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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 2019 22:51:37 -0700
From:      "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        bruce <bruce@hawaii-pacific.com>,  FBSD Ports Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: firefox
Message-ID:  <CALeGphxuHgFidiVE%2BeVMgdxzONVhwjBas4_2TP1j3HMruT0O4Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <23888.59649.122277.267681@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <0eeb4921-b8a5-f0f8-f568-80b240a73aec@hawaii-pacific.com> <23888.59649.122277.267681@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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I have the same experience with firefox and I too have used seamonkey
for years and have never found a suitable replacement. Right now, I'm
using Falkon which seems to be ok minus a few quirks here and there
but still more tolerable than firefox.

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 9:20 PM Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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?
>
>         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!!!!)
>
>
>                         Respectfully,
>
>
>                                 Robert Huff
>
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