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1. #Seamonkey browsers upgrade#
2. #Seamonkey browsers code#
3. #Seamonkey browsers plus#
4. #Seamonkey browsers windows#

In addition to this core compatibility, a given version of SeaMonkey may also support certain features that later versions of Firefox support, though not necessarily all of them. It can generally be assumed that that version of SeaMonkey can do, at minimum, everything that that version of Firefox can do. A given version of SeaMonkey advertises compatibility with a certain version of Firefox because those two browser versions share the same core codebase. The issue here is that Seamonkey is telling sites by default that it is compatible with a much older version of Firefox rather than the version it is actually compatible with.ĭiscourse is doing the right thing in this case. If it’s for some reason undesirable or impractical to change the sniffing algorithm, then please change the behaviour upon detecting a supposedly incompatible user-agent: instead of (perhaps falsely) telling the user that their browser is “too old” and blocking further access, tell the user that their browser isn’t supported and link to the list of supported browsers, but give them an option of continuing anyway using their existing browser. (I suspect that it currently just looks for the names and versions of supported browsers, irrespective of their position within the User-Agent string.) After all, you’re not blocking browsers because they report an old version of Mozilla at the beginning of the string, so why should you block browsers because they report an old version of Firefox in the middle of the string? Please improve the User-Agent sniffing so that it checks all the way to the end of the string before deciding whether or not the user agent is “too old”. And even if these browsers are proactively blocked, it would be nice if Discourse did not report a bogus reason for doing so. I understand that Discourse may not wish to support browsers like SeaMonkey that are no longer mainstream, but it would be nice if those browers were not proactively blocked from accessing Discourse sites. If I change the User-Agent string as follows to hide Firefox compatibility (via Edit->Preferences->Advanced->HTTP Networking->User Agent String->Identify as SeaMonkey), then SeaMonkey can once again visit Discourse sites without any obvious problems: By default, SeaMonkey’s User-Agent string advertises Firefox compatibility: The problem seems to be inaccurate User-Agent sniffing on the part of Discourse. Indeed, if I override the browser’s User-Agent string, I find that everything seems to work fine. Discourse may have chosen not to support it, but it’s wrong to say that it’s “too old” to work with Discourse. However, I’m using the most recent version of my browser, SeaMonkey 2.53.13, which was released only four days ago.

#Seamonkey browsers upgrade#

Please upgrade your browser to view rich content, log in and reply. Unfortunately, your browser is too old to work on this site. Some SeaMonkey add-ons are similar to legacy Firefox add-ons and can work in K-Meleon with minor modifications.Logging in to the SDMB (and also ) today, I’m greeted with the following message: This has significantly slowed the development of SeaMonkey in part because SeaMonkey still relies on Mozilla's older XUL technology. Quantum completely rewrote huge portions of Firefox to be faster, more stable, and more secure. In 2017, Mozilla released Firefox Quantum.

#Seamonkey browsers code#

The SeaMonkey Project emerged as a community effort to maintain a complete internet suite using the same code base as Firefox. When Mozilla's standalone web browser Firefox eclipsed the more complex internet suites in market share, Mozilla shifted its focus to Firefox and stopped development of the old internet suite. Mozilla developed the new Mozilla Internet Suite from the ground up, and Netscape based the versions of their official products up to 7. To create a new internet suite Netscape spun off Mozilla.

#Seamonkey browsers windows#

Netscape's web browser lost significant market share due to Microsoft combining its Windows operating system and Internet Explorer web browser. Netscape initially released the Netscape Communicator suite in 1997 and it became the most popular way to access the internet.

#Seamonkey browsers plus#

These included browsers plus a variety of other internet applications. SeaMonkey is a continuation of the Mozilla and Netscape internet suites. It includes a browser, email/newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat, and development tools. It is maintained by the SeaMonkey Project. SeaMonkey is an open-source internet suite related to K-Meleon and Firefox.