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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 blue1 »

BirAdam wrote: post #2

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

I have been using Seamonkey since when it was called Netscape, but there are so many sites that do not work with it that I been forced to switch to Firefox. I still use Seamonkey for my mail though, I prefer it to Thunderbird.

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by ashildr »

infotainment wrote: post #8

I love that this project exists, it’s amazing to be able to use a browser that is, in essence, unchanged from the early 2000s. I just wish there was a Mac ARM build…

Does it really make any difference for software like this whether it‘s running in emulation or native?

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by thewakalix »

Dalewyn wrote: post #20
azinman2 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

[flagged]

It's not even necessary for compression -- gzip is decent and transparent.

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by hulitu »

looopTools wrote: post #17

I really like the concept of SeaMonkey, but the project needs some major UI updates and way more love to be relevant today.

This definitely no. The reason i use it is the UI. Firefox, Chrome, Edge UI is a mess, a disgrace of UI design. I had to edit the user.css to get scrollbars at reasonable width.

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

#25

Post by integricho »

sharpshadow wrote: post #18

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…

Or those could be precisely the reasons that would kill it for good. Putting AI tech in every product is not a good idea, just riding the hypetrain.

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

#27

Post by kasabali »

ashildr wrote: post #22
infotainment wrote: post #8

I love that this project exists, it’s amazing to be able to use a browser that is, in essence, unchanged from the early 2000s. I just wish there was a Mac ARM build…

Does it really make any difference for software like this whether it‘s running in emulation or native?

It's built on a recent Firefox codebase so it'd be heavy

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by 1oooqooq »

looopTools wrote: post #16
qwerty456127 wrote: post #15

It would feal so great if whoever owns Netscape now could donate the trademark to Mozilla to use instead of SeaMonkey :-)

It is AOL EDIT: woops nope it is Yahoo now XD

it's Apollo group. a corporate raider from the 80s who now owns aol's and yahoo's empty shells.

Re: SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

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Post by Y_Y »

integricho wrote: post #25
sharpshadow wrote: post #18

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…

Or those could be precisely the reasons that would kill it for good. Putting AI tech in every product is not a good idea, just riding the hypetrain.

If you like the hypetrain just wait until Elon Musk's HypeLoop!
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