SeaMonkey 1.1.10 Released

[masinick]

July 2, 2008
SeaMonkey 1.1.10 Released

Today, the SeaMonkey project released a new version of its all-in-one internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.10 closes several security vulnerabilities and fixes several smaller problems found in previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey stays at the same level of security as its sibling Firefox 2, which is issuing updates for the same problems this week as well.

The SeaMonkey team urges users of older SeaMonkey versions, including the SeaMonkey 1.0.x series, which no longer receives security updates, to upgrade. Additionally, the team continues to strongly urge people still using the old Mozilla Suite or Netscape 4, 6 or 7 to upgrade to the new SeaMonkey 1.1.10 version. All these older software packages suffer from a large and steadily increasing number of security vulnerabilities because they are no longer being maintained. SeaMonkey 1.1.10 is a modern, drop-in replacement, providing the same familiar suite functionality with additional features and fully up to date security.

SeaMonkey 1.1.10 is available for free download from the open source project's website at The SeaMonkey® Project.

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[masinick]

For those unfamiliar with Seamonkey. Mozilla had opened a 1.8 development branch at the time that Firefox and Thunderbird were released as stand alone browser and Email programs respectively. Many people did not want to stop using the original Mozilla suite. Some of them appealed to Mozilla to allow them to continue to maintain Mozilla, and arrangements were made. The 1.8 branch was called Seamonkey. Debian rebrands this same suite as Iceape (and calls Firefox Iceweasel and they call Thunderbird Icedove) each with their own icons and rebranding.

Seamonkey and Iceape are among the most mature of the group of Internet based products. They were first rewritten as part of a complete overhaul of the old Netscape suite. For a couple of years that code was awful, but it matured into the Mozilla 1.0 series, which ended at 1.7.12 or thereabouts. Seamonkey picked up from there, using the 1.8 development branch, and it continues to use the Gecko framework that is part of the underlying Mozilla infrastructure.

[techieMoe]

Hmmm, I haven't played with an all-in-one suite since probably the last release of Netscape Communicator, but I do have some fond memories of websites I made in Composer.

Does anyone on the forum use Seamonkey regularly? What do you think of it?

[geniuz]

When I had debian installed on my desktop PC, I always used Iceape...and if I reckon right that's seamonkey clone or something ?

I can say I liked it very much, in my opinion it's faster then iceweasel or firefox...
Opera beats all in speed to be honest :/

[cousinlucky]

What I like about Mozilla ( SeaMonkey ) is that a user can set up different profiles with different bookmarks. What I do not like about it is all the clicks a user has to make to delete the cookies. It is also the only browser on my machine using the flash player.

Since I had to delete the new Opera browser; Mozilla and Konqueror are the two I now mostly use.

[elija]

I always liked Seamonkey, but I now use Evolution for email and find that I miss my Firefox Extensions

[deltaflyer]

been using Seamonkey since it came out, used the older mozilla suite as well. it's just more comfortable for me & uses less resources than stand-alone apps

[masinick]

When I had debian installed on my desktop PC, I always used Iceape...and if I reckon right that's seamonkey clone or something ?

I can say I liked it very much, in my opinion it's faster then iceweasel or firefox...
Opera beats all in speed to be honest :/

Debian was the first to rebrand Iceape; a few others also now use that name. The software is Seamonkey, the logos, icons, and documentation say "Iceape" instead of "Seamonkey" because of the way that Seamonkey licenses. Seamonkey can be freely used, but if it is changed in any way, it cannot bear the Seamonkey name. Same goes with Firefox and Thunderbird and any other Mozilla branded product.

I have gone back to using Seamonkey and Iceape instead of Firefox and Thunderbird. I find the suite to be just as fast, possibly faster, less prone to memory leak defects, where the Seamonkey effort has spent a lot of focus.

On my sidux desktop (Debian Sid based) Iceape has a virtual size and real size of 171460 and 62168 with two tabs open, so those numbers look lower to me than Firefox.

If I open a fresh Firefox with the new 3.0 code (actually Iceweasel), it comes up at first with lower memory usage, but after only a few moments, it exceeds the size of an Iceape that I have had up for much longer, and uses more virtual memory, 199500 55628, though the numbers are not that much different. As far as "disk scratching" noises, I heard more activity as soon as I brought Iceweasel up, and that has continued. At the very least, they are in the same ballpark.

My Iceape instance is not yet updated to 1.1.10, which has further improvements, so this test may not even be fair to Iceape. Anyway, based on every day experience, I would claim that Iceape (or Seamonkey) is somewhat more optimized. It runs like Mozilla used to, only more stable, never crashes. I think it is worth using, at least that is my personal opinion.

UPDATE: I ran Iceweasel with one more tab and jacked the memory usage up. To be more than fair, I did the same with Iceape. But I even closed the extra tab in Iceweasel, but kept it open in Iceape. The results now speak clearly: Iceape, once open a while, uses memory more efficiently: 163596 62644, versus 194540 63904 for Iceweasel. Not too bad for either one, but I'm sticking with Iceape.