Seamonkey feels stable and fast, and it uses fewer resources on its own than when Firefox and Thunderbird are open at the same time.Īfter a few days of using Seamonkey, however, I decided to switch back to the Firefox/Thunderbird combo. Most of the features of the new browsers are available, including a spell-checker for online forms. Seamonkey 1.1 isn’t too far from the Firefox and Thunderbird experience. So where do things stand? Do fans of the combined Mozilla suite have an alternative to the stand alone browsers and e-mail clients? The first release of Seamonkey was a long time in coming, and somewhat buggy on my computer, but Seamonkey 1.1 worked well enough for me to try it over the course of a few days. Although there was a developing community of fans behind the release, it was dwarfed by the resources available to Firefox and Thunderbird.
#Mozilla seamonkey vs firefox full version#
Only recently have I tried downloading the beta version of Seamonkey 1.1 (the full version has just been released). However, for most of time since March 2005, I’ve been using Firefox and Thunderbird. Version 1.0 corresponds to Firefox and Thunderbird versions 1.5 and a beta version of 1.1 is Seamonkey’s equivalent to Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. The fan-produced suite was named Seamonkey, allowing fans of the combined suite to continue to get the latest and greatest of Mozilla’s development. There’s also the neat little browser sidebar, which allows me to access such content as CNN, so that the latest headlines are available at a glance while I continue my main browsing.įortunately, Mozilla continued to provide the base infrastructure to members of the development community, and fans stepped forward to continue to develop the combined suite through the same evolutionary processes that produced Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. It has a smaller memory footprint than when Firefox and Thunderbird are both open. Even though Firefox has since released its version 2.0 and Thunderbird’s 2.0 is now in beta, and even though both programs are wonderful, the combined Mozilla suite still appealed to me for a number of reasons. The combined nature of Mozilla’s suite had its fans, and those fans were upset at having to open up separate programs to browse and check their e-mail. Stand alone versions of the composer and the calendar followed.Ĭontroversy erupted on March 10, 2005, when Mozilla announced that it was discontinuing development support for its Mozilla suite and focusing on its stand-alone products.
Then Mozilla developed stand alone versions of its browser and its e-mail program, which it named Firefox and Thunderbird respectively. The first several versions were a combined program which contained a browser, an e-mail program, a web page composer and, with the installation of an add-on, a calendar. Mozilla began as an outgrowth of the old Netscape Internet suite. Between the switch to Apple, and the tireless work of the Mozilla open source community, I’ve had the pleasure of using Firefox to browse the Internet, and Thunderbird to check my e-mail.īut Mozilla is not perfect, and the development of its browsers have not been without controversy. I will admit that SeaMonkey users still may have to use "about:config" but mostly for obscure settings rarely changed from the default setting.I’m pleased to say that it has been over a year since I’ve had much to do with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. These sam settings can be accessed and changed using the preferences panel in SeaMonkey. To change some settings in FF/TB the end user has to go into uncharted territory and use "about:config" which is not very user friendly, especially for the less technically inclinded. It is an advantage to not require extensions for basic functionality and one major reason I use SeaMonkey.Īnother advatage, in my opinion, is that the preference items is more complete in SeaMonkey. Often when the application is updated conflicts are found with extensions as they do not always recieve testing with the updated application before release. To gain basic functionality with FireFox/ThunderBird the end user has to add various extensions. SeaMonkey in its vanilla form "out of the box" does not require extensions to be added to obtain "basic funtionallity.
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