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SeaMonkey

NASA's Earth page in SeaMonkey, running on Ubuntu
Developer(s)	SeaMonkey Council
Initial release	January 30, 2006 (2006-01-30)
Stable release	2.53.10.2 (December 28, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-12-28)[1]) [±]
Preview release	2.53.18 Beta 1 (November 25, 2023; 7 months ago (2023-11-25)[2]) [±]
Repository	gitlab.com/seamonkey-project/seamonkey-2.53-mozilla
Written in	C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Gecko
Available in	20 languages
Type	Internet suite
License	Mozilla tri-license
Website	SeaMonkey Project

SeaMonkey is a free and open source cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code. Core Mozilla project source code is licensed under a disjunctive tri-license that gives the choice of one of the three following sets of licensing terms: Mozilla Public License, version 1.1 or later, GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later, GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later.^[3]

SeaMonkey consists of a web browser (SeaMonkey Navigator), which is a descendant of the Netscape family, an e-mail and news client program (SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, which shares code with Mozilla Thunderbird), an HTML editor (SeaMonkey Composer) and an IRC client (ChatZilla). The development of SeaMonkey is community-driven, in contrast to the Mozilla Application Suite, which until its last released version (1.7.13) was governed by the Mozilla Foundation. The new project-leading group is the SeaMonkey Council.

History

On March 10, 2005, the Mozilla Foundation announced that it would not release any official versions of Mozilla Application Suite beyond 1.7.x, since it had now focused on the standalone applications Firefox and Thunderbird. However, the Foundation emphasized that they would still provide infrastructure for community members who wished to continue development. In effect, this meant that the suite would still continue to be developed, but now by the SeaMonkey Council instead of the Mozilla Foundation. SeaMonkey 1.0 was released on January 30, 2006. With the release of SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 2 on December 10, 2008 SeaMonkey scores 93/100 on the Acid 3 test.

The SeaMonkey Council, which is the team responsible for project and release management, currently consists of Mark Banner, Christian Biesinger, Karsten Düsterloh, Robert Kaiser, Ian Neal, Neil Rashbrook, and Andrew Schultz.

Release history

Parts of this table are based on the release notes of SeaMonkey, the roadmap and the meeting notes.

•   Old release
•   Current release
•   Future release

Naming

To avoid confusing organizations that still want to use the original Mozilla Suite, the new product needed a new name. After initial speculation by members of the community, a July 2, 2005 announcement confirmed that SeaMonkey would officially become the name of the Internet suite superseding the Mozilla Suite.

"SeaMonkey" was formerly used by Netscape and the Mozilla Foundation as a code name for the never-released "Netscape Communicator 5" and later the Mozilla Suite itself. Originally, the name derived from needing a nicer word instead of "ButtMonkey" winning a contest for it and chosen with reference to brine shrimp. The SeaMonkey Council has now trademarked the name with help from the Mozilla Foundation.^[6] The project uses a separate numbering scheme, with the first release being called SeaMonkey 1.0. Despite having a different name and version number, SeaMonkey 1.0 is based on the same code as Mozilla 1.8.

Portability

The SeaMonkey project releases official builds for three operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Unofficial ports exist for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, IRIX, OS/2, Solaris, and BeOS/magnussoft ZETA.

SeaMonkey Composer

SeaMonkey Composer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and part of the SeaMonkey Internet Suite. Its main user interface features four tabs: Normal (WYSIWYG), HTML tags, HTML code, and browser preview. The generated code is HTML 4.01 Transitional.

As of version 1.1.13, SeaMonkey Composer supports insertion of the following HTML elements:

• table
• link
• image

The following elements cannot be added directly, but can be copy/pasted from existing HTML pages:

• form input elements (text fields, text areas, radio buttons, check boxes, combo boxes, list boxes, buttons)

See also

• List of web browsers
• List of news clients
• List of HTML editors
• List of IRC clients
• Comparison of web browsers
• Comparison of e-mail clients
• Comparison of HTML editors
• Comparison of IRC clients
• List of Firefox extensions
• Browser timeline
• Mozilla Composer
• Comparison of feed aggregators

Notes

References

External links

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