Roger Fink wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- >> On 12/22/2016 6:48 PM, Edmund Wong wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> (this is a personal note, so any flak should be directed to me only and >>> no one else). >>> >>> While this is in the soon-to-be-released release notes, I felt it's >>> prudent that I post this here. >>> >>> SeaMonkey 2.46 took it's not-so-sweet time in being released due to a >>> plethora of issues (I am so damn glad at least others are more on the >>> ball than I am -- namely frg whose more clear-headed than I am). That >>> said, there is one major issue. >>> >>> SeaMonkey 2.40 will be the *last* version that supports non-CPU SSE >>> enabled systems. 2.44 (or maybe 2.43) *was* supposed to be the version >>> that gave users the 'your system will no longer be supported due to >>> it not having a SSE-enabled CPU' message (or something like that). >>> Unfortunately, 2.44 was skipped (as was 2.43 and 2.45) and so this >>> will come to users as a surprise (especially those installing the >>> full installer). >>> >>> Since I have no knowledge (we lost this metric awhile ago) of how many >>> users we really have, I don't know how many are affected by this >>> and I suspect we won't know unless someone speaks out here or >>> anywhere. If you are affected, please use 2.40. >>> >>> My humblest apologies for suddenly springing this version on the user >>> base without mentioning it anywhere beforehand (the bug that dealt with >>> this change slipped off my radar). >>> >>> >>> Edmund >>> >>> >> Is there a method by which an end-user can determine if a PC has a CPU >> that is SSE enabled? My wife's PC was built in 2010 with an Intel >> Pentium processor, but I cannot tell if it is Pentium 4, which is where >> SSE first appeared. >> > You can install Piriform Speccy, free or paid version, and check it > under the CPU heading. FWIW: Speccy on my computer shows the following re: SSE: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, Intel 64, NX, AVX _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
