On 2018-12-23 19:04, Nuno Silva wrote:
On 2018-12-22, [email protected] wrote:
[...] Because without an up to date engine Seamonkey
will not be able to appeal to new users and long time users will
slowly move on as well. I.e. in my optinion Seamonkey would not have a
future without an up-to-date engine.
Are you really sure nobody would be interested in Seamonkey if it does
not chase Firefox?
It doesn't necessarily have to chase Firefox, but it has to be up to
date. Think back to when Seamonkey 1.x fell a couple of years behind
Firefox while Seamonkey 2.x was in its prolonged gestation. More and
more sites didn't work properly in Seamonkey 1.x because it hadn't kept
up with modern standards. That's what's going to happen to Seamonkey if
it doesn't get up to date.
Maybe the best solution is the massive amount of work required to make
Seamonkey compatible with a current version of Gecko (the engine it
shares with Firefox). Maybe the best solution is the massive amount of
work required to rip Gecko out and replace it with something else
(Chromium or WebKit or whatever). Or maybe the best solution is
something else. But simply leaving it with the current engine is not a
viable option; that will result in Seamonkey gradually becoming unusable
as it gets left behind.
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