On 31/12/10 04:16, NoOp wrote:
[...]
OK, it was marked as RESOLVED as in:
This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 613199 ***
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613199
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: SeaMonkey
Hence, it was technically marked as FIXED.
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_activity.cgi?id=531210>
At bugzilla.mozilla.org, FIXED means fixed-on-trunk. There are also some
flags and keywords to indicate that, in addition, a bug has been fixed
on some other branch.
In your OP you asked, what good is there in staying with SeaMonkey?
That's for every user to judge for him- or herself. The fact that this
product is maintained by a small group of unpaid volunteers, as an
all-in-one Suite uniting a Firefox-like browser, a Thunderbird-like
mail/news/RSS client, a chat client, and more, all in a single
executable program and the libraries that go with it, will be seen by
some as an advantage, by others as a blemish.
Myself, I have in the past felt as "just a number" in the mass of
not-listened-to users of Firefox, where features on which I depended
have repeatedly been sacked by the developers, for no good reason or for
some obviously false reason (like "no one uses it" and "it is not
discoverable" for something -the throbber link- that I had discovered
without help, and used). With SeaMonkey, in my experience, the
developers listen better to what the users have to say — or maybe I'm
lulling myself with illusions and have just found a group of developers
with the same values as mine; anyway I feel more at home with SeaMonkey
than I ever did with Firefox (or, worse, with Konqueror or of course
with Internet Explorer). But the SeaMonkey developers are fewer than
Firefox's, none of them is paid by Mozilla (unlike Firefox's), and they
don't have as many machines at their disposal as are used to maintain
three or four parallel branches of the Firefox code: with SeaMonkey, it
seems that two's the limit: one trunk undergoing active development, and
in a kind of "state of flux", continually changing especially when
labeled "alpha" or even "beta", and one "stable" branch whose behaviour
will not fundamentally change between one day and the next or even one
month and the next: this gives extension developers some confidence that
it is worth their while to develop extensions for it, but it also means
no new features. Bugs, however, especially important bugs, still get
fixed, even on the "stable" branch, if a fix can be found for them. Of
course, it can happen that, for some bug, no fix is found (yet): then of
course that bug doesn't (yet) get fixed.
So, make your own choice: it may be other than mine (I've been using
SeaMonkey trunk nightlies for some time even if, unlike WLS, I have
problems getting Lightning to work with them) because you are not me;
that's why it's important to *have* a choice, one thing to which the
not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation is dedicated.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict:
5. You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to search.
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