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."

Comments

Competitors

[WiseMuse]

Who are the major players in the web application suite area?

Re:Competitors

[free space]

I'd say Opera, they have web, email and integrated clients for all sorts of stuff in one package.

Also, IE+outlook express (yuck!)+msn messenger aren't really a suite, but they come from the same company :)

Re:Competitors

[bunratty]

There's been some talk of packaging Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird together as a sort of Internet suite.

Re:Competitors

[0racle]

Thats a great idea, they could call it Sea Monkey.

Spell Checker

[jmagar.com]

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!

Re:Spell Checker

[bradkittenbrink]

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.

Re:Spell Checker

[drinkypoo]

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!

Re:Spell Checker

[99BottlesOfBeerInMyF]

MacOS X DOES provide an inline spell checker, though I believe it only works for Cocoa apps, not Carbon, and I think they leave it up to developers whether to implement it or not...

This is not quite correct. The OS X spellchecking service, like all the other services, works automatically in Cocoa apps without any work on the part of the developer (as I understand) and functions inline. Developers can integrate it in additional ways as well and it can be included in Carbon applications, but the developers have to do it specifically. For example, Firefox3 alpha 1 includes the native OS X spellchecking with the same dictionary as all the other applicatons, despite not being a cocoa application.

There's also a spell checker on the Services menu, though its more for checking the spelling of individual words.

This is the same spell checker and uses the same dictionary. It is just a different interface for getting to that function.

Re:SeaMonkey vs Firefox / Thunderbird

[UnRDJ]

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.

Theme and extension to enhance Seamonkey UI

[Anonymous Coward]

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.
Try it out here:
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&conten t=c_linuxseagnome.php

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&conten t=c_linuxmonkeymenu.php

Re:SeaMonkey vs Firefox / Thunderbird

[noldrin]

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.

Re:memory leak fud ..

[bunratty]

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.