Still In Love With Sea Monkey

[Mel Thompson]

I first got into Seamonkey strictly as a Linux thing. Then later, when all my Mac browsers were getting a bit slow, even after emptying cashe and dumping the history and tossing all the cookies, I downloaded Seamonkey onto my Mac too. It's not as good with plugins and helper apps and all, sometimes, but when I need raw, clean, speed, (plus a great contacts program and cool on-board text editor), I just zip over to Seamonkey and let her rip. Back to Suse. The one thing was that Firefox was laboriously slow on this great Suse # 11 Distro. But this time Suse made it easy to install Seamonkey. And when I combined Suse and Sea Monkey, it made internet and email just a total joy.

[elija]

I too like Seamonkey but I am not using at the moment. I am trying out Opera as my browser (so far it seems pretty good) and I use evolution for mail etc.

But yeah, Seamonkey is fast, stable and not very frilly.

[Mel Thompson]

Let us know how this Opera version works for you. My machines are an average of four years old, so it may be that my hardware is a little behind the times. I struggled with Opera, but found it to have some beauty. But also, from what I read, Opera is a real "get it" thing. Somehow, once the interface "clicks" for people, they're hooked. And somehow I'm not yet "feeling" it enough to. But then again, I'm moody with computers, so God knows where I'll be after my next upgrade. It's funny, on my old Mac Mini, I find I need four browsers, no kidding. Camino does the best for daily stuff on Mac. It's more native-looking than the res, (I stole that line from another post). And Seamonkey is my sentimental favorite, but I can't in any way prove it's the best, except that it's fast and light, and when I want that, it seems to, in those ways, really rock. But then some sites insist on Firefox or Safari and won't accept the more exotic browsers, and so those are on my toolbar too. But, with all the days and years I'm wasting on the Internet, it seems only right that I should have more browser software than any other kind of software. (And I like the fact that they're all free!)

[elija]

Well, I'm back using Firefox. Opera is undeniably faster but it keeps locking up. It eventually recovers but hey I'll stick with something more reliable.

I would use Seamonkey but I'd miss my plugins

[Mel Thompson]

It's a darn shame that there's just not yet a version of Opera that quite cuts it because there is something very futuristic and magic about that concept. Maybe it's just all in the "not quite ready yet" category.

I noticed I finally got Neo Office to work on my PPC after several earlier versions failed. So, one thing I do is keep coming back around to these things after later versions appear.

I'm noticing that with open source stuff, it just takes them a long time to slowly add compatibility with hardware, backwards and forwards. But after a while, they seem to come around to figuring out what's missing.

[deltaflyer]

been using Seamonkey since it first replaced the old Mozilla suite.Always preferred it to stand-alone apps. As for plug-ins, all mine work with no problem,flash,adobe,jave et-al all work

[elija]

When I said plugins, I meant extensions... Web Developer Toolbar, code validator and the absolutely fantastic firebug.

[Mel Thompson]

As a post-script, I find it so ironic that Seamonkey works better and installs way easier on Mac than it does on Debian Linux. That being noted, the Iceweasel on Debian Linux is a stunning performer, and so it's all good. But still, Mozilla and the Debian community need to work something out. Ubuntuzilla, the installer that makes it easy to install Mozilla browsers, such as Seamonkey, Firefox, etc., is itself a total mess for ordinary users. God bless them for trying, but alas, they need to hammer out some understanding.

[bigtomrodney]

As I understand it Ubuntuzilla is a tool for upgrading to browser versions unsupported by your distro, i.e. upgrading from Firefox 2.0.x to 3.0 on an older release that doesn't have Firefox 3 packages.