On 7/23/11, Ken <[email protected]> wrote: > Gratitude to Philip Taylor for his response. Thanks, Philip. I saw one > of your earlier posts (I think it was yours) about unwanted tabs in SM > 2.2 and understood and sympathised completely. > > Please, anyone, what earlier version of SM might you recommend as > particularly stable?
The problem is that earlier versions have security issues. I can't find the SM page that lists security issues/fixes, so this will have to do http://secunia.com/advisories/45007/ Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla SeaMonkey, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, and compromise a user's system. > Also - slightly off topic - can anyone tell me how to kill the box that > opens every time I come here asking whether I want to compress my > folders? I have no idea :( Lee > (My answer would be - please tell me if I'm wrong - 'No, of > course I don't want to do that unless I'm running out of space, but with > a new computer and a vast hard drive, that seems to me hardly likely' - > but the box gives me no such option, i.e., to say 'No', nor does it have > a 'Don't show me this box in the future' option.) > > - Ken (in Oz) > ----- > Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: >> Ken -- >> >>> Hi guys. I have already posted the following as an adjunct to other >>> threads but got no response. I will clarify below what I am seeking: >>> >>> >Looks like I can't go back to SM 2.0.18 (I think it was - but it may >>> have been 2.0.11). The 'Known Issues' note for SM 2.2 is headed (in >>> bold), 'Data loss warning' and continues: 'If you use a profile with >>> this or any later version and then try to go back to SeaMonkey 2.0, >>> SeaMonkey will rename your history file to places.sqlite.corrupt and >>> create a new places.qlite file, effectively resetting your browsing >>> history.' >>> >>> >Well, I don't pretend to understand all of that, but it does seem to >>> be saying that I will lose data if I try to restore the SM version I >>> had before. No? >> >> It would seem, from the text you cite and from the "Known issues" page : >> >> http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.2/#issues >> >> that the only expected data loss is your browsing history. Given that >> most of us now operate in "paranoid" mode, and clear the browser history >> on browser exit anyway, this does not seem to represent a serious risk. >> >> Like you, and like some other contributors to this list since the >> announcement/release of V2.2, I too feel that V2.2 has fixed far >> too much that "ain't broke" in the first place -- incremental releases >> should (IMHO) address security concerns, evolving standards such >> as CSS, and similar core issues, reserving major behavioural changes >> such as the new "must use tabs" philosophy and the no-longer-optional >> installation of Chatzilla for optional major release (i.e., Seamonkey 3). >> >> Philip Taylor. who understands the "the world must move on" philosophy, >> but who nonetheless finds Windows/XP, Classic View, Office 2003 >> and so on infinitely more user friendly than any of the more recent >> developments). > > _______________________________________________ > support-seamonkey mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
