Mozilla Application Suite is back as SeaMonkey 1.0

By Mozilla Links

For long time Mozilla Application Suite’s fans content, the SeaMonkey council announced yesterday the release of SeaMonkey 1.0, the direct descendant of the venerable Netscape for Windows, MacOS X and Linux platforms.

Last year the Mozilla Foundation announced that it would drop the development of the Mozilla Application Suite (code name SeaMonkey), to focus on its core products Firefox, Thunderbird and Camino, but would provide required support . In a true example of an open source project a group of developers gathered and started a project devoted to continue the suite development. After selecting a name for the new project, a new logo and a round of alpha and beta releases, time for a first public release has finally come.

As the original Mozilla Application Suite it includes a web browser, an e-mail client, and IRC (chat) client, address book and web page editor, all of which has been improved since the last Mozilla 1.7.12.

This new release features:

  • Tabs can now be rearranged by dragging and dropping them.
  • When you close a tab, the browser will select the tab which you last selected if you have not selected or opened any other tabs since the current tab was opened and you have the “Switch to new tabs opened from links” preference enabled. This enhancement is also coming to Firefox 2.0
  • SVG support
  • auto save draft messages
  • select flagged messages
  • make the Return key start a new paragraph when composing
  • The Chatzilla menu item now appears in the correct place even if you don’t install Mail

For a complete list check: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/seamonkey1.0/README.html

Congratulations to the SeaMonkey team on their first release!

Posted on January 31, 2006 - 8:19 am || More on News, SeaMonkey

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