Re: SeaMokey 2-42b8 and Thunderbird 45esr

Steve Wendt wrote:
> On 05/20/17 04:23 pm, Dave Yeo wrote:
>
>> Hi I've uploaded builds of SeaMonkey. They also only have the extra
>> requirement of libvpx
>
> With SeaMonkey 2.35, html5test.com shows H.264 and AAC support if you
> have the (optional) libvpx and ffmpeg DLLs.  With this build, it appears
> that libvpx4 is now required, but html5test.com says there is no H.264
> or AAC support.

Hmm, you're right, plus the Bitwise release of Firefox is the same. I'll 
open an issue shortly.

>
> I am using nspr-4_12_0-4_oc00 and nss-3_23_0-4_oc00, as packaged here:
> http://os2news.warpstock.org/mozsupport-2017-05-27.zip
>
> And of course ffmpeg, as packaged here:
> http://os2news.warpstock.org/mozmedia-2017-04-02.zip

I have all the latest installed so it's not that.

>
> With the addition of libvxp4.  I haven't added in hunspell and
> libjpeg-turbo since your current build of SeaMonkey doesn't need it, and
> the general consensus seems to be that the 45esr builds are generally
> not worth using at this point; hopefully bitwise updates to 45.9 (why
> would they not have pulled in the security updates yet?), and tracks
> down the cause of the poor performance.
>

I don't see any point in installing hunspell and currently the included 
libjpeg-turbo works fine so why have extra requirements.
Why they're so slow to upgrade, I don't know, unless it is to avoid 
trademark issues by only releasing unsupported versions of Firefox. I 
tried to talk them into rebranding but they don't pay attention to me.
BTW, finally got around to applying Frank-Rainer Grahl's patches, after 
reviewing and fixing my merge and hope to upload a new SM soon. I've 
been using SM for quite a while, it's slow but usable, especially now 
with the cursor issue fixed, thanks to Frank-Rainer. Hopefully it'll be 
release quality once Bitwise fixes Firefox.
Dave