Hawker wrote:
On 4/21/2020 4:24 AM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
Ray_Net wrote:
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote on 19-04-20 13:29:
Yamo' wrote:
Hi,
So the questions are:
- Could I pass from 2.49.1 to 2.57 in one step ?
No. NSS is no longer backwoard compatible. We need to soon put a hard block
in to go thru 2.53.1 to .3 first.
- What is approximately the release date of the 2.57 version ?
At least a year or two away with the current resources.
We either keep up with 2.53 or do 2.57 full time. The later is not an option.
I'm not sure I understand this. Given the lack of resources wouldn't it make
the most sense to get 2.53.x to some point "good enough" as quickly as you
can, maybe once 2.53.2 drops then let it go and move on to 2.57? I realize
that could leave 2.53 in bad shape, but we had that with 2.49 and it would be
really nice to get SM to a more current engine with less website compatibility
issues. The more y'all delay working on newer versions the more behind SM gets
and the more folks move to a new tool.
2.53 is not in good shape. It works supergreat for me but at least the
mailnews part still needs a big overhaul. Practically all changes we do for
2.53 go into 2.57 and up in parallel so future versions benefit. And every
time I look closer at 2.57 I find something mozilla broke. Technically
SeaMonkey is now at 2.74 and still compiles fine but I am not sure I want to
ever tackle fixing it up to this level. Much removed and minor benefit from a
usablility perspective. If it were not for js and css compatibility I say to
the hell with it. Well when we are at 2.57 we need to decide. Given the
current Firefox market share or lack of it Gecko might even come to an end in
the next years. Just my personal opinion btw.
Not sure why you cling to ABP and 2.49.1 (this one is even more obsolete).
Clinging to ABP for me is because it took me several days to get it working
the way I wanted years ago. I had to find various lists, see which ones worked
better than others. Deal with broken websites (which often required different
lists). lots of research and configurations work I don't particularly like to
do and would rather use my time for other things. I know I need to move on
but don't want to invest the time right now to do the same with uBlock
I always ended up added custom filters to ABP. I seldom need to tweak uBlock
and memory usage did go down alot.
FRG
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