The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey 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 with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.
SeaMonkey has been around for a while, and I’m sure many of you are familiar with it. It’s effectively a modern continuation of the more classic Mozilla browser, the Mozilla Application Suite, which also included a news reader, email client, and so on. Not exactly the kind of thing most people want to use today, but there must still be a place for it in today’s era.
That being said, the project just released its latest new version, 2.53.1, so I figured I’d highlight it here.
Ahh this takes me back. I was always a die-hard IE resister and I used and told everyone else to use the Mozilla suite until around the time Firefox 3 took off, as it was really a lot more stable and had more features than IE at the time. With a theme like this one anyone can still relive the glory days 🙂
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/addon/classic-default/
There’s definitely a place for this, and I’m really glad they’re still continuing with the project. People who still use dedicated desktop mail clients are a loyal, unchanging breed of luddites. I used to use Seamonkey around 15 years ago on a then-old IBM Thinkpad with 128MB of RAM, and it would swap like crazy when running Firefox and Thunderbird at the same time. So I like the efficiency of Seamonkey, and it’s still my plan B if anything ever goes south with Thunderbird.
rahim123,
I also worry about thunderbird’s ability to survive independently outside of mozilla. I did a brief assessment of thunderbird alternatives last year, and while many packages cover the basic email needs, I didn’t find anything that completely covered my needs, I use caldav for calendar synchronization in particular and I didn’t find another client with full read/write support. Despite some bugs and issues that have been open for decades, for me thunderbird remains the best choice.
Can you explain why seamonky is better than just having firefox and thunderbird? Do they really use more memory than seamonkey?
It sounds like thunderbird is their upstream, so thunderbird dies and I think seamonkey is just as dead.
Hopefully the next version will be compatible with Firefox extensions so I can use PrivacyBadger, Bitwarden, etc. I use a handful of them and I rely on them heavily.