SeaMonkey 1.0 Goes Beta

CTho9305 writes "SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta is out! Since the alpha release in September, it has picked up numerous bugfixes, a new logo, and a few cool features (also discussed on the SeaMonkey blog). For those who don't know, SeaMonkey is the continuation of the Mozilla Suite after the Mozilla Foundation ceased shipping new releases, so if you liked Mozilla or Netscape be sure to try it."

Comments

Re:Extensions/Plugins?

[savala]

Virtually all extensions which worked with Mozilla will work with SeaMonkey. It's always possible for an extension to use unfrozen interfaces or rely on bugs and for things to just stop working due to changes - there's been near enough a year and a half of development time since the 1.7 branch was created after all - but the expectation is that extension authors for who this is the case will update their extensions to work with SeaMonkey again, just like they would've done for Mozilla.

Of course there's also a large group of extensions which are Firefox only; the extension installation mechanism is different, and extensions for SeaMonkey/Mozilla have the responsibility to provide their own uninstaller (not that many do), but that's really a choice that extension authors make - who they want to support - and the only thing you could do about that is ask them directly if they will provide a version for SeaMonkey, or to take their code and do it yourself.

Ditch flashblock.

[Inoshiro]

/* Prevent flash animations from playing until you click on them. */
object[classid$=":D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354 0000"],
object[codebase*="swflash.cab"],
object[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"],
embed[type="application/x-shockwave-flash"],
embed[src$=".swf"]
{ -moz-binding: url("http://www.floppymoose.com/clickToView.xml#ct v"); }

Works in userContent.css. No more flash unless you click it to play with no extra code.

You're welcome :D