Mozilla Releases SeaMonkey 2.0 185
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.
Who cares anymore? (Score:2, Interesting)
All we need is a web browser. Users need the flexibility to choose their own mail program. Besides, webmail is today's king. This is why "Seamonkey" is often forgotten.
More similarity with Firefox isn't all good (Score:4, Interesting)
I've used Seamonkey as my default browser for a long time now, mainly because I like the user interface better. Seamonkey 2.0 now uses Firefox's printing system, though, and this is one of the main things I don't like about Firefox. I use lpr for printing, not cups, and I liked the fact that earlier versions of Seamonkey (and "Mozilla" before it) remembered any changes I made to the "lpr command" in the print dialog. Firefox uses gtk-print, which reverts back to the default lpr command every time you click print, even in the same session. I've reported this as a bug in the Seamonkey bugzilla.
Regarding crashes, I've seen another report of this at LWN [lwn.net].
Re:So... (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:Glad to see! (Score:3, Interesting)
Seems to be the same. The new-tab button is still in its fixed position on the left-hand side.
The interface looks the same, except for a few differences
- The classic theme button icons look more firefox-like and less netscape 3-like (bad thing, in my books). A theme can solve that.
- There is now an rss icon w/ drop-down list on the right hand side of the address bar. So far its been unobtrusive.
- The url-guessing algorithm has been changed; it's now supposed to guess based on URL and page title. Not sure how that will work out, though the algo used in v. 1.1 was imperfect IMHO.
- There is no longer an option for a Bookmarks button in the Personal Toolbar. Huzzah, one less preference to fix on new installs!
- Speaking of preferences, the Preferences window is more or less the same. The only difference I've found so far is that Themes are now set under the View menu
One thing worth noting is the History function - they now store number of visits, as well as a timestamp of the last visit, which means sorting history is way easier. The Download manager now has timestamps, too.
Overall, I'm happy
Re:So... (Score:4, Interesting)
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org]
First plugin I install for SeaMonkey: Home button, toggles for colours, fonts, images, JavaScript, Java, Flash, pop-ups; drop downs for Proxy settings, User Agent, window size - couldn't live without it.
Re:SeaMonkey Composer is the best... (Score:1, Interesting)
The geneology is: Mozilla Compozer; SeaMonkey Composer; Nvu; KompoZer.
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/itd/tutorials/KompoZer/#startcontent [illinois.edu]
Linspire hired Daniel Glazman as lead developer on Nvu (and he pretty much did the whole effort).
A (German?) guy by the name of Kaze forked Nvu and he called that KompoZer.
Glazman has since moved on to other projects using more modern technologies.
The SeaMonkey team has been talking to Kaze and things look good for getting the KompoZer code into SeaMonkey Composer (or whatever it will be called) in the next iteration.
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