I guess someone hit the snooze button and sent it out three months late? It turned out to be a message that “Internet Exploder” would be unsupported by their site, beginning in June. I opened my email this morning and Discover sent me an email titled “Important updated browser information”. If you don’t generally want to run JavaScript and “handle it” with NoScript instead, many of the performance issues it causes are not an issue to begin with, and thus don’t require “multi-vector assault mode” processes to handle the garbage and nonsense. ![]() It wastes gobs of memory and CPU time managing them all, and has them using basically your whole computer to run some stupid JavaScript, which is probably up to no good anyway. One of the things that “modern” Web browsers are doing is splitting themselves up into dozens of processes. I’ll just wait to update until Fedora brings in the final release and then I’ll go over it and see if it fixes anything that matters to me. In some cases, this was getting embarrassing, like the button to launch AOL Instant Messenger from the Address Book or the About Plugins feature which makes no sense now that no NPAPI plugins work in any current Web browser anyway. It somewhat improves Web compatibility with more select backports from later versions of Gecko, but also drops some dead code. SeaMonkey 2.53.14 beta 1 was recently released. I’m getting sick of the Web anyway but as long as I have to use it, I think SeaMonkey makes the most sense for me. It’s text entry boxes that don’t work and you can use a UA hack to say you use Opera 12.16 or something just for that site and use the Legacy Mobile version. So far the only site where the Bloated version doesn’t seem to work in SeaMonkey appears to be Facebook, which is very unimportant anyway. But it has made it this far and it will probably go on for the foreseeable future. ![]() Mozilla has more or less cut SeaMonkey loose and won’t even allow them to use their crash reporting infrastructure anymore, and they lose maintainers faster than people become interested in it. I got NoScript working in SeaMonkey, but you have to use an unsupported version (5.1.9) off of the NoScript Web site that still has the XUL user interface.įrom what I can tell, this version seems to work okay.
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