Your thoughts on Sea Monkey?

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:51 pm

I started using it yesterday. It seems faster than firefox in loading, and I can use it with OTHER Applications without my PC exploding. Anyone else tried it? I want to change firefox for something better.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:13 pm

it is certainly lighter than firefox, and is an internet suit rather than just a browser. it's pretty decent but everyone has different tastes.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:18 pm

I think we all know MY thoughts...

But to reiterate them: FireFox is a dumbed-down, crippled, glitchier version of SeaMonkey that only took off due to a serious effort at pimping it.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:49 pm

If Seamonkey was just a browser compenent that I could just directly download (I don't want the other stuff), I'd try it out. However, I use Opera primarily so my Firefox usage is at a minimum.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:07 am

try a clean install(backing up your bookmarks and fraggin %appdata%\Mozilla Firefox) and then see if FF still crashes your applications.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:38 pm

no matter how clean a program is, if it's heavy it has the potential to crash more, so firefox for the must part will never be as efficient as Sea Monkey because it's heavier and not as simple.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:05 pm

Panzer88 wrote:no matter how clean a program is, if it's heavy it has the potential to crash more, so firefox for the must part will never be as efficient as Sea Monkey because it's heavier and not as simple.

Actually, both are, for the most part, about equal in terms of complexiy(on the browser side).
Arguably, the large number of removed features should make FireFox LIGHTER.

It's just that FireFox is less mature software.
Compounded by a dev team that cares more about adding gimmicks than making sure what's there actually works. Their idea of fixing the problem is to code a crash recovery feature so you can usually re-open the sites you were on after it crashes.
The Seamonkey team's idea of a fix is to STOP THE CRASH.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:45 pm

We now return to our serious discussion already in progress.

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:24 pm

phOnYmIkE wrote:could it be that you guys are actually bashing firefox? I thought firefox was the best browser in the world omg you gotta go download it now!!! doesn't matter, internet explorer is and always will be king. so my opinion on sea monkey is that it sucks, plus it has the stupidest name for a piece of software evar!!1

I only find one BUT for SeaMonkey: It doesn´t open hotmail. Not that I care that much about my hotmail account.
Other than that, it´s faster and more efficient than any other browser I´ve used, including IE.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:49 pm

phOnYmIkE wrote:could it be that you guys are actually bashing firefox? I thought firefox was the best browser in the world omg you gotta go download it now!!! doesn't matter, internet explorer is and always will be king. so my opinion on sea monkey is that it sucks, plus it has the stupidest name for a piece of software evar!!1

no not bashing it, just semi-ignorantly saying that seamonkey=firefox -buggy + smarts.

man I have made such a retard of myself over the entire board today *sigh*

and before any of you say "just today

" what I mean is more than usual.

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:20 am

Panzer88 wrote:
phOnYmIkE wrote:could it be that you guys are actually bashing firefox? I thought firefox was the best browser in the world omg you gotta go download it now!!! doesn't matter, internet explorer is and always will be king. so my opinion on sea monkey is that it sucks, plus it has the stupidest name for a piece of software evar!!1
no not bashing it, just semi-ignorantly saying that seamonkey=firefox -buggy + smarts.

man I have made such a retard of myself over the entire board today *sigh*

and before any of you say "just today " what I mean is more than usual.

just today

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:32 am

Panzer88 wrote:man I have made such a retard of myself over the entire board today *sigh*

Everyone does or has...

...

You too Camacho.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:16 am

Corronchilejano wrote:
phOnYmIkE wrote:could it be that you guys are actually bashing firefox? I thought firefox was the best browser in the world omg you gotta go download it now!!! doesn't matter, internet explorer is and always will be king. so my opinion on sea monkey is that it sucks, plus it has the stupidest name for a piece of software evar!!1
I only find one BUT for SeaMonkey: It doesn´t open hotmail.

O RLY?

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:25 am

I just have this weird bug on hotmail. I open it normally, and RANDOMLY after deleting a message, it starts loading SOMETHING and stays there forever on a blank page.

WSoD

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:17 pm

your computer is broken. you are testing the latest version of firefox right?

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:24 pm

Deathlike2 wrote:If Seamonkey was just a browser compenent that I could just directly download (I don't want the other stuff), I'd try it out. However, I use Opera primarily so my Firefox usage is at a minimum.

Or you could compile it without the extra components... oh noes, extra effort ! :p
Anyway, I use it and never had anything wrong happen, so heh.
SVG support is a bit weak, but when you start caring about SVG, it already means something.