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Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers?

Rexdude writes "Firefox continues to be criticized for their new versioning system and being a memory hog. People talk about Chrome, IE9, Opera as alternatives — but do Slashdotters ever use Seamonkey? I've never seen anyone mention it in any discussion on browsers. The successor to the original Mozilla Suite, it has a full-blown email/news/RSS client, Chatzilla, and an HTML editor. Also several other default features that would require separate extensions for Firefox. And they don't update their versions like crazy either; the current version is 2.13.1. I've been quite happy with it so far — it's snappier to use than Firefox. How many people on Slashdot use Seamonkey, and what has been your experience? (Note — I'm not affiliated with the project.)"

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  1. Re:Seriously? by Synerg1y · · Score: 5, Funny

    Add-on developers.

  2. Re:*Crickets* by vlm · · Score: 2, Funny

    5 Minutes and no takers?

    They're all trying to use seamonkey to fake the user-agent string so the apple keynote can be viewed.

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  3. Re:*Crickets* by leromarinvit · · Score: 4, Funny

    They've already used their 5 minute data allowance for this month.

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  4. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, but what are you going to do in a week from now? :)

  5. Re:Memory hog? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uh, say what? I regularly hit 800 MB with just 5-6 tabs, ...

    Browse p0rn sites w/thinner girls. It uses less RAM.

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  6. Re:It has a WYSIWYG editor by LordLimecat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I dont always do WSIWYG HTML, but when I do, I prefer Seamonkey
    FTFY

  7. Re:Seriously? by Mitchell314 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Use unsigned long long for version tracking. :P

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