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Mozilla Releases SeaMonkey 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the little-people-in-fishbowls dept.

binarybum writes "Often forgotten, but the independent open source spirit lives strong in the once Mozilla project — now SeaMonkey. Version 2.0 is finally out and rivals Firefox with similar features but integrated email with a small footprint." The Register has a short piece on the 2.0 release, which mentions that SeaMonkey is now based on Firefox 3.5.4. Stephen Shankland lists some of the features in a handy bullet-point style, too. I'm using the new release right now; it's crashed once — but only once — in several hours of use.

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  1. Re:Not based on Firefox, other way around by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. The rendering engine is Gecko, and until this release, Seamonkey was stuck with the same version of Gecko as as FF v2.

  2. Re:Not based on Firefox, other way around by pete-classic · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm also working from memory, but I think that Gecko is the engine. Firefox used to be the engineering test-bed browser component for the Mozilla suite, but end users decided they liked the light and fast standalone browser.

    -Peter

  3. Re:So... by BForrester · · Score: 5, Informative

    I hate the search bar in Firefox too, so I deleted it and set up keyword searches for the half-dozen search engines I use regularly. (If you're not familiar with this FF function, right-click on any search box and select "add a keyword for this search."

    For example, "g" is my google keyword. To google something, I type
    g something

    It works like a charm.

  4. It did what once? by glwtta · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wait, this is the final release and it crashed within a few hours?

    That's... not good.

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  5. SeaMonkey Composer is the best... by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Informative

    SeaMonkey Composer is the best way to make WYSIWYG, What You See Is What You Get, HTML files.

    Unless, of course, you want to deal with the quirkiness and huge expense of Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver has more features, but SeaMonkey is usually all you need.

    Use TsWebEditor for Tidying SeaMonkey HTML files.

    1. Re:SeaMonkey Composer is the best... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Here. SeaMonkey's Composer as a stand-alone program.

      You're welcome.

    2. Re:SeaMonkey Composer is the best... by mark_osmd · · Score: 2, Informative

      Isn't that based off nvu and not Seamonkey's composer?

    3. Re:SeaMonkey Composer is the best... by kaze_fr · · Score: 4, Informative

      I confirm most of this story, except that I'm French, not German. ;-)

      The way I see it, Nvu was a trademarked fork of [Mozilla|SeaMonkey] Composer: it's been designed in a way that made it incompatible with the Mozilla trunk, probably on purpose. The KompoZer project aims to backport most of the Nvu code to the Mozilla codebase — hence the upcoming merge with SeaMonkey.

      KompoZer will remain a standalone app: it will be built on SeaMonkey 2.1, and SeaMonkey Composer should have most of KompoZer's features and bug-fixes.

      -- Fabien Cazenave, KompoZer lead dev.

  6. Re:Oh noes.... by hairyfeet · · Score: 2, Informative

    For older machines I would suggest Kmeleon if you are low on RAM, and Kmeleon CCF ME if you have over 128Mb. Both are built on the Gecko engine and VERY fast, but CCF ME has built in ABP and since it is a standalone also makes an excellent flash drive browser, but if you are below 128Mb I've found the memory footprint of stock Kmeleon can't be beat. And both can be run on Win95 on up according to the FAQ.

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  7. Re:Really, you're OK with that? by b0bby · · Score: 1, Informative

    My wife leaves Firefox open on Vista with 50+ tabs open, some with flash & some with pdfs, for weeks on end. It actually rarely crashes, much to my amazement. Usually after a few weeks it starts acting a little weird, I close a few tabs, shut down Firefox & re-open (it's set to keep all the tabs) and it takes a couple of minutes for all the tabs to load. Then it's good for another few weeks.

  8. WARNING for users with several profiles by geekoid · · Score: 2, Informative

    When it asks you to import profiles, it will ONLY work if you select a profile that comes with Seamonkey i.e. default. This is not intuitive and counter to all previous upgrades.

    You have to manual crate a new profile with the profile name you want, and then use the command line to import that ONE profile.

    c:\%APPATH%\mozilla\seamonkey -P -migration

    The profile name is case sensitive and MUST be in dbl quotes.

    This was a pain in the ass for people like me that have a profile for each person in their home. It's LAZY DEVELOPMENT and the should be ashamed of themselves.

    I know, you're thinking 'So you have to got o the command line, so what?" well that's a deal killer for a lot of people. There is NO GOOD REASON why this is a manual process.
    The documentation that explains this comes across as hubris and with a too damn bad attitude. People want to know why OS hasn't defeated MS? it's because of shit like this, I actually considered loading outlook.

    No, this is NOT a troll or flame bait, it's facts.

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  9. Re:Why?! by geekoid · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because a lot of people like having that integration.

    You don't? Then use something else and quit whining.

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  10. SeaMonkey, Portable Edition 2.0 for USB drives by CritterNYC · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, I certainly remember it well and fire it up from time to time. It was what I used before Firefox and Thunderbird came along. Now that 2.0 has gone gold, hopefully some new users will find it and be intrigued.

    As we (at PortableApps.com) do with Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird, we've packaged it as a portable app so you can use it on your flash drive/portable hard drive or try it out without installing it locally. 10 languages are available.

    SeaMonkey, Portable Edition 2.0 at PortableApps.com

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  11. Re:Still prefer the suite, just for the browser by BenoitRen · · Score: 2, Informative

    It still has the Book of Mozilla (I think it's part of Gecko, as Firefox has it too), but about:kitchensink hasn't been included for a long time. You can install an extension to have that back, though! Here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/742