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SeaMonkey

NASA's Earth page in SeaMonkey, running on Ubuntu
Developed by	SeaMonkey Council
Initial release	January 30, 2006 (2006-01-30)
Written in	C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Gecko
Available in	20 languages
Type	Internet suite
License	Mozilla tri-license
Website	SeaMonkey Project

SeaMonkey is a free, open source, and cross-platform Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code. SeaMonkey consists of a web browser (SeaMonkey Navigator), which is a descendant of the Netscape family, an e-mail and news client program (which shares code with Mozilla Thunderbird), an HTML editor (SeaMonkey Composer) and an IRC client (ChatZilla). The development of SeaMonkey is community-driven, in contrast to the Mozilla Application Suite, which until its last released version (1.7.13) was governed by the Mozilla Foundation. The new project-leading group is the SeaMonkey Council.

1 History
- 1.1 Release history
2 Naming
3 Portability
4 SeaMonkey Composer
5 See also
6 Notes
7 References

[edit] History

On 10 March 2005, the Mozilla Foundation announced that they would not release any further official versions of Mozilla Application Suite beyond 1.7.x, since they are now focused on the standalone applications Firefox and Thunderbird. However, the foundation emphasized that they would still provide infrastructure for community members who wished to continue development. In effect, this means that the suite will still continue to be developed, but now by the SeaMonkey Council instead of the Mozilla Foundation. SeaMonkey 1.0 was released on January 30, 2006. With the release of SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 2 on December 10, 2008 SeaMonkey scores 93/100 on the Acid 3 test. The SeaMonkey Council, which is the team responsible for project and release management, currently consists of Mark Banner, Christian Biesinger, Karsten Düsterloh, Robert Kaiser, Ian Neal, Neil Rashbrook, and Andrew Schultz.

[edit] Release history

Parts of this table are based on the release notes of SeaMonkey and the roadmap.

Old release	Current release	Future release

Gecko Branch	Version	Release date	Significant changes
1.8	1.0 Alpha	September 15, 2005
1.8	1.0 Beta	December 19, 2005
1.8.0	1.0	January 30, 2006	Official Version 1.0 release.
	1.0.1	April 13, 2006	Security updates and native support for Intel-based Macintosh computers, via Universal Binary.
	1.0.2	June 1, 2006	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.0.3	July 27, 2006	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.0.4	August 2, 2006	Small fix for a regression with the Microsoft Media Server protocol in 1.0.3.
	1.0.5	September 14, 2006	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.0.6	November 8, 2006	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.0.7	December 20, 2006	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.0.8	February 27, 2007	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.0.9	May 30, 2007	Stability improvement and security fixes. Marks the end of life for SeaMonkey 1.0.x series.
1.8.1	1.1 Alpha	August 30, 2006	Major feature work
	1.1 Beta	November 8, 2006	Major feature work
	1.1	January 18, 2007	Official Version 1.1 release.
	1.1.1	February 28, 2007	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.2	May 30, 2007	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.3	July 19, 2007	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.4	August 3, 2007	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.5	October 19, 2007	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.6	November 5, 2007	Several small problems in displaying certain web pages corrected^[1]
	1.1.7	November 30, 2007	Stability improvement and security fixes. Problem with running SeaMonkey from read-only application directories corrected.
	1.1.8	February 7, 2008	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.9	March 25, 2008	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.10	July 2, 2008	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.11	July 15, 2008	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.12	September 23, 2008	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.13	November 12, 2008	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.14	December 16, 2008	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.15	March 18, 2009	Stability improvement and security fixes.
	1.1.16	April 8, 2009	Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.9.1	2.0 Alpha 1	October 5, 2008	Toolkit transition and major feature work
	2.0 Alpha 2	December 10, 2008	Toolkit transition and major feature work
	2.0 Alpha 3	march 3, 2009	Toolkit transition and major feature work

[edit] Naming

Wikipedia's Main Page in SeaMonkey 1.0.2

To avoid confusing organizations that still want to use the original Mozilla Suite, the new product needed a new name. After initial speculation by members of the community, a July 2, 2005 announcement confirmed that SeaMonkey would officially become the name of the Internet suite superseding the Mozilla Suite. "SeaMonkey" was formerly used by Netscape and the Mozilla Foundation as a code name for the never-released "Netscape Communicator 5" and later the Mozilla Suite itself. Originally, the name derived from needing a nicer word instead of "ButtMonkey" winning a contest for it and chosen with reference to brine shrimp. The SeaMonkey Council has now trademarked the name with help from the Mozilla Foundation.^[2] The project uses a separate numbering scheme, with the first release being called SeaMonkey 1.0. Despite having a different name and version number, SeaMonkey 1.0 is based on the same code as Mozilla 1.8.

SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 1 being run on Windows, after being start up for the first time.

The new addons dialog for SeaMonkey 2.

[edit] Portability

SeaMonkey Running on Linux, showing a verse in The Book of Mozilla

The SeaMonkey project releases official builds for three operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Unofficial ports exist for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, IRIX, OS/2, Solaris and BeOS / magnussoft ZETA.

[edit] SeaMonkey Composer

SeaMonkey Composer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and part of the SeaMonkey Internet Suite. Its main user interface features four tabs: Normal (WYSIWYG), HTML tags, HTML code, and browser preview. The generated code is HTML 4.01 Transitional. As of version 1.1.13, SeaMonkey Composer supports insertion of the following HTML elements: