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SeaMonkey - 2.0b1

Web browser, email, newsgroup, IRC, HTML editing.

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Selected Version:	2.0b1
Release Date:	2009-07-22
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 2.0b1):	1,391
Downloads (all versions):	67,895

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Product Description:

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.

What's new in this version:

SeaMonkey switched to Toolkit, the same backend Firefox uses internally. Due to this change SeaMonkey is now much closer to Firefox as far as user profiles, add-ons and functionality of user interface elements are concerned.
The default location of user profiles has changed. Legacy profiles, e.g. from SeaMonkey 1.x, are migrated automatically, excluding third-party add-ons (extensions and themes). The old profile will not be touched (instead, copies are made).
The new Add-on Manager allows to install, update, disable and remove extensions (add-ons), themes and plugins using the same mechanisms Firefox uses. This should ease extension management and development considerably.
Session restore (crash recovery) has been added. Now, when SeaMonkey crashes, all your browser windows and tabs will be restored automatically or on request (including data entered in web forms!). In addition, users can select to always restore the browser windows and tabs from their last open session when starting SeaMonkey.
History is now stored in a better database solution, so that it can easily keep more information, and the location bar determines which addresses to autocomplete and/or show in the drop down menu with a smarter algorithm based on what you type, searching in both URL and title of visited pages by default.
Toolbars in the browser and the main MailNews window are now fully customizable.
Additionally, the icon size and whether to display icons and/or text can be chosen separately for every major toolbar in in both the browser and MailNews components via their context menu.
The MailNews component now includes support for reading RSS and Atom feeds. The browser detects feeds offered by web pages, can preview them and offers different ways to subscribe to them. For subscribing to the feed in the MailNews component, an account for feeds needs to already be created there.
Password Manager was switched to an improved version, allowing easier searching, and notification bars replacing modal dialogs for remembering logins.
Download manager has been completely reworked, including support for cross-session resumable downloads,
Gecko, the rendering engine used in SeaMonkey, has seen many improvements since the version used in the last stable release. Changes range from a better graphics backend (Cairo/Thebes) to improved support for fonts, CSS, DOM and JavaScript. SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1 passes the Acid2 test and most of Acid3 and includes all the new web-facing features also included in Firefox 3.5, such as audio/video elements, downloadable fonts and JIT-compiled JavaScript.
Most of the icons in the default theme have been exchanged for newer images that fit better with the look of modern desktop environments.
Support for Windows 95, 98, Me and NT 4 was dropped. GTK 2.10 is now required on Linux/UNIX. Support for Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther") was also dropped.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.0b1/changes

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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passwords - Version: 2.0 RC 2, 10/23/2009 06:33AM PST

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i9natz1

there is no way of importing passwords from earlier versions of Seamonkey or even from Firefox!!!! Isn't this all Mozilla company. Somebody explain please.

Still no Home button - Version: 2.0b2, 9/14/2009 02:38PM PST

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i9natz1

and nevertheless having all the password information for all my sites, it doesnt fill the fields with them. Version 1.1.18 is still better.

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Still no Home button

Cookies - Version: 2.0b1, 7/29/2009 04:31PM PST