On 12/22/2016 6:48 PM, Edmund Wong wrote: > Hi All, > > (this is a personal note, so any flak should be directed to me only and > no one else). > > While this is in the soon-to-be-released release notes, I felt it's > prudent that I post this here. > > SeaMonkey 2.46 took it's not-so-sweet time in being released due to a > plethora of issues (I am so damn glad at least others are more on the > ball than I am -- namely frg whose more clear-headed than I am). That > said, there is one major issue. > > SeaMonkey 2.40 will be the *last* version that supports non-CPU SSE > enabled systems. 2.44 (or maybe 2.43) *was* supposed to be the version > that gave users the 'your system will no longer be supported due to > it not having a SSE-enabled CPU' message (or something like that). > Unfortunately, 2.44 was skipped (as was 2.43 and 2.45) and so this > will come to users as a surprise (especially those installing the > full installer). > > Since I have no knowledge (we lost this metric awhile ago) of how many > users we really have, I don't know how many are affected by this > and I suspect we won't know unless someone speaks out here or > anywhere. If you are affected, please use 2.40. > > My humblest apologies for suddenly springing this version on the user > base without mentioning it anywhere beforehand (the bug that dealt with > this change slipped off my radar). > > > Edmund > >
Is there a method by which an end-user can determine if a PC has a CPU that is SSE enabled? My wife's PC was built in 2010 with an Intel Pentium processor, but I cannot tell if it is Pentium 4, which is where SSE first appeared. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
