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Seamonkey 1.1 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the release-the-seamonkies-of-doom dept.

stuuf writes "Version 1.1 of the Seamonkey Internet Application Suite is now available, with quite a few improvements over the 1.0 series. Some of the new features include spell checking in form text areas, a new tagging system to classify email, a better indicator for secure web sites and preview images for browser tabs. This release also includes many of the updates that have gone into the Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2 branches. Check out the release notes and download page for more."

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  1. Spell Checker by jmagar.com · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It's about time that the spell check feature become standard in all browsers. It boggles the mind that this has for a very long time been the main reason to get the Google toolbar, and the browser folks have not responded by including it in their package. With all this web 2.0 hype, and you being the person of the year, why is there no spell checker in the tool we use to create all that damned content?

    Well done Seamonkey!

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    1. Re:Spell Checker by bradkittenbrink · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Probably because most of us dont use browsers to create content, only to view it. Creators tend to use tooling with spellcheckers included.
      ... he says as creating "content" from within a browser.
    2. Re:Spell Checker by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Insightful
      I'm not quite sure why I need a browser, e-mail/news reader, IRC client, and HTML editor together in one package.

      Well then don't download it and STFU. What a waste of bytes. Guess what? I don't need a mammogram. Maybe they should take those breast cancer awareness commercials off the TV!

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  2. Re:SeaMonkey vs Firefox / Thunderbird by noldrin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you are using any combination of Browser, Mail and Composer, Seamonkey is more compact. Also traditionally firefox has lagged behind seamonkey in tab functionality. These days I like it because it tends to filter out some of the craziness of firefox, so by the time Seamonkey gets features they tend to be the best ones with very bugs.