1326310 - SeaMonkey 2.46 WXP installer error

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[pf.rhlists]

The SeaMonkey 2.46 installer said it requires
WXP SP2 or greater but I have WXP SP3 already.

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Not a valid bug report, any relevant information is missing.

Probably SSE2 problem (= too old hardware), see also:
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/49.0/system-requirements/>
<https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2016/12/23/windows-2-40-2-46-updates-and-sse/>
<http://wp.me/p7kLBG-7z>

@reporter:
Please ask for help at mozilla.support.seamonkey  or <http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=40> and feel free to reopen this bug if result of discussion is that your really have a SP3-Problem, not a SSE2 problem

Comment 2

[pf.rhlists]

Well, since I started browsing the "web" with Mosaic,
before I switched to Netscape, and now SeaMonkey, I
suppose you won't be too surprised when I tell you my
machine has a Pentium-3 CPU in it.

I suppose you have what you consider are valid reasons
for requiring at least a Pentium-4 with SSE (although
as I understand it you could set a gcc flag so that it
was not required), but at the very least I would have
guessed you could have made your CPU-test message say
something like "at least a Pentium-4 with SSE is required"
and differentiate it from your WXP SP2 message.  Oh well.

Thank you for explaining.  I guess I'll just continue
to use SeaMonkey 2.40 from now on.  If I am using WXP
which no longer gets security updates from MS I probably
won't be any worse off if I no longer update SeaMonkey.