RFC: Dropping Seamonkey

Good afternoon folks,

I wanted to propose dropping Seamonkey. Are there any users here who 
currently use it?

Dropping Seamonkey gives us the added benefit of having one less 
rust-based package to test when we update rust, but also one less 
package that can break with newer versions of dependencies like ICU. In 
addition, it would give us the added benefit of dropping Python 3.11 
from the book.

Seamonkey also isn't maintained very well regarding security 
vulnerabilities. It has not been updated for the past few Firefox 
releases which had security issues fixed.

Seamonkey also cannot render Github or Gitlab and sometimes struggles 
with multimedia playback.

In the past we've talked about keeping it because of how light it is to 
build in comparison to other web browsers and mail clients, as well as 
how well it runs on low end hardware. However, with the lack of feature 
parity with Firefox and not supporting several web standards which have 
become common over the past couple of years, I think it might be time 
for it to go.

As an alternative to Seamonkey, I'd like to suggest the following packages:

- Lightweight Web Browser: Epiphany

- Lightweight Mail Client: Balsa

- If you need a news reader, use Thunderbird

- IRC Client: Konversation

- We do not currently have another WSYWIG HTML Editor (which is what I 
use Seamonkey for from time to time).

That being said, are there any users currently using Seamonkey? If 
nobody speaks up, I will plan on archiving it on Friday.

Thank you!

- Doug

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