package updates

[James Freer]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Colin Watson wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]

Colin

Many thanks. I don't know how the updating works so appreciated your reply. I've 
settled with Chrome as a browser for now. I did try Mutt and got it working but 
it was hard work for me - so i'm staying with Alpine.

james