Best version ever put out in the 2 serious is 2.0x version. From 2. on
goes down hill fast.
Ken wrote:
Gratitude to Philip Taylor for his response. Thanks, Philip. I saw one
of your earlier posts (I think it was yours) about unwanted tabs in SM
2.2 and understood and sympathised completely.
Please, anyone, what earlier version of SM might you recommend as
particularly stable?
Also - slightly off topic - can anyone tell me how to kill the box that
opens every time I come here asking whether I want to compress my
folders? (My answer would be - please tell me if I'm wrong - 'No, of
course I don't want to do that unless I'm running out of space, but with
a new computer and a vast hard drive, that seems to me hardly likely' -
but the box gives me no such option, i.e., to say 'No', nor does it have
a 'Don't show me this box in the future' option.)
- Ken (in Oz)
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Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
Ken --
Hi guys. I have already posted the following as an adjunct to other
threads but got no response. I will clarify below what I am seeking:
>Looks like I can't go back to SM 2.0.18 (I think it was - but it may
have been 2.0.11). The 'Known Issues' note for SM 2.2 is headed (in
bold), 'Data loss warning' and continues: 'If you use a profile with
this or any later version and then try to go back to SeaMonkey 2.0,
SeaMonkey will rename your history file to places.sqlite.corrupt and
create a new places.qlite file, effectively resetting your browsing
history.'
>Well, I don't pretend to understand all of that, but it does seem to
be saying that I will lose data if I try to restore the SM version I
had before. No?
It would seem, from the text you cite and from the "Known issues" page :
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.2/#issues
that the only expected data loss is your browsing history. Given that
most of us now operate in "paranoid" mode, and clear the browser history
on browser exit anyway, this does not seem to represent a serious risk.
Like you, and like some other contributors to this list since the
announcement/release of V2.2, I too feel that V2.2 has fixed far
too much that "ain't broke" in the first place -- incremental releases
should (IMHO) address security concerns, evolving standards such
as CSS, and similar core issues, reserving major behavioural changes
such as the new "must use tabs" philosophy and the no-longer-optional
installation of Chatzilla for optional major release (i.e., Seamonkey 3).
Philip Taylor. who understands the "the world must move on" philosophy,
but who nonetheless finds Windows/XP, Classic View, Office 2003
and so on infinitely more user friendly than any of the more recent
developments).
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com
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