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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. Really, you're OK with that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    one crash every couple of hours is where we're setting the bar now?

    if this was a Microsoft product you'd be outraged and laughing about the ridiculous uptime.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.