Re: What happens next?
Again I ask, is Seamonkey Ubiquitous like Firefox? No.
Is Seamonkey offered, exposed, shown to users as an option when they
view Linux Package alternatives in the software/application package
repo/kiosk after the install process? Seldom it seems.
More below...
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:08 +0100 Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
MRoss-GMX wrote:
Fri, 21 Feb 2020 01:11 -0800 00001lehme...@web.de wrote:
Because I believe that Seamonkey would find more friends again if it
is updated automatically and regularly.
That would certainly help of course!
With total respect for everybody reading and those responding to this
list, certainly to Seamonkey developers:
Question: Is Seamonkey Ubiquitous like Firefox?
Until Seamonkey is distributed and installable like Firefox has been,
available via every repository/kiosk possible, it will not receive
attention, interest, nor respect from ignorant users. --
(Ignorant means lack of knowing!, Not Stupid Nor Dumb!)
I don't think that SeaMonkey is suitable for every user. The trend is to dumb
down software and unless the interface is simple and the program does
everything right you would just be flooded with support tickets. Looking
aorund I see people even more helpless than 20 years before when they have a
problem. So SM will probably stay as a niche browser for power usewrs.
I am sure you are correct about Seamonkey not being for everybody! No
application is for everybody! That is the beauty of Linux compared to
MS Windows, and all the possible applications we have access to in
Linux, more often than not.
Yet Seamonkey is hidden to most everybody loading Ubuntu - the prime
Linux spearhead for years now, and others like Mint, Debian, Fedora,
..., and recently I now see SUSE is coming up to the top ten installed
packages(I thank the post for the info; from another thread fork).
I missed reviewing SUSE recently as I did not like it 5-6 years ago,
and so did not find it had Seamonkey in the repo/kiosk. I thank the
other poster here for enlightening me on SUSE, I missed it. Yet the
issue remains; Seamonkey is still basically hidden.
Seamonkey is far easier to use than Firefox and Thunderbird, from my
experience, and from other People I correspond with. Both FF and TB
cause me to stumble, it's irritating. Seamonkey is more natural
somehow, easier to use, and People I know agree. It is far more
capable too. Firefox is missing too much of what SM offers.
One guy I know tossed his Acer Aspire 5050 AMD Turion 64 computer in
the trash over FF and webmail pages, refused to even look further. I
use it now - this is it talking to you with Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS and
Seamonkey 2.49.5! The guy now uses an LG Tracfone for everything, his
wife suffers an MS Windows mess she hates. So agitated were they I
was unable to get them to even look at Linux nor anything else. Damage
done. They are now Dvoid Google-Android users - mostly. Including
their Android TV system via cable; a Walmart offering.
If money would really help Seamonkey, we all need to donate as best we
can. But only to Seamonkey, not to Mozilla nor Firefox. Seamonkey
needs support, developers, liberated.
Monkey is needed to pay the bills for azure builders and the other servers.
More needed are people dedicated to help and able to work it out with minimal
guiding.
FRG
Gotcha. Understand. Thanks for writing, and all your help and efforts!
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