On 2018-12-18 20:13, Ant wrote:
https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2018/12/19/updating-everyone/
Thank you to everyone who has been working on this project. I understand that it's a huge task and the pay sucks :-) and I really do appreciate it.
For what it's worth, here's my opinion on what I want to see in future Seamonkey, which may or may not be similar to anyone else's. Executive summary: my priorities for what I'd like to see in future Seamonkey versions are #1 support for non-obsolete extensions and #2 performance.
Background: Seamonkey is my default browser largely because I used Netscape, which morphed into Mozilla, which morphed into Seamonkey. On my home computer, I also use it for personal email. I also use Firefox and am quite happy with it; I just don't particularly want to have to switch (nor do I particularly want to have to switch my mail to Thunderbird), especially since I expect there would be quite a bit of the years worth of configuration (of the browser and of extensions) that might have to be redone by hand.
The biggest thing I want Seamonkey to do is to support modern add-ons. None of the Seamonkey extensions I use have had updates in over a year; meanwhile, their Firefox versions continue to be developed. So at some point, for me, Seamonkey becomes unusable as my main browser if things like ad blocking and HTTPS Everywhere are years out of date.
#2 is performance. I use both Seamonkey and Firefox on two different computers, and on both, Firefox performs better - sometimes dramatically so. And any time Seamonkey is sluggish, the CPU utilization tells me it's largely running on one core only (e.g. it's eating about 25% of CPU time on a four-core computer), which usually isn't the case in Firefox. So I guess we need Quantum, and yes, I understand that's an enormous thing to port, but the farther Seamonkey falls behind other browsers in performance, the less useful it is.
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