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[SaintSatinStain]

I am a veteran user of Firefox and Thunderbird, but I tried SeaMonkey during its 1.xx days.  It was not ready for the home user; it was the bomb to geeks.

version 2.0.2 is ready! I do not work for Mozilla. I am at best a geek pretender. I know a little more about computers and applications than most of my kin, kith, and friends because I'm nosy. I am self taught by online forums, classes, the help of more knowledgeable folk, and experimentation.

SeaMonkey 2.0.2 is browser, e-mail and newsgroups, address book,chat, and html composer in one application. It has built in tabbed browsing, add-on manager, feed detection, popup blocker, find as you type, cookie manager, image manager, tabbed mail, junk mail control. It has a few extensions on its site, but some of Firefox's extensions are compatible. Flock can use some of Firefox's extensions too. It is easy to install and uninstall extensions in SeaMonkey now.

These are the extensions that I use, many from the Firefox extension site: BetterPrivacy (controls Flash cookies), Cert Viewer Plus (for my Verisign e-mail certs), Chatzilla (comes with), DOM Inspector (ditto), JavaScript Debugger (ditto), Newsfox(rss.atom), NoScript, ScribeFire (blog editor), Session Manager, and WOT. Built in or add-on it has basically the features that Firefox 3.6, Flock 2.5.6, and K-Meleon 1.5.3 (although K-Meleon uses a different extension system). SeaMonkey formerly used CS Lite or Cookie Safe, but I believe and like the cookie manager built in. Firefox, Flock, and K-Meleon should have strong built in cookie managers.

I like the Gecko browsers: SeaMonkey, Firefox, K-Meleon, and Flock. But I also use Chrome and IE 8. I use multiple browsers that allow multiple home pages. I use them as internet file cabinets; each has home pages corresponding to resources for research, except for K-Meleon (it opens from the dictionary button in my word processor, Jarte Plus, to the American Heritage Dictionary online.  

An aside: Jarte is my favorite word processor; it is for writers, folk with home office, and ordinary end user. It has a free version that is right for most people. My second favorite word processor is Rough Draft. Word, and the word processor in OpenOffice, have features that most end users do not want or need. Both Jarte and Rough Draft require a printer or virtual printer installed. Jarte and the browsers have links to music, history, art, et cetera sites.

These are the home pages for my browsers:

 SeaMonkey:
http://bluestbluets.spaces.live.com/          http://www.leftinalabama.com/diary            http://saintsatinstain.blogspot.com/          http://home.comcast.net/~xyxx1/site/?/blog/   

Mozilla Firefox:
http://www.fancast.com/comcast-tv-listings
http://www.inbox.com/default.aspx?tbid=70001
http://my.yahoo.com/

K-Meleon - American Heritage Dictionary:
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/index.php

Flock:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home
http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user
http://twitter.com/
Flickr & YouTube streams

Google Chrome
http://www.ask.com/
http://www.bing.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://search.yahoo.com/

Microsoft Internet Explorer:
http://my.msn.com/default.aspx?mypg=1
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb469929.aspx
http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html

Of course, homepages are individual. Some folk look at how I have things arranged and believe it complicated. It simplifies because each browser, though share some core bookmarks, has bookmarks specific to several interests of mine.

SeaMonkey is the core of my office which consists of Buddi (budget and finance software), Foxit Reader, Jarte, PDF Creator, Say the Time, Calculator (Windows), Convert, FriedBabelfish, Mobysaurus Thesaurus, Sunbird, Times Reader(NYTimes daily), and WordWeb Pro (local dictionary).

SeaMonkey is ready, but I need multiple browsers.

SeaMonkey's mail handles my twelve e-mail addresses, several Comcast and RoadRunner (I have apt. in NYC), plus Yahoo, Inbox, Gmail, and Hotmail. I like that most of my important internet applications are in one application.

My aunt, 90 years old, has XP Pro SP3 with SeaMonkey; it's really convenient for her. She only has to open one internet application; although she only uses the browser, e-mail, and address book.

Try SeaMonkey. If you don't find the add-ons you need on the SeaMonkey site, go to the Firefox add-on site. If you don't like SeaMonkey there are Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.

SeaMonkey uses less ram that Thunderbird and Firefox combined.

Isn't SeaMonkey a cool name.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

[lead5alpha]

SeaMonkey now shares much of the same mozilla source code as Firefox & Thunderbird. The 2.0 versions seem to pass browser sniffing requirements of most websites.  An advantage is that it is a complete suite.  My favorite feature is composer which is a web page authoring application.  Add the TidyHtml Validator add-on and you can validate your web pages to W3C standards as you author them.

[SaintSatinStain]

Useful info about composer. I've been using KompoZer.  I am getting rid of KompoZer.  I had it installed before I installed SeaMonkey and just never thought about the duplication. 

I am annoyed by the page from Comcast telling me to upgrade. I want to go straight to the home page of Comcast without that detour.

Comcast supports Safari, a less secure browser, so why not SeaMonkey.  I have not detected any deficiency in rendering the pages.  As you stated SM shares much of the code as Firefox, Thunderbird, and Flock.

[Jim__]

Comcast's detection of Gecko is flawed. It looks for "Firefox" in the user agent string. If you edit the user agent sting and add Firefox, Comcast will think you are using Firefox.

You want to add "Firefox/3.6" to the user agent string.

One way to do this is add your own entry to the user agent string.

Enter about:config in the location bar.

Right click and create a new string. A popup box will open asking you to "Enter the preference name"

The preference name is of the form general.useragent.extra.sss where sss can be whatever you want.

Click OK. A second popup box with open asking you to entry the value of the sting.

Enter Firefox/3.6

Click OK

[SaintSatinStain]

Thanks. Dang it, I should have posted my complaint earlier. I have a habit of using apps outside the mainstream. I listed my security programs to a friend yesterday. He didn't recognize one of them. Of course he never goes outside the Semantec, Trend Micro, and McAfee triangle, perhaps add AVG and Avast! for his radicalism. He never heard of Flock, K-Meleon, and SeaMonkey. He knows about Firefox and Thunderbird.

My older relatives love SeaMonkey; they only browse a bit and e-mail. They only have to open one programs to do what they want to do. I use the internet as my home office. I have twelve e-mail addresses: two public ones, two private ones (one for kin, kith, and friends and one for gov and biz.), and the others for different interests, tech, art, music, et cetera. Multiple browsers give me multiple homepages of my interests. So you see why an internet app, SeaMonkey, is best as my default. I did stop using Flock; it uses too much ram and the gui is busy. 

Several of my friends have followed my lead; they didn't realize customize XP Pro to fit their needs.

My daily upkeep is automatic. SeaMonkey

[SaintSatinStain · Accepted solution]

SeaMonkey is up to version 2.11, a grown, beautiful lady with class.  Check it out.

[Queen-Evie]

I've been using SeaMonkey for years. Got it updated today.

[Again]

I thought Mozilla was dumping SeaMonkey?  When I had it I really liked it.  It was a whole suite, much like Netscape which is what it was based on.