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Seamonkey 1.1 Released
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."
Who are the major players in the web application suite area?
Well done Seamonkey!
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Actually Thunderbird has built in NewsReader as well. Firefox has a couple of excellent newsreader extensions, and an HTML extension as well.
I also don't see the advantage of SeaMonkey over Firefox+Thunderbird, though perhaps I'm missing something. I wonder why developers continue to invest work in SeaMonkey rather than just create a meta-package that combines Firefox + Thunderbird + necessary extensions.
Impossible is nothing.
>Wanna bet someone will post a 'I like Seamonkey ..
>except for the memory leak problem
It ain't FUD, bud. Firefox does have memory leak
problems. It's still my favorite and primary browser,
but the problems are real.
Seamonkey/Mozilla is much more customizable. I particularly like the ability to make key bindings, as well as define scroll ranges. Firefox tries way too hard to be minimal. Look at the preference page, there's barely anything there. Tons of features I found useful before Firefox came about were just cut. I don't want minimal, I like having lots of features.
I am writing a theme called SeaGnome for Seamonkey so it blends in nicely with GTK desktops. I have the Mail and Browser section but am still working on the remaining suite applications.n t=c_linuxseagnome.php
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Try it out here:
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conte
I also have written an extension for Seamonkey which allows you to collapse down the toolbars and provides a quick menu to often used features. Great to reclaim screen realestate while browsing.
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conte
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.
I think the FUD that the OP was referring to was not that Firefox and SeaMonkey do have some leaks, but that some people try to make "the memory leak" seem like a huge, obvious problem that is going unfixed. I've seen several posts lately saying something to the effect that "the memory leak" is not being addressed. The reality is that the leaks are being fixed. I also don't see any evidence that Firefox or SeaMonkey leak any more than other browsers. So there is FUD, and also you are not just imagining memory leaks.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
SeaMonkey 1.5 will be the next release. As per MozillaWiki:
The current working title for a release from that work is "SeaMonkey 1.5" (subject to change) with a release expected in 2007. (This work takes place on "Mozilla trunk".)
If you use portable Firefox a lot you might want to look into Google Browser Sync. It keeps all your stuff synced across multiple browsers.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Actually, Mozilla has almost everything to do with SeaMonkey. They developed Mozilla 1.8, which SeaMonkey is still based upon. They host the source code, bug database, and releases. The core of SeaMonkey is shared with Firefox and Thunderbird so most Mozilla development directly improves SeaMonkey with no extra effort. SeaMonkey remains an official Mozilla project. SeaMonkey simply isn't a Mozilla product, which means that Mozilla doesn't drive SeaMonkey-specific development or provide support.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
You can choose to download/install only the components you desire, in the installer.
and now I use FireFox/Thunderbird.
Why? Extensions. I actually like Seamonkey better for tab options (Ex: Firefox doesn't honor the preference to open a new tab showing the home page.) and the overall integration (icons in the bottom left of the screen, ctrl-[123] to switch between browser/email, etc. Another one: One theme applies to the browser and email.
However, I run Firefox and Thunderbird now for the extensions.
But, I wish one theme could be used for both.
I wish it had all the options (or honored the about:config options that do work, somewhat).
If/when Seamonkey supports FireFox/Thunderbird extensions, will quickly go back to it.
Don't steal. The government hates competition.