little automated testing, we need more tests to be written and are happy about people doing those, feel free to

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Paul B. Gallagher schrieb: You must've expected when you made the decision, or at least you know now, that lots of users are unhappy with versions 2.1 and 2.2 and have been complaining about bugs, broken and lost features, etc. Note that 1) the 2.1 release was not part of the fast release

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
NoOp schrieb: The driver is the latest for that card. Blame nVidia for being customer-unfriendly and stopping to support your card in newer drivers. Robert Kaiser -- Note that any statements of mine - no matter how passionate - are never meant to be offensive but very often as food for

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
NoOp schrieb: Thanks. I suspect that is the issue (linux). Same problem on a 2 year old laptop w/Intel Mobile GM45... I'll run out and buy a new laptop tomorrow so I can experience all the wonders of WebGL :-) As I said in my post, under Linux the card may not the problem, Mozilla's support

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Rostyslaw Lewyckyj schrieb: And how soon the bugs are eliminated :-) Right now bugs, misfeatures, introduced in SM 2.1 are projected to be possibly corrected in 2.5. Them's the new development rules. True, we are fixing bugs all the time and releasing every six week to deliver the fixes to

[OT WebGL + older hardware[ Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread NoOp
On 08/08/2011 06:48 PM, Robert Kaiser wrote: NoOp schrieb: The driver is the latest for that card. Blame nVidia for being customer-unfriendly and stopping to support your card in newer drivers. Robert Kaiser I do. Examples:

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-08 Thread Rufus
Robert Kaiser wrote: Rufus schrieb: 99 cent price point for i-apps which augment SM on the iOS platform - cha-ching! If they still want to give the suite away for free, they can still do that. But i-apps and complementary add-ons? Sell away - biz model 2.0! Note that this is not done by the

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-08 Thread NoOp
On 08/08/2011 06:54 PM, Robert Kaiser wrote: NoOp schrieb: Thanks. I suspect that is the issue (linux). Same problem on a 2 year old laptop w/Intel Mobile GM45... I'll run out and buy a new laptop tomorrow so I can experience all the wonders of WebGL :-) As I said in my post, under Linux

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-07 Thread Rufus
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Rufus wrote: *This* surprises the crap out of me though, considering some of what I've read here elsewhere - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/ ...and you get it via the Apple App Store. Off topic for this NG, *but* Firefox Home is *not* Firefox for iPhone, it

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Ray_Net
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Well, the mass of innovation-resistant people posting in those forums is at least one of the reasons why I moved away my focus from SeaMonkey and work on making Firefox more stable (in terms of not crashing) now. Understood,

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Ray_Net
Bill Davidsen wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/08/2011 11:17, Bill Davidsen told the world: Some commercial users have complained that they can't do a QA cycle that often, and according to the reports were told that Firefox is not suitable for business use. I can dig out the

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:47:15 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: Robert Kaiser wrote: Well, the mass of innovation-resistant people posting in those forums is at least one of the reasons why I moved away my focus from SeaMonkey and work on making Firefox

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread WLS
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/08/2011 11:17, Bill Davidsen told the world: Some commercial users have complained that they can't do a QA cycle that often, and according to the reports were told that

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Daniel
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:37:53 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: Putting a reasoned argument on behalf of those who prefer stability and security to non-essential change is not bitching; it is offering a

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Daniel
WLS wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/08/2011 11:17, Bill Davidsen told the world: Some commercial users have complained that they can't do a QA cycle that often, and according to the reports

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:12:48 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: I agree that some of the critiques have lacked focus; but in general, I believe that those who are most vocal in criticising the current changes in Seamonkey development and release are also amongst those who are most deeply

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Daniel wrote: Philip, perhaps it might help to consider the SeaMonkey developers not as a group of developers who are trying to produce a product that will sweep all before them, but as a group of *USERS* who are trying to produce a product that will do what *they* want, and you and I get

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: The only thing I'm genuinely afraid of is that the last few people who care about, and have enough knowledge to develop and maintain SeaMonkey might lose interest because of so much unreasonable criticism going on. From my point of view every change to the SeaMonkey

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: What we need (IMHO) is a genuine debate between users and developers; a little less sniping, and a better appreciation by each side of the wishes of, and constraints on, the other side, would go a long way towards ensuring a viable future for this most

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:12:48 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: I agree that some of the critiques have lacked focus; but in general, I believe that those who are most vocal in criticising the current changes in Seamonkey development and release are also amongst

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: [snip] We all want the same thing, SeaMonkey to Succeed! Remember that, and remember that we do read and care about your [regular users] thoughts. Sometimes tradeoffs are necessary, sometimes new features are necessary. Sometimes features you (and us) have come to

