MX 17 Repository: The Seamonkey Thread

[Stevo]

We now have Seamonkey 2.49.3 in the main repository.

SeaMonkey is a free and open-source Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code, which itself grew out of Netscape Communicator and formed the base of Netscape 6 and Netscape 7.

Compared to Firefox, the SeaMonkey web browser keeps the far more traditional-looking interface of Netscape and the Mozilla Suite. Many Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons can be modified for compatibility with SeaMonkey, although add-ons built with the WebExtensions architecture used by newer Firefox versions are not yet compatible. It is also more suitable for older hardware than Firefox

[Artim]

Thank you so much for keeping Seamonkey up to date! Seamonkey has thousands fewer lines of code than Firefox, yet it does everything Firefox and Thunderbird can do. Superb on older hardware.

[mikhail21393]

Seamonkey 2.49.4 Release is out!! I hope someone will be aware and release it soon, also if some maintainer can add it in as an metapackage in the MX Package Installer will be greatly appreciated and since I am not the only user who use Seamonkey in MX Linux and the most legacy browser up to date, it will greatly appreciated if it's added in the repository as a metapackage it's such a wonderful browser.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

seamonkey-2.49.4 is now available to upgrade to from the main repository.
Check the release notes page for more info.

- mike

[Artim]

Thank you!

[mmikeinsantarosa]

seamonkey-2.53.1 is in main. If you are upgrading from a previous version, take note of this:

Automatic upgrades from previous versions are disabled for this release. Please download the full installer from the downloads section and install SeaMonkey 2.53.1 manually over the previous version.

This version makes changes to your profile that can't be reverted in case you want to go back to a previous version of SeaMonkey. You MUST absolutely do a full backup of your profile before trying SeaMonkey 2.53.1.

your profile is located in

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/home/<user>/.mozilla/seamonkey/

The Seamonkey Internet Suite is a set of Internet oriented applications.
It is the continuation of the Mozilla Suite after it had been abandoned
in favor of Firefox and Thunderbird.

~mike

[mmikeinsantarosa]

seamonkey-2.53.2 is now in main.

Check the release notes page for more info

- mike

[pcalvert]

Hi,

How is this package created? What sort of manipulations are required to take the files from the Mozilla tarball and put them into a DEB package?

Phil

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Hi,

How is this package created? What sort of manipulations are required to take the files from the Mozilla tarball and put them into a DEB package?

Phil

we just repackage the prebuilt binaries from mozilla for firefox & seamonkey. they aren't true builds. the process is the same but tricks in the rules file provide the method.

[dreamer]

Hi,

How is this package created? What sort of manipulations are required to take the files from the Mozilla tarball and put them into a DEB package?

Phil

we just repackage the prebuilt binaries from mozilla for firefox & seamonkey. they aren't true builds. the process is the same but tricks in the rules file provide the method.

I see several benefits to this method:

1. Every Linux user is using the same official build (easier for trouble shooting).
2. The application dev does the build the way application dev sees fit - can even include specific libs that work better with the application than generic distro libs - in short; a standalone application without potential for dependency hell. Still smaller and less hassle than Flatpak and Snaps.
3. Redundant work on the distro level is minimized.
4. Easy for the user. Go to /opt, there is the whole executable with assets (just like Windows).
5. If it isn't possible to build a generic tar.gz package (or even a generic deb and rpm if the application dev wants to go the extra mile) then Linux is too fragmented to become successful on the desktop if success is measured as number of users.