On 10/29/2019 7:08 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
Hawker wrote:
I'm sticking with 2.49.5 right now. I don't really want to move to the
newer builds until they are more official I don't think.
That said there is an increasing number of websites that no longer
work in SM with any UI string that work in FireFox. I wonder how many
of them will be fixed in a newer SM but not sure how much longer I can
wait.
So what is realistic? Will we have a 2.5x.y build some time in the
next 6 months or what is realistic?
And if I do want to try something built on a newer engine what version
of SM is the safest yet sufficiently newer for Windowz 7? And where
should I get it from?
We are wanting to do at least 2 2.53.1 betas this year. Basically Bills
2.53.1 will become an official release. A few private patches from me /
Bill and work in progress fixes will be dropped from it then.
http://www.wg9s.com/comm-253/
We are currently fixing and backporting bugs left and right. In parallel
we are setting up an official gitlab repo for it. We don't want to check
in around 3000 patches into a release branch in the official mozilla
repos. The gods owning them might not be amused then.
All fixes for SeaMonkey go into the later branches too but 2.57 is not
usable yet with mail broken.
Yesterdays 2.53.1 had a bug with mail delete. Next one will fix it.
If you try it please backup your profile. You will not be able to go
back to 2.49.5. Will be upgraded (compatible with the upcoming official).
If you use a master paxsword remove it before upgrading and reapply later.
FRG
Thank you for this great and thorough reply and all the info you gave
below as well. This was exactly the clear concise information I was
looking for.
Also thank you very much for your work on the project against all the
odds and lack of help. Some of us are still really hooked on SM.
Speaking for me I see the handwriting on the wall and assume with x.57
being the end of the line (and a late release) I will need to move on at
some point. I have tried to move to other browsers but I don't like any
of them. FF has a few deal breakers in how it handles privacy that make
it not usable for me and others lack features I depend on.
It reminds me of how long I clinged to Netscape 4.8 until MozSuite
caught up.
If Email is the big issue with the new releases that is a non issue for
me. Alas I had to move my e-mail to TB a couple years ago when it became
apparent SM would not get TBs search capabilities and the SM mail client
was getting crazy sluggish and having trouble handling my huge e-mail
base that TB didn't seem to have issues with. I kept having to split
directories to smaller chunks so it was usable and not sluggish, a
problem TB didn't have. I don't care for TB as much as SM but I had to
much e-mail to have those issues on my work files.
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