He was a keen white supremacist and was looking to add distance from his Jewish roots - the Washington Post reported that he bought arms for a Ku Klux Klan faction and regularly attended the annual conference of the Aryan Nations. You’d think that a Jewish American who had lived through the Second World War wouldn’t be so keen to play on his Germanic side, but von Braunhut wasn’t an ordinary Jewish American. Von Braunhut was born just plain Harold Braunhut but added the preposition to make him sound more German. The Sea-Monkeys story began in 1957 when, eager to cash in on the craze for ant farms that had exploded the year before, an intrepid inventor named Harold von Braunhut came up with the idea for ‘Instant Life’, an aquatic pet colony formed of brine shrimp. What kid could resist that? What kid wouldn’t want tiny humanoids, albeit with weird tails and antennae, living in the corner of their bedroom? What kid wasn’t disappointed when what they actually received was tiny, tiny shrimps that really didn’t do anything? These delightful creatures, called Sea-Monkeys (obviously because they resembled the ape-like beings in the ad art, right?), would be dispatched to your door, along with everything you needed to help them thrive and survive. Alongside offers to sell Grit magazine (what even was that?) door-to-door, trunks full of plastic army men, and X-ray glasses that would definitely allow you to see the girl-next-door’s private parts, was an invitation to grow your own friends. Myrddin R Emrys on SeaMonkey 2.53.Whatever American comic books you read in the seventies and eighties, you couldn’t help but come across adverts for all kinds of wacky stuff.Myrddin R Emrys on SeaMonkey 2.53.13 is out!.ewong on SeaMonkey 2.53.14 Beta 1 is out!.Myrddin R Emrys on SeaMonkey 2.53.14 Beta 1 is out!.It doesn’t give me pleasure to state it outright but it’s always the resources issue. I do apologize for the long windedness and the decision to only update 2.53.x. So the final conclusion, as mentioned above, is that only 2.53.x + will get updates. As mentioned earlier in a post on the support mailing list, only versions > 2.33 (iirc) can be updated due to certificates not being recognized and that can’t be helped.)) (Still, a part of me is reserving the right to modify the system to allow updates from 2.49.x to 2.49.5 at least. All other versions polling for updates will not get any. The benefit of the SeaMonkey project sticking with only 2.53.x + updates is that these updates will work on systems being updated. I realize this may sound like an excuse for ignoring old software but there really only so much we can do particularly when the engine is changing so rapidly that we’re trying to keep track of the *latest* stuff coming out from Mozilla. It’s just that using it on an actual system could potentially harm the system. Does this mean the old versions can’t be used? No. This is the unfortunate by-product of technological progression. Is it possible to set up a VM to build old software? Possibly but is it worth the time and resources? Unfortunately, the answer here is no. Furthermore, even websites are now finicky as to which browser can view them, which further adds to the frustrations of using old SeaMonkey versions. If big corporations can’t/won’t support old operating systems what hope do we (as a small group of volunteers) have? Is this a justification to leave old software high and dry? No but it is not realistic to expect a small group of volunteers to support software that no longer build on any system. Ditto with the Windows Servers (NT, to 2008). ![]() Win 1 to (recently) Win7 are no longer supported. The 2.49.1 – 2.49.4 to 2.49.5 update is a special case as the 2.49.5 update files had changed and we missed the opportunity to create a set of transitional update files for that.īig corporations, like Microsoft, no longer support old operating systems. As of this writing, I’m not entirely sure the 2.49.* family will ever be updated (but you’ll never know). Any other previous versions are no longer supported in terms of updates. ![]() The SeaMonkey Project will only be supporting the 2.53.* (Gecko 56) family. I had posted this concern on the lists and probably here as well but I’m just going to repeat myself. *That* was my intention.Īs in with intentions mixed in with life, things aren’t that simple. Like, if you had installed 1.x, you’d be able to upgrade to 2.53.7.1. My original intention was to allow any version upgrade to any other greater version (barring operating system restrictions etc.). Tl dr: SeaMonkey 2.53.* (and newer) are the only versions that will have updates. will be left as is (mainly because one of these days, that domain will be decomissioned (since it is Mozilla’s)) I’m hoping to switch the to using the new update system. I’m putting this post up to better clarify the situation with the updates.
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