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CentOS 6 - Seamonkey - Your copy is old and probably has known security flaws

I'm using Seamonkey from EPEL as my primary browser and every time it starts, it shows red warning (see picture)

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Your copy of seamonkey is old and probably has known security flaws

The thing is, I'm using latest version 2.40 - checked both by seamonkey website, yum and Seamonkey itself.

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# yum info seamonkey

Available Packages

Name        : seamonkey

Arch        : x86_64

Version    : 2.40

Release    : 2.el6

Size        : 55 M

Repo        : epel

Summary    : Web browser, e-mail, news, IRC client, HTML editor

URL        : http://www.seamonkey-project.org

License    : MPLv2.0

Description : SeaMonkey is an all-in-one Internet application suite. It includes

            : a browser, mail/news client, IRC client, JavaScript debugger, and

            : a tool to inspect the DOM for web pages. It is derived from the

            : application formerly known as Mozilla Application Suite.

Even if I click on 'Check for updates' button to get rid of this warning, nothing happens.

Is there a newer version of seamonkey or is there some problem with my profile? I also use the same version of Seamonkey on Slackware and don't see this warning.

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Is there a newer version of seamonkey

So far 2.4 is the latest. Try download and run a seamonkey GTK binary of same version, find out if same warning appears. In my case it does not appear.

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or is there some problem with my profile?

If you suspect your profile has issue try run it as new-profile. It is easily done Tools-->Switch profile... >> Create new, quit seamonkey and launching again will offer you to choose among profiles.

Hope that helps. Good luck and enjoy!

m.m.

Maybe a RHEL based distros bug.
Have a look at this post for a workaround

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Originally Posted by bathory (Post 5611970)

Maybe a RHEL based distros bug.
Have a look at this post for a workaround

Definitely bug in RHEL based distro binaries.

I tried binaries from mozilla and haven't encounter this bug with clean profile. Nevertheless, linked workaround helped, thanks!

By the way, it's nice to see that among all distros here at LQ, Slackers came to rescue :-)