Bob wrote:
I've used Seamonkey in the past, and really liked the way I could work on my 'personal'
website with the software. I stopped using it when it was declared "obsolete"
a few years ago.
I am being forced to abandon Firefox, which I've been using for around 15 years
now (and really liked, until the later iterations). I work from home, and
absolutely CANNOT have software automatically install updates and force me to
shut down (without being able to access another website to alert people). I've
tried all of the tricks I could find to prevent automatic installation of
updates, but nothing has worked, and I do NOT want to loose my job because of
the programmers refusing to listen to reason.
(1): Can I LOCK OUT automatic installation of updates? I MUST be able to
choose when updating happens.
(2): How up-to-date is Seamonkey kept? I already have strong security on my
system, but need to avoid security holes.
(3) How easy is it now to migrate Bookmarks, passwords, and so on?
(4): "Bonus" question - is the composer still part of Seamonkey?
I use Ubuntu 18:04 LTS - switched to it around the time I abandoned Office and
IE (for security and other valid reasons).
Thanks!
Bob
I like SeaMonkey, and I also like Pale Moon. You might want to try that
one as well.
You can block automatic updates of the application and of the add-ons as
well. For the add-ons, you can allow updates (by clicking something)
but block automatic updates. I found the easiest way to do that was to
go into about:config and look up "update".
It seems to me that Pale Moon is a bit more up-to-date as far as
security is concerned, but i like both.
It is very easy to export bookmarks from one browser and import them
into any other browser. For passwords, you need the encryption key
(key4.db) as well as the logins.json file.
The composer is still part of SeaMOnkey but it is not up-to=date.
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