![]() One of the things AOL pressured Mozilla to do was create a “theming engine” that had performance problems on everything it ran on, especially the “Modern” theme (which Netscape made their default), and especially on Windows, where the majority of reviewers would be evaluating it. Honestly, it’s the ugliest operating system of its time in any decade, but that’s an aside. Microsoft Windows, especially in the 1990s, was really really ugly to look at. This, only to get booed in the tech media as a “bloated program that crashes all the time”. Meanwhile, AOL made a series of unforced errors, including pressuring Mozilla to declare something “stable” and then finally giving up and basing Netscape “6” on something that was clearly not ready for average users and throwing a multi-million dollar advertising budget behind it. We knew that “Mozilla” was a fully functional browser sans AOL crap, so why use something from AOL? End users should go to Netscape.” warning. The “done thing” by people like me was to just grab a new nightly build and install it every once in a while manually to get at the latest new features in “Mozilla” as the Suite was commonly referred to, happily ignoring the “This is just for testing. (Which seemed to be their only concrete business plan for anything they took over, including another of my favorite programs, Winamp.) This is because many people, myself included, saw no point at all in using Netscape’s version of “Mozilla Suite” (SeaMonkey’s original name) and started following Mozilla Suite instead, because the browser was open source, highly Web Standards compliant, and packed full of features.ĪOL turned these releases into “Netscape 6/7” by adding proprietary software (useless) and a bunch of garbage bookmarks to shopping sites, and having their setup program put icons for “Free AOL Trial” on your desktop. (It was not on solid footing following Microsoft’s attack on the original company, which is what made AOL decide to buy it out as a distressed asset.) It was also SeaMonkey that caused AOL’s iteration of Netscape Corporation to go ahead and collapse. ![]() Ironically, it was Firefox that was forked from SeaMonkey. The program is based on a forked version of the Gecko Web engine that Firefox uses. I installed version 2.53.13 as packaged in Fedora GNU/Linux 36. T he SeaMonkey Web Browser and Internet Suite (Web page editor, Mail and News client, and ChatZilla for IRC) is still producing releases. Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission from the original Posted in Free/Libre Software, Standard at 5:32 pm by Guest Editorial Team However, if you prefer to customize your web browser to your liking or want access to the email suite and development tools to run on a low-end system, SeaMonkey can be a good choice.07.23.22 Gemini version available ♊︎ The SeaMonkey Internet Suite is Still Developed. The UI looks dated and resembles nothing like the modern age web browsers. Finding the basic functions such as opening a new tab may require you to refer to browser documentation. That said, as a standalone browser, SeaMonkey is not the most intuitive app to use. ![]() It also has a built-in HTML editor, IRC Chat support and web development tools to debug and inspect web pages. It is available on Windows, Linux and macOS platforms.Īpart from the usual web browser features, it comes with mail and newsgroups functions, including tabbed mail, junk mail control and multiple account management. It is a community project based on the Mozilla Application Suite that aims to cater to the needs of advanced users and web developers. ![]() SeaMonkey is different from other web browsers in this list.
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