Discussion of general topics about Seamonkey
LuvKomputrs

Posts: 664Joined: June 9th, 2010, 8:15 am
Posted January 25th, 2019, 1:13 pm
tonymec wrote:LuvKomputrs wrote:Checking out some of the SeaMonkey unofficial builds from here. http://www.wg9s.com/Trying to decide about using 2.53 until the next official release of SeaMonkey roles out. Anyone have any suggestions on one that they particularly like or recommend? Am also making sure to back up my profile for 2.49.4 and then use another profile setting for 2.53.
Me too I use WG9S's 2.53. The first time I did, I backed out my profile, but I've had no problems with it, it works beautifully AFAICT: I never had to roll back that backup.
Thanks very much for the suggestion. 
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LuvKomputrs

Posts: 664Joined: June 9th, 2010, 8:15 am
Posted January 25th, 2019, 1:53 pm
Just got a copy of SeaMonkey 2.53 and extracted the files from the zip folder. Got it on my d: drive. Using a separate profile from my SeaMonkey 2.49.4.
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frg
Posts: 1042Joined: December 15th, 2015, 1:20 pm
Posted January 25th, 2019, 2:22 pm
> Trying to decide about using 2.53 until the next official release of SeaMonkey roles out.  > Anyone have any suggestions on one that they particularly like or recommend? > Am also making sure to back up my profile for 2.49.4 and then use another profile setting for 2.53. Any non security/crash fixes will probably land only in 2.53 unless they are really easy to backport. Anything with l10n changes will not land in 2.49.x at all. For stability 2.49.x. If you want to test things 2.53 because most of the stuff will end up in 2.57 too. But always keep a known working 2.53 installer around. I already broke things a few times and even while I am using this daily now I didn't notice in time. FRG
LuvKomputrs

Posts: 664Joined: June 9th, 2010, 8:15 am
Posted January 25th, 2019, 2:49 pm
frg wrote:Any non security/crash fixes will probably land only in 2.53 unless they are really easy to backport. Anything with l10n changes will not land in 2.49.x at all. For stability 2.49.x. If you want to test things 2.53 because most of the stuff will end up in 2.57 too. But always keep a known working 2.53 installer around. I already broke things a few times and even while I am using this daily now I didn't notice in time.
FRG
Thanks very much for the helpful information. Have got also a backup of the known working installer for 2.53 and the zip file. Am also very interested in the time frame for the release of 2.57. Anne aka LuvKomputrs 
Snake4
Posts: 1165Joined: December 27th, 2017, 4:03 amLocation: Australia
Posted February 9th, 2019, 9:31 pm
frg
Posts: 1042Joined: December 15th, 2015, 1:20 pm
Posted February 21st, 2019, 9:53 am
> IMO i think it is You are entitled to think what you want but unless you see an official announcement it isn't. For some, including me, there is unfortunately no user friedly replacement product available so you won't see this announcement in the near future. We are still commited to get new releases out. Unofficial 2.49.5 and 2.53 releases can be found here: http://www.wg9s.com/
DanRaisch
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Posts: 124488Joined: September 23rd, 2004, 8:57 pmLocation: Somewhere on the right coast
Posted February 21st, 2019, 10:40 am
Alright folks, keep things civil here or this topic will be locked.
Snake4
Posts: 1165Joined: December 27th, 2017, 4:03 amLocation: Australia
Posted February 21st, 2019, 3:32 pm
DanRaisch wrote:Alright folks, keep things civil here or this topic will be locked.
might be a wise idea to lock it now. only if FRG is OK to that since he made the thread. sorry my bad, this guy did stevensegalfan4000
tonymec

Posts: 732Joined: October 15th, 2004, 2:58 amLocation: Ixelles (Brussels Capital Region, Belgium)
Posted February 21st, 2019, 6:45 pm
Mouse4 wrote:DanRaisch wrote:Alright folks, keep things civil here or this topic will be locked.
might be a wise idea to lock it now. only if FRG is OK to that since he made the thread. sorry my bad, this guy did stevensegalfan4000
frg is one of the few SeaMonkey developers left: if he says SeaMonkey isn't yet dead then it isn't. Rather than have this topic locked, I'd rather see repeat offenders banned, but I don't know if it is possible. I know that moderators can move off-topic posts out of the thread but of course it is more work for them and above a certain frequency of off-topic and/or bad-language posts it might not be desirable.
Best regards,
Tony
Snake4
Posts: 1165Joined: December 27th, 2017, 4:03 amLocation: Australia
Posted February 21st, 2019, 7:25 pm
tonymec wrote:Mouse4 wrote:DanRaisch wrote:Alright folks, keep things civil here or this topic will be locked.
might be a wise idea to lock it now. only if FRG is OK to that since he made the thread. sorry my bad, this guy did stevensegalfan4000
frg is one of the few SeaMonkey developers left: if he says SeaMonkey isn't yet dead then it isn't. Rather than have this topic locked, I'd rather see repeat offenders banned, but I don't know if it is possible. I know that moderators can move off-topic posts out of the thread but of course it is more work for them and above a certain frequency of off-topic and/or bad-language posts it might not be desirable.
as FRG said above, im entitled to My Opinion. just no need to be Hostile about it. example, this post. viewtopic.php?p=14824751#p14824751 , there was no need for that
frg
Posts: 1042Joined: December 15th, 2015, 1:20 pm
Posted February 22nd, 2019, 3:28 pm
Personally I am unhappy with the whole situation but can't do much about it other than trying to continue fixing up the source. As stated before I don't know what willl happen after 2.57 or when 2.57 is ready.
Closing this thread. Not sure. Always happy to read about new ideas or opinions. I am an admin on another non software related forum and usually just let discussions run unless it really gets out of hand and end in name calling or profanity without any arguments. I usually start stripping posts then. Fortunately very seldom needed.
FRG
Wish You Were Here
Posts: 126Joined: April 10th, 2010, 1:39 am
Posted February 22nd, 2019, 3:58 pm
My wish is for SM to continue and regain prominence. I really don't understand what's happening or why. I don't understand letting whoever dictate what can or can't be. I'm pretty irritated. I've used this since the early days of Netscape and it's really the only one I'm comfortable with.
I won't use Chrome or FF. Never have, never will.
Snake4
Posts: 1165Joined: December 27th, 2017, 4:03 amLocation: Australia
Posted February 22nd, 2019, 6:45 pm
Wish You Were Here wrote:My wish is for SM to continue and regain prominence. I really don't understand what's happening or why. I don't understand letting whoever dictate what can or can't be. I'm pretty irritated. I've used this since the early days of Netscape and it's really the only one I'm comfortable with.
I won't use Chrome or FF. Never have, never will.
your probably better off to use Chromium than Chrome.
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