Il 29/09/24 21:42, Dale ha scritto:
ralfconn wrote:
Funny, [4] suggests going back to seamonkey for movemail support. I
once was a happy seamonkey user then switched to FF/TB because SM
seemed unmaintained, but from the website it looks like it's still
alive and kicking.
raf
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741#c35
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1802145
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625741#c81
I think Seamonkey mostly gets bug fixes and updates so that it compiles
with new tools and works with newer software. I don't think it gets
much else. I am constantly running into sites that don't work right or
even load with Seamonkey but work fine with Firefox. Some may recall
the massive Firefox rewrite a few years ago. Once Firefox got the kinks
worked out, it was a huge improvement. Also, add-ons were redone as
well. Seamonkey needs to do the same because there are few add-ons that
work with Seamonkey now. You have to use the old add-ons, if you can
find them, to use anything and almost none of them get updated. As a
example, I switched from Lastpass to Bitwarden. I have to use Lastpass
on any site I want to access that uses passwords because Bitwarden
doesn't have a up to date add-on for Seamonkey. Lastpass doesn't
either. It's still stuck on the last version since Firefox did it's
rewrite and add-on change. Yea, no security updates either. Basically,
the only reason I still have Lastpass, it was already installed. If I
were to remove Lastpass, I may not be able to get it back. If it
stopped working, it would be dead. There is no update for it in
Seamonkey.
In my opinion, Seamonkey is slowly dying unless enough people step up
and update it to work like Firefox, including add-ons, and is coded in a
way that websites work like Firefox does. I mostly use it for the email
part and would like to switch but I don't like Thunderbird to much.
Links is my biggest problem. If I click on a link, it wants to open a
new instance of Firefox instead of asking me which instance I want to
open in with a new tab. As I type, I have four instances of Firefox
open. Each one had a different set of add-ons installed and are used
for different tasks. When I click on a link, I just need it to open in
a new tab and ask me where to do it.
If anyone were to ask me if they should start using Seamonkey, I'd say
no. It worries me that at some point, it isn't even going to work well
enough just for the email part. That is about the only part of it that
really works OK. For web browsing, it's Firefox for 99% of things I do
here. As it is, I have to copy links in Seamonkey email and then paste
the link in a new tab in Firefox on occasion. It's annoying.
Thanks Dale, great explanation (as usual!)
raf
