Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
I'm curious, what issues have you [hawker] heard on 2.4.1 that worry you specifically. I know of only one real issue that we can pinpoint at this time. (I am working on an extension fix for it at this time as well)
Obviously I'm not Hawker, and I therefore can't answer on his/her behalf; neither can I easily identify any issues with Seamonkey > 2.0.14 that could logically cause significant worries; but I do believe, quite sincerely, that once Seamonkey started tracking the rapid-release schedule of Firefox, and took on board many of the more radical changes that Firefox had already adopted (e.g., places.sqlite, open tabs rather than windows, ...), it lost the confidence of a significant fraction of its user community. I have continued to upgrade my primary machine as far as 2.3.3; I have kept my secondary machine at 2.0.14; but I no longer accept upgrades unconditionally, and I am no longer a Seamonkey advocate -- I no longer say to those still using Internet Explorer and Outlook Express "ditch them : there is a /far/ better package that does what both of those do, seamlessly, and will offer you a /far/ superior environment within which to browse, send and receive e-mail). And I fear I am not alone in this. Others, too, on this list have expressed significant reservations about going beyond 2.0.14; they, too, are probably no longer vocal Seamonkey advocates. And I think that this is a great shame : Seamonkey was, and perhaps still is, a wonderful tool, preferable to IE, preferable to OE, to Firefox, to Thunderbird (except in the lack of a tool for identifying duplicate IMAP e-mails), to Opera, to Safari, to Konqueror. But it seems to some of us to have lost its way -- to have become little more than an undiscriminating beggar, eagerly snapping at whatever goodies Firefox and Gecko are currently offering, but no longer capable of being brave enough to go its own way whenever its own way would be preferable. I may be wrong; I hope I am; but this is a genuine expression of one person's opinion, for better or for worse. Philip Taylor _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
