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SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by Worldblender »

infotainment wrote: post #10
BirAdam wrote: post #2

I love SeaMonkey, but I do wish it could handle more modern sites, maybe with Goanna?

Doesn’t it use the same engine as modern versions of Firefox?

It does use the same engine from Firefox, although not always the latest version. This project strives to backport security updates from newer Firefox versions whenever they can, sometimes being able to upgrade the base Firefox version, while keeping the legacy XUL based add-on support. This is actually one thing I like wtih Seamonkey, alongside its HTML editor (that which could see better support for CSS and Javascript/ECMAScript stuff) and GUI based image blocking.

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by judge2020 »

musicale wrote: post #4

It's nice to see a web browser with an integrated editor - a feature of the original WorldWideWeb browser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb

Not the exact same thing, but:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/de...

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by azinman2 »

j45 wrote: post #6
musicale wrote: post #4

It's nice to see a web browser with an integrated editor - a feature of the original WorldWideWeb browser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb

It’s a great way to get readers and consumers to become writers and creators

Except now it’s not, really. Squarespace, blogs, even Twitter is a far better set of tools that are much easier, handle hosting and distribution etc.

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by hales »

nullhole wrote: post #7

I stuck around using it for longer than I probably should have. The integrated chat and mail clients were useful. The HTML editor not so much, and didn't appear to get much attention. One of the main things I miss is the LCARSTrek theme by KaiRo. Unlike any other LCARS browser theme, I found it to be usable on a day to day basis. Sadly it isn't available for Firefox. https://www.kairo.at/download/mozskins

I also miss using both Seamonkey and themes :( I wasn't a fan of LCARs, but Earlyblue was great.

> The HTML editor not so much, and didn't appear to get much attention.

I found it useful. Firefox's inbuilt HTML editor features are worse, they don't have floating table editing. Nowadays I use Thunderbird to write HTML whenever I don't want to do it by hand, almost the same thing.

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by sharpshadow »

It seems like a lot of Firefox addons are not longer compatible with Seamonkey after Firefox changed their addon functionality and Seamonkey is still using a old Firefox version. The old addon system was more powerful so I guess they kept it also for backwards compatibility of existing addons. But now the new addons won’t work and the old ones are old and probably not longer maintained.

Usually all email clients have a good web version nowadays which make the integrated email less interesting.

To make this project live again it would need to break backwards compatibility and adjust to the Firefox release cycle.

Overall it would be a good candidate to integrate with AI.

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by Dalewyn »

azinman2 wrote: post #13
j45 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a great way to get readers and consumers to become writers and creators

Except now it’s not, really. Squarespace, blogs, even Twitter is a far better set of tools that are much easier, handle hosting and distribution etc.

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