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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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