SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha is now available. It's based on the code that would have been released as Mozilla 1.8 beta4, so it's probably better than alpha quality. Those of you who like the integration of having mail & browser in one, or the look and feel of the suite will like it.
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Mozilla users: SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha is out
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kamper
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Will this be with the same version of gecko that's going into firefox 1.5? Will all the svg stuff be there when 1.0 goes final?
n0c, I don't mean to put you off your preferred shortcuts, but do you know that apple-left and apple-right also control forwards and backwards? I find those extremely handy.
n0c, I don't mean to put you off your preferred shortcuts, but do you know that apple-left and apple-right also control forwards and backwards? I find those extremely handy.
Unfortunately, that probably doesn't work on Mac OS X. 😛
Does that work with konqueror? Old versions of konqueror embedded? Camino?
It does work with IE too, so that's kind of cool. I'd just rather have my backspace key work how it should.
EDIT: It works in an old konq-e on OpenBSD/Zaurus. Maybe I'll have to relearn this...
I left the default behavior the way it was on all the platforms. Unix geeks were whining when backspace went back because they'd accidentally hit it outside of a textbox and lose form data, and that wasn't a fight I could win. It's a power-user feature, so it didn't get any UI (sometimes it's hard to find the options you want as it is... we're working on improving the situation). You can read a little bit of the discussion here.
Gecko 1.8 will go into Firefox 1.5 and SeaMonkey 1.0. Right now, SM1.0a and FF1.5b1 both use Gecko 1.8b4 (though SeaMonkey includes an extra security patch). The "SVG stuff" is here now (except in the GTK1 build, but if you really use GTK1 you're probably not the kind of person who uses up-to-date software in general 😉). You can view SVG images directly in SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha without any Adobe plugins required 🙂.
Camino would be faster - it's got a native UI. But if you're using a browser on many platforms, it's nice to have the same browser everywhere. Plus, most of the platform differences can be configured with (sometimes hidden) preferences, so you can make it basically identical.
Pretty much. You can install just the browser though - the rest of the components are optional. The browser alone isn't much bigger than Firefox (if it is at all - I'm not sure)... the Firefox installer uses 7zip compression instead of just zip, which makes the download smaller and hepls people "believe" Firefox is "smaller" and "faster".
It looks kinda different-looking, but it's also tabbed - if you type something in the URL bar, ctrl+enter opens it in a new tab instead of alt+enter but otherwise it's basically the same. The prefs might be off by default, and if they are, edit->preferences, navigator->tabbed browsing. I suggest, from top to bottom: on, off, add, on, on.
It doesn't currently have autoscroll (middle click in an empty area, move the mouse up/down) but there's an extension to do it, and an implementation of it should be built-in for SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta. Tab drag&drop is also something we're hoping to do for the beta (I have patches for both features, but they're waiting for someone to review them and make sure they're OK).
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