Author Archives: Rainer Bielefeld

About Rainer Bielefeld

QA-Volunteer in the SeaMonkey Project. Hiere in the Blog you see me as Rainer Bielefeld, for technical reasons sometimes also as RrBd57 from my Twitter-account

Update for lists of supporters (wiki)

Unfortunately our supporters list in the wiki has become very outdated and useless, because most of  the listed persons no longer do support SeaMonkey. So I decided to rework that list, goal is to have a reliable overview what persons … Continue reading

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SeaMonkey 2.35 Release Notes Complements

In the following some additional release information what currently still are missing at the official SeaMonkey release notes. Here you find a Google machine translation of the official SeaMonkey Website for approximately 90 languages. The result sometimes isn’t easy to … Continue reading

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SeaMonkey 2.35 language packs

Unfortunately for the latest SeaMonkey 2.35 version with several security patches no language packs were available. Because my experience is that the 2.35 language packs Adrian Kalla contributed some weeks ago (and what are no longer available at his download … Continue reading

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New localized WIN32-Builds SeaMonkey 2.37 2015-08-13 07:11 available

  . On that page Adrian Kalla contributes localized installers.exe and languagepacks.xpi in various languages. Only for testing, you will use those builds on your own risk.

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New WIN32-Build SeaMonkey-2.35γ.en-US 2015-08-07 08:19 available

This build (by Philip Chee)  includes the latest security fixes like Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-78. SeaMonkey and Thunderbird do not ship the Firefox integrated PDF reader so we are not affected by this. However there are other security and … Continue reading

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SeaMonkey 2.35 add-on compatibility user experience

Hi all, here you can read why I started a new attempt at Newsgroup mozilla.addons.user-experience (on news server news.mozilla.org to get something like an add-on compatibility data base with the help of the SeaMonkey users community. On the same Wiki … Continue reading

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WINDOWS SeaMonkey 2.35 “Pre-RC” available

We have something very similar to a Release Candidate, “all-bugfixes included“, but not localized. That version contains a lot of bug-fixes compared to SeaMonkey 2.33 (no warranty for completeness) , intensive testing is appreciated. Be careful with Language Packs (and … Continue reading

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How dead is SeaMonkey?

On mozilla.support.seamonkey Ed Mullen asked 2015-07-07 the question from heading. I tried to ask Bugzilla for an answer by comparing some activity parameters with numbers of year before and 5 years ago (2010). All values for first half-year. Found numbers … Continue reading

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New seamonkey-2.35.en-US.win32-20150626.zip available

Build details: Built of mozilla-esr38 + THUNDERBIRD_38_VERBRANCH. Note Official 2.35 release will be built off mozilla-release 38 (Probably 38.0.6) DOM Inspector built off changeset 80c195824f1e. Version shows as 2.0.16pre. I have uploaded 2.0.16 to AMO so SeaMonkey should update to … Continue reading

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Improvements for the Blog

News from the machinery compartment I am happy that we now have the blog. After some weeks experience with it, we should think about some improvements. Most of the following suggestions are also discussed in Bug 1147825 – (meta) Revive SeaMonkey … Continue reading

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