In this paper we first show that for a locally compact amenable group $G$, every proper abstract Segal algebra of the Fourier algebra on $G$ is not approximately amenable; consequently, every proper Segal algebra on a locally compact abelian group is not approximately amenable. Then using the hypergroup generated by the dual of a compact group, it is shown that all proper Segal algebras of a class of compact groups including the $2\times 2$ special unitary group, $\mathrm{SU} (2)$, are not approximately amenable.

We investigate generalized amenability and biflatness properties of various (operator) Segal algebras in both the group algebra, ${{L}^{1}}\left( G \right)$, and the Fourier algebra, $A\left( G \right)$, of a locally compact group $G$.

A number of well-known results of Ghahramani and Loy on the essential amenability of Banach algebras are generalized. It is proved that a symmetric abstract Segal algebra with respect to an amenable Banach algebra is essentially amenable. Applications to locally compact groups are given.

Let G denote any locally compact abelian group with the dual group Γ. We construct a new kind of subalgebra L1(G) ⊗ΓS of L1(G) from given Banach ideal S of L1(G). We show that L1(G) ⊗гS is the larger amoung all strongly character invariant homogeneous Banach algebras in S. when S contains a strongly character invariant Segal algebra on G, it is show that L1(G) ⊗гS is also the largest among all strongly character invariant Segal algebras in S. We give applications to characterizations of two kinds of subalgebras of L1(G)-strongly character invariant Segal algebras on G and Banach ideal in L1(G) which contain a strongly character invariant Segal algebra on G.