Re: SeaMonkey 2.42.9

On Sunday, 4 June 2017 02:34:40 UTC-5, Dave Yeo  wrote:
> Dave Yeo wrote:
> > I've rebuilt SeaMonkey, now 2.42.9. Frank-Rainer Grahl supplied a bunch
> > of backported patches from upstream to bring 2.42 up to release
> > standards. Some icons fixed thanks to Andreas Kohl. I fixed the merge, a
> > couple of files didn't originally merge correctly. The Mozilla tree is
> > now slightly ahead of Firefox 45.5, now at the 45.9 level with H264, AAC
> > and now MP3 playback working (volume still broken). Seamonky.exe is also
> > patched to not need LIBPATHSTRICT or RUN! anymore.
> > https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/seamonkey-2.42.9esr.en-US.os2.zip.
> >
> > Same requirements as previously, the latest FFmpeg 3.3.1 (Hobbes
> > incoming currently) should also work for H264, AAC and MP3.
> > Dave
> 
> Seems I got ahead of myself. This is the correct libcx, 
> https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/libcx0.dll
> Can backup and replace the one in @UNIXROOT\usr\lib or where ever you 
> have it. The Yum/RPM repository will catch up.
> Dave

Hi Dave:

Thanks for all your efforts!

I have been running 2.14 for awhile, but it is starting to have more issues with the constant stream of useless new WWW features.  I recently did find one beautiful new fix, and that was to change the "useragent" to a Windows 10 Mozilla.  Previously unacceptable or unusable pages magically functioned, and even a new Fireshot for Firefox Windows would install (but not work on 2.14, just 2.42)

After many unsuccessful attempts at installing previous SeaMonkey versions, I gave a good go at 2.42.9.  I found the fonts were the initial crash error, so I spent a considerable amount of time researching and experimenting before I found the crux was the path is hard coded to be \\unixroot\* (etc/usr/var) in the SeaMonkey drive.  This is not well documented, and the fora have much confusion regarding this.  I also installed the other new requisite libraries from Steve in the same path, or in the SeaMonkey root.

I finally got SeaMonkey up and running, and functional for many pages much better than 2.14.  However there were still some serious issues:

A) There was a insta-crash accessing the "Download" menu.

B) There was a insta-crash on the OpenSteetMap edit page the instant the mouse was moved.

C) There was a insta-crash accessing video.

D) The stability is still not prime time.

I also would like to change the default browser and display fonts to bigger sans-serif, but was unsuccessful.

FYI, I have a franken system (ECS 2.1) with Panorama.  I hope to soon install AN 5.0 to seek improvements.

thanks,
Baden