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 complaints. I really don't
know what to do. I like the version I am using. I am using Windows 7
which seems to complicate all new program updates.
Just wondering how others using Win 7 have managed with the new update.
my two cents:
SeaMonkey 2.1 and 2.2 have been virtually flawless...there may have been
a few niggling details which irked me personally... but none rose to the
level of making me decide to remain in the insecure 2.0.x series...
Sorry to disagree with you, but I found 2.1 and 2.2 to be virtually
useless because they were so badly flawed. Add the irreversible database
changes to this and I'm not even going to try 2.3.
I am very sad that SeaMonkey has chosen to follow on with the FireFox
release program (I understand that SM is inextricably tied to FF) rather
than just maintaining the 2.0 tree. I (and many others) believe the FF
6-week release cycle is an extremely bad idea and I have no intention of
going that route. Despite being a Netscape/Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey user
for almost 20 years, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ditch Mozilla in
all its forms and go a different direction. Since I have a large
collection of tools I've developed for hacking various things about
Mozilla, I do not do this lightly. To put it bluntly, I am not
interested in a SeaMonkey that is nothing more than FireFox and
Thunderbird launched simultaneously -- if SM can't offer something other
than this, there's no reason for it to exist.
For me, it is far more important that I have something that is stable
and has a stable database format that I can develop my own tools for
than it is to support the latest "eye-candy." The database format for
bookmarks and mail has been almost unchanged for that entire 20 years --
until now.
I haven't decided which browser+email I will be switching to since
considerable research will be required, but it has become sadly obvious
to me that it is necessary to change. Unless, that is, someone is
willing to fork SeaMonkey at the 2.0.14 level and maintain it strictly
with security bug fixes.
Sorry to see you go. Be sure to post back with what "browser+email"
program you switched to. SM2.0.14 is the end of the line for the 2.0
version. I'm not that crazy about certain aspects of SM2.2 but I've
learned to make it work for me.
--
JD..
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