My use of SeaMonkey dates from preferences evolved in Netscape days.
My brother (using Firefox on Windows 10) for browsing and gmail has
noticed recent problems. His problem description is anonymously viewing
youtube videos triggers a burst of unsolicited emails.
I'm a Linux user with no interest in videos and who avoids social media
like the plague since contact with Facebook years ago. Thus I've no
personal experience to help interpret his descriptions. I can not
personally observe the problem as he lives 1000 miles away.
A discussion on a user group with a Linux focus causes me to suspect a
cookie problem. However I've just read an unrelated thread that briefly
discussed OAuth 2.0 issues. I've just done a preliminary web search. A
Wikipedia article causes suspicion that it may be part of the problem as
some of its description jibes with some of the user group thread.
I'm considering suggesting he replace Firefox with SeaMonkey because:
1. I'm familiar with it.
2. I suspect using SM's POP email client will give him a more
comfortable experience. POP has the advantage over IMAP as it has
option to delete emails from server as they are downloaded. The
sync capability of IMAP is unnecessary as he has only one computer.
3. A simple cookie policy should remedy or prevent problems.
Some questions:
1. Does SeaMonkey's OAuth 2.0 implementation make it simple to set
allow/disallow connections easily?
2. Would a cookie policy session cookies only and no third party
cookies be as useful for him as it has for me?
3. Have I missed anything?
TIA
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