On 09/09/16 6:03 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: >> WaltS48 composed on 2016-09-09 09:22 (UTC-0400): >> >>> I think the SeaMonkey developers should base the next version on Gecko >>> 45 ESR (which would have been SM 2.42), call it SM 2.45 and bring it up >>> to date with the Firefox ESR security and stability releases. I think >>> that would make it currently SM 2.45.3.0. >> >> Notwithstanding SM's limited resource pool, I don't get why a similar >> proposal wasn't taken to heart long long ago. > > Because its no good. The codebase currently isn't the problem. There are a few > minor problems in the tree caused by Mozilla changes like unable to set a > default search provider. But these all have workarounds. The real problem is > with building and distributing an update thru official mozilla servers. If > this would work for ESR it would also work for 2.45 or 2.46 next week. Ewong > is on it but it might be some time till we see a release. > > In the mean time if you need a new release grab 2.45 from Adrian if you are on > Windows or Linux. His releases are build from the original sources and bug > reports against them are accepted: > > https://l10n.mozilla-community.org/~akalla/unofficial/seamonkey/nightly/ > > 2.47a2 is also stable at the moment but I would recommend 2.45 or 2.46. Make > sure you use a build after 09/02 because I goofed and earlier ones didn't > always show the favicon correctly (ok minor problem you might not even > notice...). > > FRG I've been using 2.47a2 for about a week and have, so far, not noticed any problems in my usage. ☺
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