Mozilla Releases SeaMonkey 2.0

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.

Really, you're OK with that?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Totally forgot this existed...

[sleekware]

Time to give SeaMonkey another shot!

50% ?

[daveime]

it's crashed once -- but only once -- in several hours of use

As "several" could (potentially) refer to any number more than two, then it could (potentially) "only" crash 8 times a day, or 56 times a week, or 2912 times a year.

Not a terribly positive endorsement to be honest.

Re:So...

[AllNicksTaken]

I do. I like its interface much better than FireFox. Crazy, I know. Unfortunately many websites run compatibility checks and freak out if your browser isn't FireFox, Safari, or IE. My main preference of all stupid things is that I have always hated Firefox's search bar. Too many years of searching via SeaMonkey's address bar I guess.

flash ?

[polar red]

it's crashed once -- but only once -- in several hours of use.

flash ?

Do you get like... 2 mails per day?

[Colin Smith]

Some of us are far more popular and have to deal with 3 or 4 emails per day. Bayesian based automatic tagging, filtering etc.

Webmail is king only for that 99% who are clueless, which is good, it means I don't get bothered by them.

 

Totally Your Opinion

[repetty]

> Users need the flexibility to choose their own mail program.

Could you please direct me to the RFC that stipulates this?

Maybe by choosing SeaMonkey they HAVE chosen their own email program.

Well, you got first post, at least.

--Richard

Re:Do you get like... 2 mails per day?

[mixmatch]

Whenever I've had to deal with multiple emails, I have used gmail's ability to download mail from other servers and tag them automatically for me...

Re:Do you get like... 2 mails per day?

[Korin43]

Exactly. Gmail is nice, but connecting to it from Evolution is nicer.

Re:Who cares anymore?

[mqduck]

Users need the flexibility to choose their own mail program.

They have that flexibility. They can use Firefox.

Besides, webmail is today's king.

I don't know about you, but I can't stand webmail.

Re:Really, you're OK with that?

[jeffstar]

here's reproducability for you

1. install adobe flash player
2. browse the web with any browser, especially visit sites with flash content. For extra daring attempts, open multiple tabs with flash content at the same time.
3. the crashes!!!

That being said youtube doesn't normally cause crashes for me, so it is probably shitty flash applications from shitty websites.

i hope to god something has replaced flash in 10 years.

Re:Do you get like... 2 mails per day?

[Randle_Revar]

I haven't found any email client that is as usable and nice as gmail.