However, I was unable to import mail or addresses from Outlook in three attempts. You can import mail and address books from other Messenger clients, as well as from Eudora, Outlook, and Outlook Express. The program adds a phishing-detection tool in the new release, and it lets you view and access mail from several different accounts in a single inbox. Likewise, the SeaMonkey Messenger e-mail program bears a striking resemblance to its Mozilla and Netscape Messenger predecessors. Two interface changes of note: When you have multiple tabbed pages open, you can now drag and drop tabs to rearrange them, and when you open an image in a new window, the tab shows a thumbnail of the image. The SeaMonkey Council claims that it's focused on "back-end changes that improve security, stability, and performance" in this release.
However, one look at an average PC's overcrowded system tray indicates that few people will object to having yet another idle app nibbling at their CPU cycles.Ĭurrent Mozilla/Netscape browser users may look long and hard before they notice any changes in SeaMonkey Navigator, apart from the blue SeaMonkey icon in the top-right corner of the browser. Of course, it also means the program is using some system resources even when it's not open. The installer also gives you the option of placing a SeaMonkey icon in your Quick Launch toolbar, which it claims will allow for "faster startup times when possible."Ĭhecking this option places the program's bluebird icon in both the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray, which is what the developers mean by faster start-ups. The whole enchilada gets you the Navigator browser, the Messenger e-mail client (aka "Mail & Newsgroups"), Spellchecker, and the ChatZilla chat program, as well as a Javascript debugger, a Document Object Model (DOM) inspector, and other Web development tools.
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After all, the trend has long been toward modular Internet tools and away from a browser integrated with e-mail, chat, and other Web tools.ĭefying convention, a group of volunteer developers has revived the former Mozilla suite to createSeaMonkey, a free program that combines the Mozilla Navigator browser with an enhanced version of the Netscape Messenger e-mail client, the ChatZilla IRC (Internet Relay Chat) program, and an HTML editor and other tools for Web developers.ĭuring installation, you're asked if you want to add only browser components or the complete SeaMonkey suite you can also choose which tools are installed via the Custom option. The Mozilla Foundation's announcement in 2003 that it would focus on the Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client seemed to signal the end of the Mozilla Application Suite.
Just when browsers and other Internet tools focus on getting small and specialized, along comes the SeaMonkey Internet Suite that harkens back to the Net's early days by building atop the vestiges of the old Netscape suite of Web tools. — - My hat is off to anyone who goes against the trend.
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