Sea-Monkey Browser

lockharte · Post by **lockharte** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:51 am

It's supposed to be based off the old Mozilla suite browser. Have any of you guys tried it?

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:07 am

As far as I'm concerned, it's just Mozilla (the entire suite) under a new name. Not really special IMO.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:17 pm

Deathlike2 wrote:As far as I'm concerned, it's just Mozilla (the entire suite) under a new name. Not really special IMO.

No offense, but that sounds like ignorance speaking. You could almost say the same thing about Firefox when it was new. Oh, it's just Mozilla under a new name.

Just a quick visit to the Sea Monkey page and a bit of reading will show several features Mozilla never had.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:47 pm

Nightcrawler wrote:
Deathlike2 wrote:As far as I'm concerned, it's just Mozilla (the entire suite) under a new name. Not really special IMO.
No offense, but that sounds like ignorance speaking. You could almost say the same thing about Firefox when it was new. Oh, it's just Mozilla under a new name.

Just a quick visit to the Sea Monkey page and a bit of reading will show several features Mozilla never had.

Um, they intentionally retired the name "Mozilla suite name":
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7.13/

Mozilla Suite 1.7.13 includes fixes for security and stability issues. This release marks the end-of-life of the 1.7.x product line.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/

The SeaMonkey project is an effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite" and is the codename for the Mozilla browser.

I'm not saying it is better/inferior to Firefox.. from what I've gathered.. it has what Firefox supports (internally, it uses the Gecko 1.8.x codebase) except their whole suite gets updated instead of one component and then there's the interface... Again, tell me how this is significantly different?

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:55 pm

I think our difference is you're viewing it more generally than I am.

I made my statement under the point that SeaMonkey is a derivative of Mozilla Suit rather than a direct continuation of it. There are differences and it shouldn't be written off as just another Mozilla Suit version.

It seems you're just saying generally, it's Mozilla which yeah, it is. But, so is Firefox, and I think that has made enough changes that it starts to stand on it's own these days rather than just a modified Mozilla Suit browser. i view SeaMonkey as a similar.

An arguement of semantics I guess. Let's shake and move on.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:27 am

That's fine. If Seamonkey was something more different than Firefox (like adding some feature and Firefox did not), it might just be worth looking at though.