Ken Rudolph wrote:
Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:
Ken Rudolph wrote:
After all these years (since Netscape 1.0) I've basically given up on
the SeaMonkey browser, replacing it with Firefox. However, out of
habit and utility, I still use SeaMonkey 2.49.1 for e-mail and
Composer for updating my web site (I have separate links to open only
those portions of the suite). This means when I click on an e-mail
link it opens the SeaMonkey browser in a separate window...which is
OK by me usually. More often I just ^C the link and then paste it in
Firefox.
This is working fine for me. I've always been scared in the past
when I had to manually do a SeaMonkey version update. It always did
work; but I had nervous moments fearful that I'd lose my profile etc.
Obviously I haven't updated SeaMonkey for a while now. I see the
current version is 2.53.3. So here's my question. In my situation,
should I do the SeaMonkey update just for the e-mail and composer
parts? Would there be some major advantage to doing the update?
Everything that I need to do with the SeaMonkey portions other than
the browser itself is working fine. Do I need to do the update to
the entire suite for some reason?
Thank you for Mozilla, however I use it!!
You can't update "just the e-mail and composer parts", it is one
program. I have absolutely no idea which Thunderbird fixes have gone
in since 2.49.1, very little has happened with composer. Lightning is
now included, it was not back then.
If you do upgrade - and I see no reason not to - there are a couple of
things you need to worry about:
- Starting 2.49.5, Seamonkey comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. If
you are going to move to a 64-bit version, UNINSTALL THE OLD VERSION
> BEFORE INSTALLING THE NEW ONE. This is because installing a 64-bit
version will not remove a 32-bit version, something which can have
fatal side-effects.
I'm not sure if I have the 32 or 64 bit version of SeaMonkey. I do see
this in "about":
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:52.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1
Does that x64 mean 64 bit version even if it is SM 2.49.1?
I've never worried about that in previous updates to SM. But now you
have me thinking that I better know whether to uninstall my current
version (something that worries me) or not if it is the 32-bit version.
Thank you for the advice!
The first (Windows) Seamonkey which offered a 64-bit version officially
was 2.49.5. You have 2.49.1, so unless you downloaded an unofficial
build from a different site - and I'm assuming you'd remember doing that
- you have a 32-bit version.
That User Agent is a bit weird, I have looked up some old messages here
and seen:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
SeaMonkey/2.49.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1
If you do update - download a 64-bit 2.53.3, uninstall your old
Seamonkey, backup the profile and install the new one.
--
spammo ergo sum, viruses courtesy of https://www.nsa.gov/malware/
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