SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha released

An anonymous reader writes "SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha was released last week. Users of the Mozilla Suite or Netscape should check it out - it contains numerous new features and bugfixes when compared to Mozilla 1.7, but offers the same basic look and feel. There are a few screenshots on the SeaMonkey blog showing off some of the features. For those who don't know, SeaMonkey is the continuation of the Mozilla Suite after the Mozilla Foundation ceased shipping new releases."

Re:FP

[Anonymous Coward]

As I recall, don't subscribers just get the chance to prepare their posts, but cannot actually submit until its gone live?

(trip master monkey uses this to great effect)

You know what day it is!

[Anonymous Coward]

Avast me mateys! Aargh! It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day! [talklikeapirate.com]

Aargh! Me SeaMonkeys! Aye, they waited for the right date to announce it.

Bljarne!

A Simple Observation

[digital-madman]

Okay the browser is called SeaMonkey... Humans "may" have evolved from monkeys... and the Internet is mostly used as a redundant porno delivery service.

That is a perfectly named browser!

Re:what's the point?

[halleluja]

Can someone explain why this exists?

Those free AOL cd's need to be filled with something.

Besides, it's easier to tell users to click seaclunky/setup.exe than first firefox/setup.exe, next thunderbird/setup.xe etc.

Re:You know what day it is!

[digital-madman]

International Talk like a Pirate day..hmmm??? So I should try to be uber-leet and start downloading some serious 0-day and say nuts to the RIAA??? -Digital Madman

Re:The point

[mshiltonj]

I remember distictively when Firefox first came out, the users were bragging they were leet.

I remember that, too. During recess, they would all gather around the swing set and the teeter-totter and tease us:

We are lee-et and you-ou're no-ot.
Neiner, neiner, nei-ner!.
We use firefox and you-ou do-on't.
Neiner, neiner, nei-ner.

And the Principal never did anything.

Good times.

Re:The point

[noamt]

Go ahead and troll rate me for calling Firefox users/developers leet if you want.

It's spelled 1337.

Troll!

Re:Using Mozilla, not going to use Firefox?

[FoboldFKY]

And here I thought Firefox was just the browser component of Mozilla without all the other useful components. Why would you insist on using a less-functional, cutesy program (whether it is called Pheonix, Firebird or Firefox) when Mozilla can do everything it can and a hell of a lot more?

If there is one upside to open source software is that legacy software will never die so long as some people actually want to use it and find it useful. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, they can go on improving existing, proven programs. Even then, features can be ported to those newer apps (say, oh I don't know, via Gecko).

(See, kids: there's more than one way to spin a discussion! Disclaimer: I use Firefox, but I still respect the SeaMonkey users' decision to keep using it.)