From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Tue Aug 13 22:24:07 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B767BF4C1 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:24:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from dnvrco-cmomta02.email.rr.com (dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.73.231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 467S1L2pLLz4Vkq for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:24:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from localhost ([96.28.161.151]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id xf4uhBDOliYm2xf4yhziVU; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:15:46 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:15:13 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox References: <0eeb4921-b8a5-f0f8-f568-80b240a73aec@hawaii-pacific.com> <23888.59649.122277.267681@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfE/CC2kz6sDotlQA7Hhh/rZewYzZd+HLmlpi1OX8LVYtthpJqcXrMNE2Xwso6YRdhJQ8pzTGv1ubssLGY8el89E2XzqK4DCEpqbikz4VLIdNB7NL01zM WSiLzKcZYLwbYH0WxjOpitYNuUCnn/oi/QvSgeOPAQI6WwO4RdtiofMd X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 467S1L2pLLz4Vkq X-Spamd-Bar: +++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of mueller6722@twc.com designates 107.14.73.231 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=mueller6722@twc.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [5.35 / 15.00]; R_MISSING_CHARSET(2.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:107.14.73.0/24]; MISSING_MIME_VERSION(2.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; BROKEN_CONTENT_TYPE(1.50)[]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[twc.com]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[151.161.28.96.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.10]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[twc.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7843, ipnet:107.14.73.0/24, country:US]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.98)[-0.982,0]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:~]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.97)[-0.965,0]; IP_SCORE_FREEMAIL(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[twc.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MISSING_MID(2.50)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[231.73.14.107.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; IP_SCORE(0.00)[ip: (-6.06), ipnet: 107.14.73.0/24(-2.84), asn: 7843(-2.28), country: US(-0.05)]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; GREYLIST(0.00)[pass,body] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:24:07 -0000 bruce writes: > I used seamonkey for years without problems.  Now with seamonkey no > longer available I have tried firefox.  It crashes regularly and > isn't nearly as good as seamonkey.  When are you bringing seamonkey > back? Robert Huff responded: Short answer: probably never. Longer answer: 1) it is (I believe) no longer developed/maintained upstream. 2) the port does not have a local maintainer. 3) it has a long list of security issues, which persisted for months if not years. I, too, will miss it. But in the larger scheme of things this probably the path of wisdom. (Now ... if you are volunteering to revive it, assume maintainership, and contribute patches - thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!!) I went to www.seamonkey-project.org last night. Seamonkey looked alive, but last update was over a year ago (July 27, 2019 as I best remember): 2.49.4 . I looked in FreeBSD ports tree, which I track using svn: www/seamonkey was not there. But www/seamonkey is still in (NetBSD) pkgsrc. >From the Makefile, it looks like there is no maintainer: DISTNAME= seamonkey-${SM_VER}.source PKGNAME= seamonkey-${SM_VER:S/b/beta/} PKGREVISION= 13 SM_VER= 2.49.4 CATEGORIES= www MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_MOZILLA:=seamonkey/releases/${SM_VER}/source/} EXTRACT_SUFX= .tar.xz MAINTAINER= pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org HOMEPAGE= http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ COMMENT= Full-featured gecko-based browser One suggestion from me is www/otter-browser, available in FreeBSD ports, NetBSD pkgsrc, Linux (various), and haikuports (for Haiku). Tom