On 12/18/2018 8:13 PM, Ant wrote:
https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2018/12/19/updating-everyone/
Sigh. Handwriting on the wall. Like many SM users I go back to Netscape 2.x. SM feels like home. It is comfortable, works for me and has most of the features I want. FF has become a frustrating mess lacking many features I use in SM.
Alas it seems obvious the end is near. SM is already having lots of compatibility issues and renders way slow compared to other browsers. Time for me to find the transition browser. After 23 years here that isn't emotionally or physically easy. No idea where to go. FF doesn't feel right and also seems slow, Chrome - I don't trust it. What branches, if any can I trust with my privacy? Opera? Is it a similar dying anomaly or even any good? There really isn't anything else stable, private (and no cloud), feature rich and fast is there? It is sad that so many people are willing to give up privacy for Google Chrome. I feel old and outdated. Get off my lawn.
We can talk about all the theoretical ways to revive SM but the reality is it has a very small and shrinking user base, is mostly unknown, and does not have an adequate support staff to carry it forward. Without a better user base it will be hard to carry forward, and without an adequate engineering team it will be hard to improve the user base. Chicken and Egg and neither wins.
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