SeaMonkey 1.0 Released

SeaMonkey 1.0 Released

Steven Parker on 31 January 2006 - 10:39 · 31 comments & 6312 views

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Thanks beanboy89 for the heads up on this in Back Page News.

The SeaMonkey Council is proud to announce SeaMonkey 1.0, the first end-user release of their internet suite. This open source application, available as a free download from its mozilla.org-hosted website, features a state-of-the-art web browser and powerful email client, as well as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat client. For web developers, mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools are included as well. SeaMonkey 1.0 is one of the most complete, powerful, and secure internet software packages available today.

Download: Windows Installer 11.9 MB | Linux GTK2 13.3 MB

Download: Mac OSX 13.3 MB | Other Systems & Languages

View: Release Notes | SeaMonkey Project Web Page

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#1 TRC on 31 Jan 2006 - 10:51

Nice, I missed the old Navigator icons and theme. I don't like not having a Home button though, who's idea was that? My biggest complaint is that there's no drag and drop or right click functionality in the bookmarks menu. Also for some reason it's not working with AdMuncher.

Edit: I found an extension that adds the home button back, and installed the Seafox theme so it looks much nicer.

This may become my new default browser.

Last edited by TRC on 31 Jan 2006 - 14:49

#2 Tungsten T on 31 Jan 2006 - 11:19

Downloading now!

#3 ViperSnake on 31 Jan 2006 - 13:25

Yeah! I used Mozilla Suite back in the day....now I get it back!

#4 ian on 31 Jan 2006 - 14:10

It seems faster and lighter (low resource) than Firefox

#5 nookadum on 31 Jan 2006 - 20:08

This is a lot faster than the SeaMonkey 1.0 beta they had up.

Very good optimizations.

I was expecting Firefox and Thunderbird to kill the Mozilla Suite off, but I was expecting wrong.

Their new dev team did pretty damn well now.

#6 mikmo on 31 Jan 2006 - 22:15

So should I make the switch for IE to this then?

#7 Joshua-San on 31 Jan 2006 - 22:47

Oh wow, I almost forgot about this project. Hmm, this is very interesting, this browser seems to perform very well! It's amazingly fast, stable and full of features without bloating the interface.
Me likes.

#8 bubka on 31 Jan 2006 - 23:34

this kicks firefox's ass, still can use most of the extensions too

(3 replies) #9 FightingChance on 01 Feb 2006 - 02:11

Wait a minute; Mozilla makes another browser that 'kicks Firefox's ass' ? Seamonkey's browser isn't just FF 1.5, or at least Gecko?

#9.1 Croquant on 01 Feb 2006 - 12:59

No, it's none of those. Essentialy, it's the old Mozilla Suite recylcled and renamed: It's based on the old Mozilla Suite 1.8 codebase. It's not firefox.

#9.2 MrCobra on 02 Feb 2006 - 00:27

FF is based on the Geko (Netscape) engine. The SeaMonkey release is based on the DeerPark code of Fire Fox. Same browser, just a different look.

#9.3 Jugalator on 06 Feb 2006 - 15:51

And the Mozilla Foundation isn't making it either.

They're nowadays focusing on Firefox.

edit: It is a bit strange it's hosted on mozilla.org, but maybe it's out of kindness.
The 1.7 branch of the suite was the last governed by MoFo anyway.
The SeaMonkey Council is maintaining this one now.

#10 RYFX on 01 Feb 2006 - 20:12

Awesome!

(4 replies) #11 virtorio on 01 Feb 2006 - 20:27

The best thing to come out of Mozilla since Mozilla 1.8. Shame about the totally stupid name.

#11.1 Richteralan on 02 Feb 2006 - 07:26

Maybe the name will sound better if it has some "fire" and "fox" in it

#11.2 virtorio on 02 Feb 2006 - 09:19

Defiantly not, how about "Mozilla Browser Suite", works good plus it actually tells protential users what it is.

#11.3 Richteralan on 02 Feb 2006 - 21:35

Ugh, well,
can "Firefox" tells potential users what is it?

#11.4 Jugalator on 06 Feb 2006 - 15:56

The reason behind the name is basically this, from Wikipedia:

"The choice of "SeaMonkey" as the official name of the follow-up project has drawn criticism from some long-time users and testers of the Mozilla Suite, as many would have preferred the continued use of the name "Mozilla" or "Mozilla Suite". However, the Mozilla Foundation has stated that the name change was necessary in order to differentiate the new independent project from official projects and products of the foundation."

Point is that Mozilla isn't making it, it's nowadays an independent group of developers under the name of the SeaMonkey Council, so they can't call it Mozilla (something) anyway.

SeaMonkey happens to be the codename for this product since a long time, so they just stuck with that.

(1 reply) #12 altecxp on 02 Feb 2006 - 05:18

I actually like the name.

#12.1 RYFX on 03 Feb 2006 - 14:41

me too.

#13 jmc777 on 02 Feb 2006 - 08:00

Monkey > Fox

#14 jago_lfn on 03 Feb 2006 - 17:07

Buggy. Crashes on load. When it does load it crashes every site load

guess i'll stick with firefox.

#15 Justinpirate on 04 Feb 2006 - 01:12

I am so used to firefox that this just doesn't seem right to me, lol. I think I am a firefox user for life.

#16 altecxp on 04 Feb 2006 - 03:45

I have not had a single crash yet, i have it on 3 systems.

#17 Nasapion on 04 Feb 2006 - 23:27

Downloaded becase of all of the reports of blazing fast speeds;

Slower than FF here. UI Seems clunky and disorganized.
Staying with Firefox.

#18 altecxp on 04 Feb 2006 - 23:31

they use the same engine, there cant be any real speed difference, and the interface is still very Mozilla classic.

#19 Ned on 05 Feb 2006 - 17:41

How do you uninstall an extension in Sea Monkey?

Guess I'm going to answer my own question

extension manager 2.0

Download extension manager 2.0 & extension uninstaller api 2.0

Depending on how things develop, I may use seamonkey in the future.

Last edited by Ned on 08 Feb 2006 - 07:09

#20 Ifoow on 05 Feb 2006 - 18:02

don't like the interface

#21 RADicaLMMS on 06 Feb 2006 - 12:58

Does it have the same memory leak issue like FF?

#22 MNS on 06 Feb 2006 - 23:53

12mb for all that? haven't they learned a thing from Opera?

and who needs yet another WYSIWYG page maker? does anyone still even use those?

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