Stephan Thiele wrote:
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I don't really understand why
there still is no Seamonkey update after the 2.40 release in March,
almost half a year ago.
I am quite confused that there a nightlies with version numbers
increasing to 2.48 while there is not even a beta.
Seamonkey is my default browser and mail and news program, so I don't
like to take any risk of losing my data and mails by using a buggy
nightly. On the other hand, I see a lot of security updates of Firefox
and Thunderbird which have been published in the meantime and therefore
I'm concerned about unfixed vulnerabilities in Seamonkey.
Any hope?
Yes, There is a lot of work to be done between releases. Our Seamonkey
programmers are volunteers,and should be praised for all the wonderful
work they put in to maintain Seamonkey. They can only do so much as
volunteers and can not work on Seamonkey full time.
I love SeaMonkey and thank all our programmers.I can wait a bit longer,
if it means that SeaMonkey will continue to be updated and usable.
Give the SeaMonkey developers a break since the Firefox developers keep
adding changes to the underlying Gecko technology that both Firefox,
Thunderbird and Seamonkey uses. Some of the changes to Gecko are not
compatible with Seamonkey. Our Seamonkey programmers do amazing work
adapting/reverting Gecko changes made by FireFox programmers so that
Seamonky and NOT some offshoot clone of Firefox.I praise the SeaMonkey
programmers for their tireless work maintaining and keeping SeaMonkey as
Seamonkey and not some offshoot or clone of FireFox.
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