Re: new 2.3 - Firefox updates too often

2011-08-07 Thread PhillipJones
Rufus wrote: PhillipJones wrote: Rufus wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: PhillipJones schrieb: The original post meant SeaMonkey. It didn't. FF is up to 5.6.7.8 or whatever. SM increments their major updates by .1's 2.0, 2.1, 2.2., 2.3, 2.4 and so on. That is just a different numbering

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: You are probably almost certainly correct. The problem is, the release notes do not provide any of this background -- we the users have no way of knowing which features were deliberately introduced by the Seamonkey team, which were carried over from

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:52:03 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: The problem is, the release notes do not provide any of this background -- we the users have no way of knowing which features were deliberately introduced by the Seamonkey team, which were carried over from Firefox/Gecko

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:47:15 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: Robert Kaiser wrote: Well, the mass of innovation-resistant people posting in those forums is at least one of the reasons why I moved away my focus

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
WLS wrote: Daniel wrote: WLS wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: WLS wrote: Ray_Net wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/08/2011 11:17, Bill Davidsen told the world: Some commercial users have complained that they can't do a QA cycle that often, and

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: I don't know the answer to the DOM-inspector question, which is why I chose not to answer it when I read it. That said there is a newsgroup for DOM Inspector in these newsgroups (though much less frequented then SeaMonkey) and it *is* an on-topic question in our

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread PhillipJones
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:37:53 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: Putting a reasoned argument on behalf of those who prefer stability and security to non-essential change is not bitching; it is offering a constructive criticism that should be interpreted as such.

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:31:21 -0400, /PhillipJones/: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: The problem with the so called constructive criticism I see widespread in this group, is it doesn't help keeping the SeaMonkey product alive, most importantly, and then usable, both related to the Mozilla platform

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:31:21 -0400, /PhillipJones/: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: The problem with the so called constructive criticism I see widespread in this group, is it doesn't help keeping the SeaMonkey product alive, most importantly, and then usable, both

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread PhillipJones
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:12:48 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: I agree that some of the critiques have lacked focus; but in general, I believe that those who are most vocal in criticising the current changes in Seamonkey development and release are also amongst

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: I don't know the answer to the DOM-inspector question, which is why I chose not to answer it when I read it. That said there is a newsgroup for DOM Inspector in these newsgroups (though much less frequented then SeaMonkey)

Re: new 2.3 [Tabbed UI Features]

2011-08-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: As of 2.2, tabs were forced when one attempted to access either the Data Manager or the Add-ons manager via the Tools menu interface. If that behaviour is reverted in a more recent release, then I am both reassured and

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:41:56 -0400, /PhillipJones/: But when you get to the point you kill off Internet plugins that have word for ages and still should work. That the point I stop upgrading. With 2.3 I can't even view large sections of my own website. and I set up so it 4.0.1 Strict. I use a lot

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: While the widespreading could be a symptom to a problem, I've been observing this group long enough to deduce most of the criticism seen is just ignorant babble. OK, in view of your long association with, and observation of, this group, may I ask you one question

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Justin Wood (Callek)
Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: While the widespreading could be a symptom to a problem, I've been observing this group long enough to deduce most of the criticism seen is just ignorant babble. OK, in view of your long association with, and observation

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread WLS
PhillipJones wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:12:48 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: I agree that some of the critiques have lacked focus; but in general, I believe that those who are most vocal in criticising the current changes in Seamonkey development and

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Stanimir Stamenkov
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:18:58 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: OK, in view of your long association with, and observation of, this group, may I ask you one question ? Has there been equally widespread (and ill-informed ?) criticism following each major release of Seamonkey, or has there

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread NoOp
On 08/07/2011 08:27 AM, Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: WLS wrote: Daniel wrote: WLS wrote: ... Here is the link if anyone wants to view the demo. http://robhawkes.github.com/webgl-html5-audio-visualiser/ Clicking on the link got me Jazz sounding music with a blank screen and Done SeaMonkey

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
NoOp wrote: Seems to be the Windows Vista syndrome... fill the landfills with old hardware so that you can experience the latest greatest. Further, NVIDIA 257.21 doesn't work on Quadro4 cards. Not restricted to Vista; I too see nothing under Win/XP;SP3. Adapter Description

Re: new 2.3

2011-08-07 Thread Rufus
Daniel wrote: Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Stanimir Stamenkov wrote: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:37:53 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/: Putting a reasoned argument on behalf of those who prefer stability and security to non-essential change is not bitching; it is offering a

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