Interviewed by CNN on 05/06/2014 13:55, o...@gmx.de told the world: > I am new here. Today Seamonkey did erase one time more my actual Seamonkey > version through the automatic update. And I am sad about it! I am very > surprised to have to login at google to discuss with Mozilla people as I, > myself, avoid Google as far as possible because of the globalisation of all > informations jobs on the world with google as bigest actor. It is the main > reason with I use Mozilla and not Chrome! But, ok, Mozilla has no filling > about this reallity. Back to my problem with Mozilla. I install a specific > version of Mozilla because I have all Mozilla's extensions for this release > of Seamonkey, and immediately after start Seamonkey actualize itself and > break so my effort to work with it! It is completely silly dilly!!! Why give > Seamonkey us the right to download and install old version if Seamonkey > implements in them default settings which demolish your choice and work > without to ask you if it is really good so?
Default behavior is the only generally assumed to be best for the widest set of users and circumstances. People who need particular, non-standard setups should be prepared to have to modify settings. So, in order: Q: Why is auto-update on by default? A: Because a large percentage of users don't know how or don't want to bother with updating the program to the latest release. Automating the process ensures that they have the latest version soon after its release, without the user needing to call tech-support-nephew or something similar. Q: Why should we push them to update then anyway? A: Because, generally speaking, updating is good. Security holes are patched, new functionality is activated, other bugs are fixed and such. Q: But I want to use old version X, because... A: Well, that's you, not most users. Keep in mind that old version X is no longer supported, and any problems you run into with it will only be fixed (if still relevant) in future releases. You are almost certainly using a version with known security problems, and very probably known HTML-rendering problems which have since been fixed in more recent builds. Using old versions is strongly discouraged. Q: So why are old versions still available, if you don't want people to use them? A: They are useful for testing. Sometimes an obscure bug will only be discovered/described long after the code that introduced the bug was checked into the code repository. Testing old versions to see if they also exhibit the same incorrect behavior will help to close on the problem. Mozilla and Seamonkey are open projects that depend heavily on community participation, so it would make no sense to keep this investigation resource from the community. And anyway, since Seamonkey is free/libre/open source, it would be impossible to _keep_ people from making old versions available somewhere else. The problem is, can you _trust_ those alternative repositories (which often have glaring holes in their listings)? So it's better to offer an official, canonical, complete repository of guaranteed-virus-free copies of those old versions. Q:But I want my old extensions, and they aren't compatible with SM 2.26! A:Check with the community. Many people have run into the problem of "extension author is not updating it to newer versions of Seamonkey anymore." In most cases, people will be able to suggest a workaround (so you can use the old extension in newer Seamonkey releases) or an alternative extension with similar functionality. Most extensions that worked with SM 2.0 (and many that worked with SM 1.x or Mozilla Suite) will still work with current releases; it's just a matter of getting around the "compatibility check" blockage. There's also ways to enable extensions officially available only for Firefox or Thunderbird in Seamonkey -- they don't work always, but they work often enough. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Philco Predicta. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.26 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
