SeaMonkey 2.53.1

Re:SeaMonkey 2.53.1 by untog on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:34AM (#22443422)

> The current Mozilla Gecko codebase has seen a flow of constant major changes and api removals in the last 2 years and is no longer really usable for our needs. By the end of the year the SeaMonkey project is expected to be completely independent of Mozilla

Wow, that’s... something. Keeping a browser engine of that size maintained independently is going to be quite a task.

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Re:SeaMonkey 2.53.1 by TingPing on Friday February 28, 2020 @05:53PM (#22447164)

It's simply not possible without a large well funded team.

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Re:SeaMonkey 2.53.1 by rubidium on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:47PM (#22447497)

I really don’t understand this. All my current browsers don’t need more features. They didnt 5 years ago either.

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Re:SeaMonkey 2.53.1 by untog on Friday February 28, 2020 @06:53PM (#22447539)

There are security updates, for one.

Plus there are a bunch of CSS improvements and the like in the last five years. If you don’t keep up with the competition your users are going to see broken sites eventually.

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