On 7/10/11, Chris Ilias <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11-07-09 2:11 PM, Lee wrote: >> But the downside is that Mozilla is forcing everyone still using their >> browser to be alpha/beta testers by not keeping a "stable" version of >> the software supported. > > SeaMonkey 2.2 and Firefox 5 are stable.
The SeaMonkey dev team has done an excellent job of creating a quality product. So in that sense, yes, SM is "stable". But what I meant by "stable" in the context of "forcing everyone still using their browser to be alpha/beta testers" is a release train with no new features - just patches. My understanding is that FF security patches will be applied =only= to the next release. No more releasing a 4.0 version and still providing security fixes for the 3.6 release train. When 5.0 is released users either upgrade to 5.0 or run software with known vulns. >> Why in the world the Mozilla folk think going to a rapid release >> system is going to win back their lost "mindshare" (FF usage: down. >> chrome usage: up) is beyond me. > > It has nothing to do with whatever you call mindshare, and more to do > with not letting unfinished features prevent other improvements (like > CSS animations) from getting out to users when they are ready. I suspect there's lot of SM users that would prefer to stay on the same release train (eg. 2.2.x) and not upgrade to the next release train until all of the addons they use have been updated to work work with the new release train. Even if it meant living without CSS animations.. Regards, Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
