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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 [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] client ([[ChatZilla]]). The software suite supports skins. It comes with two skins in the default installation, Modern and Classic.<ref name="softp">{{cite web |url=http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/mac/SeaMonkey-Review-42640.shtml |title=SeaMonkey Review: Web Browsing and a Little More |author=Codrut Nistor |accessdate=January 30, 2010 |date=December 18, 2006 |work=[[Softpedia]] |publisher= }}</ref> |
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 [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] client ([[ChatZilla]]). The software suite supports skins. It comes with two skins in the default installation, Modern and Classic.<ref name="softp">{{cite web |url=http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/mac/SeaMonkey-Review-42640.shtml |title=SeaMonkey Review: Web Browsing and a Little More |author=Codrut Nistor |accessdate=January 30, 2010 |date=December 18, 2006 |work=[[Softpedia]] |publisher= }}</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:37, 23 March 2011
Developer(s) | SeaMonkey Council |
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Initial release | January 30, 2006 |
Stable release | 2.53.10.2 (December 28, 2021[1]) [±] |
Preview release | 2.53.18 Beta 1 (November 25, 2023[2]) [±] |
Repository | |
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]
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.
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 (but with lowercase m) 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[4] 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.[5] 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.
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 it 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.
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.
The first version of SeaMonkey, 1.0 Alpha, was released on September 15, 2005,[6] followed by SeaMonkey 1.0 stable released on January 30, 2006. The release of SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 2 on December 10, 2008, scored 93/100 on the Acid 3 test.
Release history
Parts of this table are based on the SeaMonkey release notes, the roadmap and the meeting notes.
- Old release
- Current release
- Future release
Gecko Branch | Version | Release date | Significant changes |
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1.8 | 1.0 Alpha | September 15, 2005 | |
1.0 Beta | December 19, 2005 | ||
1.8.0 | 1.0 | January 30, 2006 | Official Version 1.0 release. |
1.0.1 | April 13, 2006 | Security updates and native support for Intel-based Macintosh computers, via Universal Binary. | |
1.0.2 | June 1, 2006 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.0.3 | July 27, 2006 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.0.4 | August 2, 2006 | Small fix for a regression with the Microsoft Media Server protocol in 1.0.3. | |
1.0.5 | September 14, 2006 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.0.6 | November 8, 2006 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.0.7 | December 20, 2006 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.0.8 | February 27, 2007 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.0.9 | May 30, 2007 | Stability improvement and security fixes. Marks the end of life for SeaMonkey 1.0.x series. | |
1.8.1 | 1.1 Alpha | August 30, 2006 | Major feature work |
1.1 Beta | November 8, 2006 | ||
1.1 | January 18, 2007 | Official Version 1.1 release. | |
1.1.1 | February 28, 2007 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.2 | May 30, 2007 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.3 | July 19, 2007 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.4 | August 3, 2007 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.5 | October 19, 2007 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.6 | November 5, 2007 | Several small problems in displaying certain web pages corrected | |
1.1.7 | November 30, 2007 | Stability improvement and security fixes. Problem with running SeaMonkey from read-only application directories corrected. | |
1.1.8 | February 7, 2008 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.9 | March 25, 2008 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.10 | July 2, 2008 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.11 | July 15, 2008 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.12 | September 23, 2008 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.13 | November 12, 2008 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.14 | December 16, 2008 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.15 | March 18, 2009 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.16 | April 8, 2009 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.17 | June 22, 2009 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.18 | September 3, 2009 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
