my independant mac browser called seamonkey is nearing its end .

[AllaN01Bear]

been getting little updates and still getting browser not supported .(whatever happened to the all browser intiative ?) ive tried others like flock , etc and they have gone by the wayside. do use firefox now and then but ff and google wont show du at all. wont do chrome as chrome is a memory hog and stomps on the os and other apps . steals memory. did try opera , but another m$ hack. any idears appriceated . thanks .

[LuvLoogie]

1. What device and OS version are you running?

Buy more RAM, and run Chrome.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. laptop. macbook pro 13 inch early 2014. sorry , dont do crhrome

[CloudWatcher]

3. just curious ...

Just curious, what's your objection to Safari? I've got Chrome and Firefox
installed for testing, but just wind up using Safari 99% of the time.

Hmm, I also happen to have Pi-Hole running, so most of the sites load
a lot faster without ads. Maybe Safari sucks at ads, idk

[Tetrachloride]

4. Omniweb can do a lot

Officially unsupported, but i used it for years.

a browser ahead of its time < - - -

has site by site preferences < - - -

[usonian]

5. SeaMonkey was my "go-to" browser, because it lets you edit web pages. Woo Hoo!

But I have been using safari (on mobile devices by default ... all other browsers are really safari inside (webkit).

On the desktops, I have used Firefox a whole lot, mainly for the ad-blocking and paywall-bypass extensions (and lots more), but in my experience, when I go to print a page to PDF, way too many times, Firefox just locks up and I have to kill it.

So I have been using Opera a lot. Has built-in VPN of sorts, ad-blocking (I add others for fun) and seems to preview and save pdf from pages faster. And I don't miss the constant Firefox nags to update it. (I really fear that it will add obnoxious things I have to undo. though I suspect that Opera snuk some promoted sites into my start page. Opera is built on the crome engine, so chrome add-ins work.

One thing that really amazes me is that Opera has no built-in means to email a link. I have to use an extension to do so. Go figure.

When it really matters, tor browser, though that has Firefox inside, hence the nags.

ALL of these work with DU. In my experience with really old apps and browsers (like on old ipods I use only to stream music from the hotspot into the audio system or bluetooth ) many fail after a while and can't be updated. Something about expired certificates in browsing some websites. Dunno about the apps.

I got briefly banned from imgbb until I realized that I was probably routing through some East European node. Got to check everything! (like who has the time?)

[Ahna KneeMoose]

6. A Few Possible MacThoughts

The Sea Monkey application is out-of-date and will most likely never be updated to function with your 2014 Mac laptop. Also, your Mac laptop will likely face extinction from Apple in the very near future.

Backup all of your personal files to an external hard drive. Then activate a few of those files to be sure your backup is operational

(1) Consider replacing your existing battery with a new battery

(2) Consider upgrading your RAM (if possible) (from Crucial)

(3) Consider upgrading your HDD to a new 256GB SSD (from Crucial)

(4) Consider upgrading your OS to a newer OS (from Apple)

The following links (A here) (B here) (C here) and (D here) may help you along your journey...

[AllaN01Bear]

7. currently running big sur no issues now . was in beginning. drive is ssd.

[Ahna KneeMoose]

8. That's Great (!)

I am glad you are (back) up and running properly.