Sea Monkey–new release

[Member greyowl]

Sea Monkey has come out with a new release 2.53.9 on August 26, 2021.
Currently the repos have version 2.53.8.1.
I’m wondering when the new version will be available in the repos.
Thanks.

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Put a package request in.
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewforum.php?f=55

If in a hurry. Or be patient and wait.

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New version now in repos (mirrors may need time to sync).

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Nice! Thanks for your hard work… It will be nice if this newer version can be included in antiX 21 out of the box, that may be useful for users with low bandwidth or unreliable internet – seamonkey runs much better than firefox on lower powered pcs, and, like I commented before, it adds a more modern looking email client plus a nice gui calendar out of the box – making antiX even more usable out of the box in an office setting!

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@anticapitalista

Thanks you.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by greyowl.

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@rokytnji

Thanks for the information.

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I love seamonkey as well, thanks for including it in AntiX. But I do think it should be classified primarily as an email/calendar client rather than a browser. E.g. when searching for Seamonkey add-ons or extensions you get sent to addons.thunderbird.net rather than addons.mozilla.org. (Seamonkey = Thunderbird-60 ESR + Firefox 60 ESR + IRC + HTML Compose). Over the years I’ve found that Seamonkey is a more stable/reliable email program than Thunderbird is whereas its browser runs into many websites that it can’t handle very well (thanks to Chrome’s dominance probably).

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@tjhSM,

It depends on what kind of equipment you have. If you have a more modern computer, that could run MX KDE or Debian Gnome, then there are better browsers to choose from. But if your computer is as old as dirt and needs antiX installed to even simulate a modern operating system then SeaMonkey is a great alternative browser. But yes, you will have to hunt down “Legacy” add-ons.

Another good alternative is Otter-Browser. Or Palemoon. But I usually role with SeaMonkey.

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Very few of my systems are too old to run most any Web browser, but several of them do benefit from the frugality found in somewhat lighter Web browsers. You do lose some of the newest technologies when you use Seamonkey, but it is, and has always been a solid browser. Moreover, those who like an Email client can also set up the Mail component; I’ve done that in the past too.

I’ve found that Palemoon is not that far removed from the recent generations of Firefox to offer a more than satisfactory alternative in a significantly lighter footprint. I give it a big “thumbs up”; in fact there aren’t too many site that I use that have any difficulties with Palemoon.

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I’m using the latest Seamonkey release 2.53.9 on the Puppy variant Easy OS (Live).
In the recent past, when I used Seamonkey with Email clients, such as Yahoo Mail or GMail, Seamonkey worked, but did not always display the content in full-featured form. That has been corrected in this instance. I’ll check it elsewhere. Anyway, since that’s the case, either Seamonkey or Palemoon are effective, working for most common Web pages.

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By the way, checking on the Easy OS Seamonkey configuration, the string
general.useragent.compatMode.strict-firefox in the about:config page is set to True.

This allows things to work in a similar fashion to Firefox, yet Seamonkey has more “compiled” code components, so it is somewhat lighter, faster, and more efficient than Firefox. Like Palemoon, this makes Seamonkey an effective alternative to Firefox. Given that Netscape and Mozilla existed ~20-25 years ago, BEFORE Firefox, the Seamonkey derivative that descends directly from Netscape/Mozilla heritage, works with only a modest increase in resource requirements over its ancestors.

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websites that it can’t handle very well (thanks to Chrome’s dominance probably)

Not specific to chromium. It’s a side-effect of decisions foisted upon us by the World_Wide_Web_Consortium (aka W3C) regarding “modern” web standards.

Thunderbird and SeaMonkey users among us ~~ I’m curious to hear whether or not “CSP Level 2” and “CSP Level 3” is are reported as green (supported) when you visit this compatibility test page:
https://content-security-policy.com/browser-test/

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Anonymous wrote:

websites that it can’t handle very well (thanks to Chrome’s dominance probably)

Not specific to chromium. It’s a side-effect of decisions foisted upon us by the World_Wide_Web_Consortium (aka W3C) regarding “modern” web standards.

Thunderbird and SeaMonkey users among us ~~ I’m curious to hear whether or not “CSP Level 2” and “CSP Level 3” is reported as green (supported) when you visit this compatibility test page:
https://content-security-policy.com/browser-test/

NOPE! Seamonkey, in the recent release 2.53.9 passes only the first test and fails the others.

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Just out of curiosity, I’ll check the same with Palemoon and see if it does any better.

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Tried Firefox 88.1 _something still included in some not up-to-date distros; it passes a couple of tests and fails at least TWO of them.

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