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SeaMonkey 1.1.7 Web-browser Suite Updated
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SeaMonkey is a web browser that shares much of the same base code as the Firefox web browser. It also contains an advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor, and more more, utilizing the latest Mozilla-developed technology. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" — and have it stable enough for corporate use.
The SeaMonkey project has released a new version of the all-in-one internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.3 closes several security vulnerabilities and fixes several smaller problems found in previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey stays at the same level of security as its siblings Firefox and Thunderbird, which are issuing updates for the same problems this week as well.
In addition to users of older SeaMonkey versions, the SeaMonkey team strongly urges users of the old Mozilla Suite and Netscape 4, 6 or 7 to upgrade to SeaMonkey 1.1.6. Those software packages suffer from a large and rising number of security vulnerabilities because they are no longer being maintained. SeaMonkey 1.1.6 is a drop-in replacement, providing the same basic suite functionality plus additional features, without known security problems but with current updates.
The SeaMonkey project team took over development of the all-in-one internet application suite after Netscape and later the Mozilla Foundation ceased to work on it. Under the new name, users are provided with current versions of the established software package.
SeaMonkey 1.1.7 is available for free download from the open source project's website at:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org
New in version 1.1.7
New Features and Fixes
General
• Security and stability fixes
• The problems with running SeaMonkey from read-only application directories have been fixed in this release. (Bug 389136).
The SeaMonkey project is an Open Source effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" - and have it stable enough for corporate use
I've been using SeaMonkey alpha, beta, and final releases as a workhorse browser for nearly three years, and have found them both satisfyingly fast and mostly rock-stable. The speed is no surprise, since Sea Monkey uses the same Mozilla Gecko browser engine as is used in in the current version of FireFox
Why a separate browser project under the Mozilla.org umbrella? Actually, there are three, including flagship Firefox and OS X-only Camino, plus SeaMonkey, which is focused on keeping an actively developed suite browser available from Mozilla. Netsacape Navigator 9.0 is also a member of this family of browsers.
At the dawn of the Internet as a mass participation phenomenon, there was Netscape Communicator, the dominantly popular choice in Internet software. Communicator included a browser - Netscape Navigator, plus an email client - Netscape Messenger, and an HTML authoring module - Netscape Composer, thus enabling users to do most of their Internet-related computing in one application.
Then Microsoft Internet Explorer came on the scene and shifted the dominant Internet software paradigm to single-purpose applications. Explorer was a browser only, and for email you could use MS Outlook Express. Web authoring required a third application, and so on. This motif suited me fine. I was (and remain) a Eudora fan, so I never really used the Messenger module in Netscape anyway, And I preferred Claris Homepage or just a good HTML-savvy text editor for Web authoring. However, many Netscape users liked the all-in-one approach, which the program has stuck with to this day.
Aside from the much more attractive SeaMonkey logo, this browser otherwiise looks almost exactly like old Mozilla 1.7 in terms of appearance, as well as including a Netscape Communicator style email client, a WYSIWYG web page composer and an IRC chat application, plus mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools, SeaMonkey 1.1.2 is a powerful, comprehensive, and secure internet software package. If you are familiar with Mozilla or classic Netscape, you'll feel right at home in SeaMonkey, but underneath the hood much of the core code is shared with the Firefox 2.x browser.
SeaMonkey Suite modules and features:
Navigator
Tabbed browsing gives you a better way to surf the net. You no longer have to open one page at a time. With tabbed browsing, open several pages at once with one click. Plus, your homepage can be multiple pages, in tabs.
Popup blocker lets you surf the web without interruption from annoying ads.
Image Manager lets you block images to remove offensive images or speed up the rendering of web sites.
Find as you type gives you another way to navigate a page. Just start typing to jump from link to link or to find a word or phrase within a page.
Plus all the features a modern browser should have including: Advanced security settings; Password, Download, and Cookie managers; Themes; multi-language and multi-platform support; and, the latest in Web Standards.
Mail & Newsgroups
Junk mail controls helps you take back control of your e-mail from spammers. SeaMonkey's adaptive junk mail control gets smarter with use and is personalized to the e-mail that you receive.
Manage your mail with customizable Labels and Mail Views. Color code your e-mail to help you prioritize. Sort your mail with views to help you through your e-mail much faster.
Multiple Accounts support helps you manage all your mail through one interface.
SeaMonkey Messenger includes Enterprise ready features such as S/MIME, return receipts, Address Books, LDAP support, and digital signing.
Composer
SeaMonkey's powerful yet simple HTML editor keeps getting better with dynamic image and table resizing, quick insert and delete of table cells, improved CSS support, and support for positioned layers. For all your documents and website projects, Composer is all you need.
I'm delighted that the Sea Monkey team has chosen to continue offering a Mac OS X version in their development plans. There seems to be in mini- trend back toward suite browsers, with Opera also recently adding built-in email, newsreader, and instant messaging clients with Opera 8.x. The downside of that of course is size, Sea Monkey is a pretty big download at 22 MB and change.
As a browser, I find SeaMonkey very pleasant to use. Like the other Mozilla Gecko-based browsers, (except for Camino), it does not support OS X Services, and doesn't have Opera's wonderful resume last session feature (now also a feature of Firefox 2), but aside from those points, it does pretty well everything most of us need a browser to do, and does it well.
I haven't checked out the mail and HTML authoring modules other than to open them for a quick look, but I anticipate that if you are a user of Netscape/Mozilla Mail and/or Composer, you will feel right at home in Sea Monkey's version of those programs too.
System requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.2 or later
* PowerPC processor (266 MHz or faster recommended)
* 64 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
* 100 MB of free hard disk space (significantly less space is required if you reduce the cache size)
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Download:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/
Charles W. Moore
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