Bug#705889: iceape: 90 day banner "Your copy of Iceape is old and probably has known security flaws"

[Andrey Mitrofanov]

On Tue May 14 21:11:54 UTC 2013, nabster (at supanet) wrote:
> I receive the same red warning banner.

I too. Had to click it away every time.

> The current version of seamonkey is 2.17.1 and the version in Debian is
> 2.7.12.        Is it time to update iceape in Debian?

http://glandium.org/blog/?p=2978

Will we see new builds when the beefy build machine get landed
and unpacked from :) some container on a boat?

Considering the last manually-made upstream release is 4+ months,
even release is happend (yeay!), it seems to me this not gonna change.

...Mike?

Or is it "Send more mainteiners", sadly?

On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:38:58 +0100, Steve Cotton wrote:
> Workaround to stop it appearing without deleting your profile: edit
> .mozilla/seamonkey/.../prefs.js and delete
> "app.update.lastUpdateTime.background-update-timer"

I've just set this value in about:config iceape screen to 1678902345, restarted
the browser and the warning is gone. So much :) for security awareness.

Can't be simply deleted from inside the browser it seems.

> This is an upstream feature which seems inappropriate for Debian.        The

Those trademarked corporate technologies leaked in? No! :-J

---
...Be happy, take it easy, sayonara.