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

Good.

[truefluke]

It's good to see this version of the Mozilla codebase continuing. I dunno. I really don't have THAT much to say against FireFox; I use it every single day, every time, all the time. I just wasn't happy with 1.5.

Point 1: There's this weird bug where my flash blocker plugin is now doing JUST THAT. Nothing in flash works. It is just a blank screen. A community website that I browsed frequently in the past, and is ONLY accesible thru their Flash client, is now non-accesible. Since the blocker just presents a blank page, regardless of how much re-loading or clicking I do on the > arrow.

Point 2: My Bookmarks Menu. Yes I still use this. I do not use 'declicious' or any other community/social bookmark wiki system. My bookmarks are none of anyone's business, IMHO. After leaving FF up for a couple of hours, the highlighting feature when I scroll through the deep levels of my bookmarks just stops working and 'flickers'; I can't SEE what I'm actually highlighting when I want to get to the page I've marked. So I have to quit the thing and re-start it to achieve normal behaviour again.

These are un-acceptable showstopper bugs to me. Sorry, just my own opinion. You are free to dis-agree. I hope they fix it for other users' sake.

As far as the "suite" flavour goes: I had used Communicator (loyally) for so long, it does not bother me one bit as to how that software build is organized. In the past, I left it up for WEEKS at a time and never had a problem. My two cents.

Long live Mozilla in all their flavours.

Re:Good.

[stromthurman]

I've seen those same bugs in FF 1.5 as well. The flickering bookmark bug is a pain, it seems that occasionally if you click on a bookmark folder, it will stop the flickering, but this doesn't always work and the only sure method does seem to be to close the browser and start again. I'd recommend the session saver plugin as something to help cope with that irritation.

As for flash, I initially had the same problem, but it didn't seem to be tied to Flashblock, rather the flash plugin itself. I'm currently running Ubuntu, so this may not be the same issue you're having, but the solution I found was to backup my bookmarks, then blow away all of ~/.mozilla/firefox, and let 1.5 rebuild the directory as it saw fit. Simply removing the plugins folder wasn't enough.

I hope this helps, but if not, at least I wasted some of your time!

Re:Good.

[truefluke]

Thanks for trying to help me with my problem. I went to the 'Extension' menu sub-level under 'Tools' and did just that. I un-installed flashblock and then re-installed it from the mozdev page.

Same behaviour. Clicking on certain flash extensions doesn't work.

Thanks for trying tho. I fear my original point still stands.

Extensions/Plugins?

[alacqua]

I prefer Mozilla Suite to Firefox, but I'm worried that extensions/plugins/whatever-you-call-them will stop working with Seamonkey. Do they still work with the Seamonkey beta, and is this a problem going forward? Have those APIs which are applicable changed at all, and do they plan to change them in the future? Is this a function of the underlying gecko base or does the front end handle/decide this?