Resolved Upgrade SeaMonkey browser only?

Hi all,

Is there a way to upgrade SeaMonkey's browser only and not the Mail part?

 

No, because in order to view any such programs, you need a profile, and mail and profile info are combined in a profile.
I suppose that it may be possible to build such hybrid, but I am not aware of its existence.

 

And this, jpChris, is one of the Achilles heels of the Seamonkey suite. It's a suite... with the various programs fully integrated. It definitely has its advantages but your request to upgrade one of those programs is not one of them.

 

I should have added that Seamonkey is based on, both Firefox and Thunderbird, and, I have yet to see Firefox being updated, without something being done to Thunderbird.
Consequently, the browser (based on Firefox) and mail (based on Thunderbird) arec updated at the same time in Seamonkey. It is, hardly, an Achilles heel, but I am sure that many do not care to update the entire thing. But, does it matter?

 

Well, Westside, evidently it does matter to the OP. Why it matters is the question of the day. Regardless of that answer, the fact is... in a suite you cannot update one portion of the suite and that it a drawback for folks who for whatever reason they have, want to simply update one portion without doing the same to the others. The fact that FF and TB are updated closely has nothing to do with this. TB can be updated separately from FF and the same thing holds for FF so if someone insists upon updating one program and not the other, SM has an Achilles heel in that regard. Does it make sense? To us... no... but for some reason it appears to make sense to the OP.

 

Hi guys,

I had such brain damage trying to get the Mail portion over to the D:\ partition that I don't want to repeat it. If I upgrade, it's going to upgrade everything, which, the mail portion is absolute fine the way it is, and I don't want to fool with it for my limited needs.

So, I can't upgrade the browser only, right?

 

To my understanding, no... because of its integration, each part of the suite will be updated simultaneously.

 

Firstly, I'm curious to know which version of SM you are running. The present current release is #2.7.2

The 2.8 beta 4 is very stable & I reckon that the 2.8 RC is not too far away.

Secondly, The SeaMonkey Council tends to pride itself on the notion that SeaMonkey doesn't drastically change with upgrades. The mail client upgrade may be for security holes & not a drastic UI change or anything else. I'm pretty sure that at one time, & I've been running SM since 1.1.12, that you didn't have to install the entire suite & could select which portions of it you wanted during installation. This policy was apparently changed some time ago. I don't know why. It may be more pertinent to ask this updating/upgrading question here at SeaMonkey's forum at mozillaZine.

 

I did a Search, and found out that with SM 1.1.1 one could update only the browser.
I went further back to the Netscape days, and the confusion with Netscape Navigator and, later called Communicator. I could not get straight answer in my searches, but it seems that Mail was part of Netscape, with v.2.0. Is this integration necessary? I don't care, and see no advantage in upgrading only part of a Suite. But, others do disagree. And, probably that's why Suites, on general, have fallen into disfavor.
I am using Seamonkey, precisely, because it is a Suite. If one can't accept the fact that a Suite is integrated, why not use the browser-only programs?

 

Yes, I agree, if you use a suite you can just use what suits you. You may as well update/grade everything at the same time. It's the same with other suites, like Opera. I'm still pretty sure you could just download the browser with SeaMonkey versions up to at least 2.0. SeaMonkey also has a HTML composer/editor, I wonder how many people still use that?

 

Hi guys,

Thanks for the input. After reading the Mozilla Forum, I think I'll just stick with 2.5 until it's no longer relevant (like SM 1.x versions).

[This is weird! I got an e-mail from "Customer Support" <dishtvforpc@mymusicmail.com> with Subject being: "Save Up To $200 Per Month" and it was from WBBS. What's this all about???]

 

Hi Davezilla,

My main hesitation is that with an upgrade, SeaMonkey will create a new user account, etc., on my C:\ drive and I'll have to try to figure out how to get it off my C:\ drive over to my D:\ drive — which is where it is now and where I want it.

Know how I can contact the SeaMonkey Council?

 

This seems to be an issue peculiar to your computer & set-up. Have SM upgrades changed drives before? If you upgrade & it does what you fear, can't you just do a system restore? It can undo a lot of problems.

System Restore

Not really. Maybe you could try & contact Robert Kaiser (Kairo) here?