Interviewed by CNN on 13/05/2012 08:35, lightandho...@bellsouth.net told the world: > I recently got back on my old windows 2000 OS system due to tech > problems with my XP machine-I just want to thank the SeaMonkey team > for maintaining compatibility with Win2k! :)
Uhhh... you know, this might not be the best time for these particular thanks... Thing is, AFAIK, Firefox will drop Win2000 (and XP pre-SP2, by the way) on the next release, Firefox 13, due June 5th. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end_of_firefox_win2k.html Since Seamonkey depends on a lot of technology that comes from Firefox, I'm guessing that Seamonkey will *have* to drop Win2k next month with version 2.10, too. Of course, you can keep using version 2.9.1 (or, for that matter, Firefox 12 and Thunderbird 12) indefinitely -- but it will be unsupported, that is, any bugs on it (including security bugs) will never get fixed. Short term, if you want a *supported* Mozilla product that runs on Win2k, your best bet would be to go with the Firefox 10 ESR (Extended Support Release). That will get security (and possibly stability) patches for roughly one year since Firefox 10 was launched, that is, about the end of January 2013. Thunderbird and Seamonkey don't have ESR releases, as far as I know. Sorry. >From February 2013 onwards, there will be no supported Mozilla product for Win2k. It's possible (but not guaranteed) that Opera will still support Windows 2000 by then. All other major browser vendors (Microsoft, Apple, Google) have already dropped Win2k. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Sharp pocket calculator. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.9 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey