SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha released

An anonymous reader writes "SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha was released last week. Users of the Mozilla Suite or Netscape should check it out - it contains numerous new features and bugfixes when compared to Mozilla 1.7, but offers the same basic look and feel. There are a few screenshots on the SeaMonkey blog showing off some of the features. For those who don't know, SeaMonkey is the continuation of the Mozilla Suite after the Mozilla Foundation ceased shipping new releases."

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You know what day it is!

[Anonymous Coward]

Avast me mateys! Aargh! It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Aargh! Me SeaMonkeys! Aye, they waited for the right date to announce it.

Bljarne!

Re:Using Mozilla, not going to use Firefox?

[FoboldFKY]

And here I thought Firefox was just the browser component of Mozilla without all the other useful components. Why would you insist on using a less-functional, cutesy program (whether it is called Pheonix, Firebird or Firefox) when Mozilla can do everything it can and a hell of a lot more?

If there is one upside to open source software is that legacy software will never die so long as some people actually want to use it and find it useful. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, they can go on improving existing, proven programs. Even then, features can be ported to those newer apps (say, oh I don't know, via Gecko).

(See, kids: there's more than one way to spin a discussion! Disclaimer: I use Firefox, but I still respect the SeaMonkey users' decision to keep using it.)