package updates

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:41:09AM +0000, James Freer wrote:
> I for one have been unsure of Mozilla updates [currently using xubuntu
> 10.04]. I started using Seamonkey 6 months ago and there haven't been
> any updates... and i think only one for Firefox.

I'll grant you that Seamonkey isn't well updated (it's in universe, so
the security team doesn't promise anything), but there've been eight
updates to Firefox in 10.04 in the last six months, taking it from
3.6.16 to 3.6.24.  (Data source:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+publishinghistory)

> As for email i've found Thunderbird almost unusable for imap as it's
> so slow - now switched to Alpine [speed is amazing and i now prefer
> the text client].

I prefer mutt myself, but horses for courses.  offlineimap is worth
considering as well (so I don't actually use mutt's IMAP support
directly), especially if you ever need to get at your e-mail while on
the road.  It does require some work on its configuration file, but I
assume that's not so much of a problem if you're already using a text
client.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]