![]() XUL, one of the key technologies of SeaMonkey, is also on the chopping block and will be discontinued in the near future. Mozilla plans to discontinue classic extensions and themes with Firefox 57 which is right around the corner. Also keeping up with Firefox is becoming difficult at best. It also means that if even one of the current key people quits, the project is in danger of becoming un-maintainable which is even worse. With an aging infrastructure becoming more and more abandoned by Mozilla, due to switching Firefox building to the cloud, releasing builds does not become easier. This means bugs do not get fixed as fast as we would like. The current members of the core team (count up to 7) are committed but, with all the changes, are getting slowly overwhelmed. The SeaMonkey project is entirely driven by volunteers working on it in their free time. Believe us, we dislike this as much as you do. Being based on Firefox 51 means that security patches are again not up to par with current Firefox. Again this is late due to infrastructure and build issues, but not so much as 2.46. ![]() We plan to release a final 2.48 based on the level of Firefox 51 soon. ![]() While still using the Mozilla infrastructure, we are mostly on our own here. ![]() SeaMonkey 2.46 was released in late December after struggling for months with infrastructure and build issues. But in continuing to deliver the best and only suite based on the Mozilla Gecko web engine, we need your help. The important part first: SeaMonkey is alive and we do not plan to discontinue it. Hello fellow users and supporters of the SeaMonkey suite! ![]()
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