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.)"

Comments

Seriously?

[Anonymous Coward]

Look, it's a version number. Who cares?

Re:Seriously?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the point is you won't be getting interrupted every time you open the browser to update.

Couldn't care less if they just decided to skip to version 100, but I'm not using it again until they figure out how to be less annoying then a pop up penis pill ad.

Re:Seriously?

[Jane Q. Public]

"I just think it was a Lame attempt to seem cool compared to Google Chrome."

Why would anybody need to "seem" cool compared to Chrome? If you think a browser that was designed to help gather information about you and advertise to you is cool, that's your opinion I guess.

As Eben Moglen said recently in two videos on Slashdot, if you are interested in personal freedom and privacy, use Firefox. Period.

Re:Seriously?

[tlhIngan]

Add-on developers.

And people who hate how the UI seems to change every version. One version things act one way, the next and it acts another way.

It's why people don't complain so much about Chrome because the UI tends to be fairly stable. With Firefox, it's a game of "what did they change this time around?".

Things like the status bar, the URL bar (autocomplete only does the domain nowadays rather than the full URL... very annoying), etc. I think 16.0.1 did something with the zoom control now as well... like ti seems to persist the zoom settings across site loads and windows...).

Hello AdBlock devs??

[rodrigoandrade]

I need ABP to block Slashvertisements!!

Re:Release weekly

[Lonewolf666]

Seconded.

I also like the UI better than that of Firefox - the latter is a bit too eager to hide everything in drop-down menus. While that does save some screen real estate, I prefer the Seamonkey approach that leaves some more controls in plain sight.

Re:Default Interface

[AuMatar]

I don't know about you, but when I'm using a graphical program like a web browser, my right hand is on the mouse, not the keyboard. The vast majority of the time I'm reading, not typing. Also, backspace to go back is a horrendous mistake in browser design- for every time I've used it and meant it, there's been 3 times where I hit it accidentally while typing a post somewhere and lost all my content.