SeaMonkey 1.0 is out

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CTho9305

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Those of you waiting for a stable release before switching... now is the time. For those who don't know, SeaMonkey is the continuation of the Mozilla Suite (it's basically Mozilla Suite 1.8). See also the SeaMonkey blog and the official announcement :)

My announcement of the beta is here. It's powered by the same Gecko engine as Firefox 1.5 (well, actually what Firefox 1.5.0.1 will use).

edit: Firefox 1.5.0.1 has shipped. Any security updates or other backend improvements (including any memory leak fixes in the core) were already in SeaMonkey 1.0, since SM1.0 is based on Gecko 1.8.0.1.
 
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Zugzwang152

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Originally posted by: scott
How's that differetnt than Firefox / Thunderbird?
Is it Seamonkeys better?
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Seamonkey is the all-in-one solution. Firefox and Thunderbird are standalone apps.
 
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aux

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:)

<- still likes Mozilla Suite better than FF, time to upgrade from Mozilla 1.7.12 to SeaMonkey
 
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jadinolf

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Originally posted by: aux
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<- still likes Mozilla Suite better than FF, time to upgrade from Mozilla 1.7.12 to SeaMonkey
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I'm complete now. All three have said good-bye to Mozilla and have SeaMonkey on them. :D
 
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Zepper

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Yup, I've been using either Netscape or Mozilla as my default for about forever. I DLed SeaMonkey today and will be installing it tomorrow... Dang this cheap DSL surely beats dial-up all to heck. Half of SeaMonkey was DLed before I decided where to put it. :D

Does anone know if SeaMonkey will be able to hook directly to Netscape Mail? I've had an N-M mailbox for about as long as they have offered the service, but the only direct link I've found was in the recent version of the Netscape Suite (but I don't like what 'SOL' has done to Netscape).

I've been playing with Opera - unfortunately it lacks some things I really like about Mozilla e.g. the Back arrow history drop-down (ooops, I just found the "back arrow" drop down menu - why'd they have to go and make it work differently from most of the others?) and the way it returns to where you were on the page after a back arrow. Plus I like the more organized way you can set up Mozilla's email client. OTOH, Opera has some great features I'd miss if I had to give them up. I guess I'll have to use all three... (I still have to use IE for very limited purposes).

.bh.
 
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imported_LoKe

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There's no memory leak in Seamonkey. That's enough for me.

Question, is the "ctrl + 1, 2, 3, etc" option for tab scrolling available in the new release?
 
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CTho9305

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Question, is the "ctrl + 1, 2, 3, etc" option for tab scrolling available in the new release?
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No, we've used those hotkeys for years to do other things. ^1 gives you a browser window, ^2 takes you to mailnews, ^4 is composer, ^5 is address book, ^6 is IRC, and I don't know what ^3 is/was.
 
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CTho9305

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ctrl+pgup, ctrl+pgdown, ctrl+tab, ctrl+shift-tab, focus a tab by clicking it (might have to click twice) and use the arrow keys...
 
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Prie et al.,

Firefox is a stand-alone browser while SeaMonkey is an integrated suite of internet tools. It has browser, mail/news client, chat client, and HTML web page editor all operating from within one consistent user interface. A lot of the browser code is the same, so you will notice a lot of similarity. Anyone that uses Ff will get into SeaMonkey quite easily.

Now that most folks have tons of disk space to burn, it doesn't cost anything to have as many different browsers installed as you care to play with. You can set one as default or just leave them to fight for your attention. I have 4 or 5 browsers installed at any given time as well as several email clients. I haven't gone too crazy from it yet...

.bh.
 
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Can you easily import FF cookies, bookmarks, and saved passwords into Seamonkey?

How many of you Seamonkey users are former FF users?
 
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CTho9305

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Can you easily import FF cookies, bookmarks, and saved passwords into Seamonkey?

How many of you Seamonkey users are former FF users?
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I would expect that just copying cookies.txt and bookmarks.html would take care of the first 2. This page can help you figure out passwords.
 
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