Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, jeffrey d anderson wrote:

> 
> Mozilla is not supported by the Mozilla.org anymore.  There is seamonkey 
> which is mozilla but with community support.
> 
> Firefox/thunderbird should be able to handle the mozilla/seamonkey duties.
> 
> The issue with putting in seamonkey is that there are many security 
> changes to seamonkey.  There is quite a bit of work keeping it updated.


I prefer seamonkey over firefox because some of the babies were thrown 
out including:
  The Window menu. I use it a lot.
  The open-new-tab button. I have to drop the mouse and fond ^T to open 
a new tab.
  Better selection on Tools menu.

Against Mozilla/Seamonkey are

  its memory leak. It's been there for years, people (including me) have 
reported it, but "We can't reproduce it" they say. I can't avoid it:-(. 
(I'm not convinced Firefox doesn't have it too).

  The latest seamonkey build is a little buggier than I'm used to.



> 
>>
>> I've managed to build them for our use here, but it sure would be 
>> preferable
>> to have them part of the distribution rather than having to hunt down 
>> source
>> rpms from various Fedora releases and then hack at the spec files.
> 
> Yes that is the issue.  Someone would have to hunt down source rpms and 
> hack at the spec files.
> 
>>
>> I realize that the big issue with these "addon" packages is long-term
>> maintenance, but the removal of these packages from the distribution is a
>> little alarming.  Someone here even mentioned that there was talk of 
>> removing
> 
> I understand why mozilla/seamonkey is not included.  Firefox/thunderbird 
> should cover that space.  Is there something that is not covered by 
> Firefox/thunderbird?
> 
>> emacs!  Imagine that.
>>
>>
> 
> -Connie Sieh
> 


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Cheers
John

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