October 28, 2009 - 8:09 pm
Fans of the classic Mozilla Internet Suite rejoice. A major update to SeaMonkey has been released featuring a large number of significant improvements. Here are a few of them:
- Crash recovery: if SeaMonkey crashes, your previous session is restored
- Window restore, go to File/Recenty Closed Windows to restore a closed window
- Customizable toolbars, right click on the toolbars and select Customize… to add and remove buttons.
- Cross session resumable downloads
- Support for RSS and Atom web feeds in the Mail/News module
- Emails open in new tabs instead of new windows for better organized email reading
- Redone download, forms and password managers
- An updated theme on Mac OS X
SeaMonkey 2 is available in 18 locales for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Get it from the SeaMonkey project web site.
July 21, 2009 - 11:34 pm
The SeaMonkey project has released SeaMonkey 2 Beta 1, a significantly improved SeaMonkey Internet Suite, on its ways to its second major release.
Starting with a new theme, there’s a lot of great new features for SeaMonkey users. Most notably it gets all the improvements of the last two releases of the Gecko rendering engine with access to native audio and video and a cool list of newly supported web standards users can better appreciate at hacks.mozilla.org.
July 5, 2008 - 1:01 pm
Firefox 3 introduces support for web-based protocol handling so instead of a desktop application taking care of irc:, im:, ftp:, mailto: and other protocol link, these addresses are passed to a defined web service provided that it is capable of parsing and processing them.
Firefox 3 ships with Yahoo! Mail and 30Boxes as bundled web protocol handlers (for email and calendars respectively) but you can easily add more as they become available.
Google for example added the necessary interface too short before the Firefox 3 release so it wasn’t included by default but you can change that.
First, you will have to enable registration of protocol web handlers from different domains.
- Enter about:config in the location bar and press Enter to access the advanced preferences.
- Look for gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost and double click it to set it to true.
Now click in the link below to add Gmail as a mailto: links handler.
Add Gmail as a mailto handler
March 26, 2008 - 10:15 am
The SeaMonkey project has released an update to its namesake Internet applications suite, SeaMonkey 1.1.9. Similar to yesterday’s Firefox 2.0.0.13, this update fixes six security vulnerabilities, two of them labeled as critical.
February 8, 2008 - 10:22 am
The SeaMonkey project has released SeaMonkey 1.1.8, an update that fixes seven security vulnerabilities, including three rated as critical, one high, one moderate and two low, including the unauthorized directory traversal due to a bug in the chrome protocol handling.
November 30, 2007 - 11:40 pm
The SeaMonkey project has updated the SeaMonkey Internet suite to patch three security vulnerabilities including one that could allow a cross site scripting attack by exploiting a jar:// protocol weakness.
The fixes are similar to the ones included in Firefox 2.0.0.10 released aeralier ths weekland doesn’t include the <canvas> regression.
Visit the SeaMonkey project site to get the latest version.
November 7, 2007 - 9:21 am
The SeaMonkey team has released an update with patches that fixes some regressions found in the previous update, 1.1.5.
Get it at the SeaMonkey project web site. Available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
October 26, 2007 - 12:00 am
Robert Kaiser, SeaMonkey lead developer posted a proposal of goals for SeaMonkey 2, the next major update to the integrated Mozilla-based Internet suite.
Among the most notable changes suggested is improving SeaMonkey extensibility, toolbar customization and a visual refresh for better integration with the operating systems.
July 17, 2007 - 10:35 am
Adobe has released an update for Adobe Flash Player 9 plugin for all Gecko-based browsers: Firefox, Netscape, SeaMonkey, Flock, Camino, etc.
While there is no documentation on what’s new on this update, it’s always advisable to stay on top and avoid incompatibilities the update may already fix.
May 31, 2007 - 9:21 am
Following the Firefox updates, the SeaMonkey project has released SeaMonkey 1.1.2, a security and stability update for the Mozilla suite.
Just like the latest Firefox 1.5.0.12 and 2.0.0.4 updates, this one addresses 5 security vulnerabilities, 1 of them labeled as critical. Users are strongly encouraged to update as soon as possible. This release also fixes some incompatibilties presented by web sites using Backbase, an Ajax library.
To get the update, visit the SeaMonkey project web site and download the latest version.
