On 2020-08-02, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> When Firefox switched to the hamburger menu in release 29,
> I switched to Seamonkey (https://www.seamonkey-project.org).
> Seamonkey is based on the Mozilla code base, but stubbornly
> holds on to the classic user interface.  I find FF's hamburger
> menu to be totally incomprehensible - try to find Preferences,
> for example.

By the same token, I've been telling everyone who will listen that, for
my money, SeaMonkey Mail is a much better MUA than Thunderbird.

I guess what I really want in a GUI MUA is for it to work well with
IMAP, stay out of my way, and display HTML mail well.

That last one can be a doozy for MUAs that don't have the codebase of a
heavy hitting HTML renderer at their core, like Gecko or WebKit.

Everything *just works* with SeaMonkey Mail, and I like that the UI
remains consistent.  I don't *want* my MUA's UI to change over time.
I've been reading and writing mail pretty much the same way for the past
20+ years, so there is no reason for there to be constant UI changes.

> On Seamonkey I'm running Adblock Plus and NoScript.  They work
> well enough that a lot of web sites get quite upset with me.

Unfortunately for me, the gContactSync extension which I use to be
synchronise my Google Contacts with my SeaMonkey Mail address book is no
longer supported.

I've told the developer that the version he claims works with SeaMonkey
no longer does, but that an older version that he had since removed
worked perfectly. He gave me a direct link to the older version which
has been working ever since, and I just keep my fingers crossed that it
won't stop working one of these days, with no upgrade path.

The dev told me I'm pretty much the only person who has ever written to
him about it, so I guess in fairness he knows his audience.

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