DoctorBill wrote:
I will continue to use SeaMonkey with Windows 10.
Been getting a LOT of warnings that my Browser is "Outdated" and
won't work anymore....Like my College E-Mail, my bank, Jocko's Homemade
Medicine and Greeting Card Company (joking), etc, etc, etc....
Any sage advice (other than "Don't Do It !") about going up to Win 10
BEFORE I take the big step ? ! Yes - backing up stuff - but I have to
RELOAD
all my software ! Aaarrrgh !
Yes, there's a growing number of sites out there that are complaining
about Seamonkey being outdated. The thing that sparks this is that with
Firefox compatibility being advertised, sites see Seamonkey as Firefox
52.0, which is now out of support. There's lots of site operators out
there that don't know (or don't care) about active projects out there
that are being maintained with current security updates.
If you haven't done so, take a look at the recent thread titled "Google
search messed up" (I just posted a message to there a few minutes ago),
and there's more discussion of this issue.
In my experience, the sites that are the most aggressive in complaining
about Seamonkey, whether Seamonkey isn't Firefox, or aged version
information tends to be financial institutions. A lot of the time, you
can get around the problems with browser spoofing, but it's getting
harder to do spoofing, since the demise of PrefBar (dropped when Firefox
required all extensions to be WebExtensions. It looks like User Agent
Switcher is still an option:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/seamonkey/addon/user-agent-switcher
For me, I'm constantly getting nags about old browser from a financial
institution. So far, I can ignore the nags, or make sure I set
Seamonkey to spoof a current Firefox version before I go to the site,
and beyond that, no problems with interacting. However, I got tired
enough of the nags that I went to about:config, and by adjusting
settings for general.useragent.override, I can tell that site that I'm
running Seamonkey 2.53 and Firefox 60.0, and I'm not getting the nags
anymore.
Specifically, I set general.useragent.override.www.example.com to:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.1
If you want, you can set just general.useragent.override, and that will
spoof globally, but I prefer to resort to spoofing only when I need it,
either by using PrefBar on the fly, or in the case of this particular
site, only accesses for that site. If you set up spoofing, then you do
sometime have to go back and adjust settings to match current versions
of what you're spoofing.
As for Windows 10 and Seamonkey, I don't see any issues there. I'm
currently running 1809 for my daily work, and I have a current version
of 2.53.1 running on a 1903 installation in a VM, and not seeing any
issues, although I haven't really exercised the 2.53.1/1903 combination yet.
I suggest going ahead with the Win 10 installation, install 2.49.5, and
do spoofing (as described above) where needed, and don't worry about
compatibility issues.
Smith
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