In <news:[email protected]>, Frank-Rainer Grahl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote: > > Frank-Rainer Grahl composed on 2016-09-10 00:03 (UTC+0200): > > > >> In the mean time if you need a new release grab 2.45 from Adrian > >> if you are on Windows or Linux. His releases are build from the > >> original sources and bug reports against them are accepted: > > > > Last I tried a version newer than 2.42 I found it unusable due to > > several GTK3-related bugs, the worst of which 1269145 is WONTFIX, > > while the others remain open: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269274 > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269145 > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269149 > > > > :-( > > Agreed but gtk3 itself is a pile of and at some point sticking to > gtk2 will no longer work ... I use Linux only occasionally but I am > quite sure this is/will become a problem for Firefox too. 2.45 was > supposed to use gtk2. I will ask in the next status meeting if we > should switch at least aurora, beta and release to gtk2 until the > problems are solved. It definitely is a problem for Firefox. AIUI, Mozilla have deprecated building Firefox using gtk2, but haven't said anything about the time frame for fully dropping support for building that way. If you find out anything from them about this, please post back. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
