[email protected] wrote on 25/07/2019 6:49 AM:
Mark B wrote:
Win 10 Ver. 1903 Build 18362.10005
SM 2.53
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0)Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53
Build identifier: 20190425130005

Today (7/24/19) I started seeing a red banner below the tab bar that said "Your copy of SeaMonkey is old and probably has known security flaws, but you have disabled automated update checks.  Please update to a newer version." [Check for update button]

I'm using SM 2.53.  Is this notice for real? I don't want to click on the button since I don't know what it's going to do.

See the thread titled 'Strange "SeaMonkey outdated" message' from 13th July in the archives: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.support.seamonkey/tfn0056ZpCc>

Basically, with automatic updates disabled this message is displayed when the version you're running is over a certain age. Without checking for updates (which you've disabled) it can't tell whether there actually is a newer version, so warns based on the age of your current version (I think aimed at people who disable updates and then forget to occasionally check manually). The assumption is that a newer version would have been released by the time the message is triggered, but with all the changes to Mozilla code and build issues holding up releases that assumption doesn't necessarily hold.

I can see the logic of your reply, mbourne, but, as SM 2.53 is not yet official, it sort of seems strange that it's claiming, itself, that it's old!!

Does this seem strange to others, as well??

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Daniel

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171016030418
or
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.5 Build identifier: 20190609032134

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build identifier: 20171015235623
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