On 01/29/2010 03:36 PM, Russell wrote: > As someone who's been on the web since the beginning with Mosaic , then > Netscape, then AOL Netscape (ugh) , then Netscape re-born as Seamonkey, it's a > sad day to have to give up and move on, > > The end comes with v2.x, Seamonkey and the decision to no longer be a simple > browser, but that it must be an ‘all or nothing' suite. So if you need to use > another email client then it will just screw up your whole way of working.
Really? And early versions of Netscape were just simple browsers? I still have both Mosaic and Netscape on disk, including a version of the first Netscape w/support license. I suppose I could pull it out of the archives (shelf) and check it, but I seem to recall that it included an email client. > > I'm convinced that this was a ‘behind the doors' decision with the Firefox > crowd > to justify Mozilla supporting a second browser project, and they then agreed > that Seamonkey would only continue as an integrated suite, and that's the only > way users will be able to use it (fatal error imo). What on earth are you talking about? > > The Firefox crowd will be happy to hear that I know of at least 5 users (this > week alone) who have moved to other browsers as there is no upgrade path for > them beyond v1.1.18. Meanwhile Firefox continues to offer an email client > (Thunderbird) as a OPTION and that's probably where they will go, as have I, > for > now. But this whole thing smacks of nasty backroom BS. I'll hold my nose and > use > Firefox for now. But it's sad to have to say goodbye to a browser I've used > and > promoted for so many years. > > R. Bye. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