1.1.19 | March 16, 2010 | Stability improvement and security fixes. End-of-life of 1.1.x product line. | |
1.9.1 | 2.0 Alpha 1 | October 5, 2008 | Toolkit transition and major feature work |
2.0 Alpha 2 | December 10, 2008 | Toolkit transition and major feature work | |
2.0 Alpha 3 | March 3, 2009 | Toolkit transition and major feature work | |
2.0 Beta 1 | July 21, 2009 | Follows Gecko 1.9.1.1 stable release, major feature work | |
2.0 Beta 2 | September 12, 2009 | major feature work | |
2.0 RC 1 | October 10, 2009 | first release candidate | |
2.0 RC 2 | October 19, 2009 | second release candidate | |
2.0 | October 27, 2009 | Official Version 2.0 release. | |
2.0.1 | December 15, 2009 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
2.0.2 | January 11, 2010 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
2.0.3 | February 17, 2010 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
2.0.4 | March 30, 2010 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
2.0.5 | June 22, 2010 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
2.0.6 | July 20, 2010 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
2.0.7 | September 7, 2010 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
2.0.8 | September 15, 2010 | Stability improvements only. | |
2.0.9 | October 20, 2010 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
2.0.10 | October 28, 2010 | Security fix. | |
2.0.11 | December 9, 2010 | Stability improvement and security fixes. | |
2.0.12 | March 2, 2011 | Security fix. | |
1.9.3 | 2.1 Alpha 1 | May 18, 2010 | feature work |
2.1 Alpha 2 | July 7, 2010 | new addons manager, feature work | |
2.0 | 2.1 Alpha 3 | August 24, 2010 | Third alpha release |
2.1 Beta 1 | October 20, 2010 | First beta release | |
2.1 Beta 2 | February 14, 2011 | Second beta release |
Components
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 software suite supports skins. It comes with two skins in the default installation, Modern and Classic.[7]
Mail features includes support for multiple accounts, junk mail detection, message filters, HTML message support, a dictionary, an address book, customizable labels , add-ons and mail views as well as integration with the rest of suite.
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 basic text formatting and styling, insertion of hyperlinks and images, and the creation of tables. It does not support the addition of form elements (text fields, check boxes, and buttons). SeaMonkey Composer is scheduled to be updated with the release of KompoZer 0.8 which is currently under development.
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, AIX and BeOS/magnussoft ZETA.
Reception
A PC World review by Dennis O'Reilly described Seamonkey version 1.0 as easy to use, except for ChatZilla.[8] The reviewer found the program buggy and gave it 3.5 stars out of 5. A Softpedia review thought the software suite version 1.0 was both easy to use and feature packed. Nistor rated the program 4 out of 5 stars.[7]
See also
- Browser timeline
- Comparison of e-mail clients
- Comparison of feed aggregators
- Comparison of HTML editors
- Comparison of IRC clients
- Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
- Comparison of web browsers
- List of Firefox extensions
- List of HTML editors
- List of IRC clients
- List of Usenet newsreaders
- List of web browsers
- Mozilla Composer
- Java Embedding Plugin
Notes
- ^ "SeaMonkey 2.53.10.2 released". 2021-12-28. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ^ "SeaMonkey 2.53.18 Beta 1". SeaMonkey Project. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
- ^ Mozilla.org
- ^ SeaMonkey: Name And Version
- ^ Home of KaiRo: SeaMonkey trademarks registered!
- ^ SeaMonkey Download & Releases
- ^ a b Codrut Nistor (December 18, 2006). "SeaMonkey Review: Web Browsing and a Little More". Softpedia. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
- ^ Dennis O'Reilly (March 28, 2006). "SeaMonkey Offers Browser, E-Mail, and Chat". PC World. PCWorld Communications, Inc. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
References
- Mozilla Foundation (March 10, 2005). Mozilla Application Suite - Transition Plan. Retrieved March 10, 2005.
- MozillaZine (June 6, 2005). Community Mozilla Application Suite Project Not Renamed Yet. Retrieved June 6, 2005.
- Adot's Notblog (June 6, 2005). It's not a renaming and it's not official. Retrieved June 20, 2005.
- SeaMonkey Council (July 2, 2005). SeaMonkey Project Continues Internet Suite. Retrieved July 3, 2005.