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Every saturday I go to the Suse mirror for an update of my Suse 10 os. Today after the update my mozilla browser morphed into the SeaMonkey browser. Does anyone ...
  1. 01-13-2007 #1
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    Mozilla to SeaMonkey

    Every saturday I go to the Suse mirror for an update of my Suse 10 os. Today after the update my mozilla browser morphed into the SeaMonkey browser. Does anyone know why this change was instituted?
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    That's just what it's called now! The Mozilla Suite no longer exists, it was renamed to SeaMonkey. Read:
    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
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    The Mozilla developers needed a good destiction between simple Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla (wich is the suite). So it was decided that the Mozilla internet suite would be renamed to Seamonkey.
    Don't ask me why the hell the chose that name. Wikipedia says its a species of brine shrimp....
    Seamonkey is one more app that has joined my "i-have-no-idea-why-they-gave-it-that-name" list
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    Quote Originally Posted by easuter
    The Mozilla developers needed a good destiction between simple Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla (wich is the suite).
    Not quite. The Mozilla Foundation decided to focus on Firefox and Thunderbird and thus were going to cease development on the old Mozilla suite. With that said, some developers didn't want this to happen so they continued its development under a new name. Read the history paragraph here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey

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    *EDIT* Upon closer inspection, it may appear as if you are on to something. There was talk about continuing the old name but they didn't because the Mozilla Foundation wanted to distance the project from theirs. (same link as above, under Naming).
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    Quote Originally Posted by easuter
    The Mozilla developers needed a good destiction between simple Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla (wich is the suite). So it was decided that the Mozilla internet suite would be renamed to Seamonkey.
    Don't ask me why the hell the chose that name. Wikipedia says its a species of brine shrimp....
    Seamonkey is one more app that has joined my "i-have-no-idea-why-they-gave-it-that-name" list
    I've noticed in the Open Source world, they're less formal and more creative about naming things. I visited DistroWatch earlier and was amused to see Lunar-Linux 1.6.1-rc2 is code named 'Moose Drool'.
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    Unhappily I just found out that I can not reply to Email using SeaMonkey the way I did when it was Mozilla. I have the same problem with my Yahoo account if i am using the Konqueror browser. Ah the aggravation just continues.
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    I installed seamonkey a while back because it had a cool name. It's done a good job for most part handling mail, and has a 'netscape' feel for browsing the web, but there is nothing that particularly stands out imo- firefox and thunderbird would do just as well.
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    but there is nothing that particularly stands out imo- firefox and thunderbird would do just as well.
    Seamonkey loads only one instance of the Gecko engine for all the open windows (browser/email client).
    Firefox/Thunderbird loads a new instance for every new window, so it is a bit heavier on resources.
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    Seamonkey loads only one instance of the Gecko engine for all the open windows (browser/email client).
    Firefox/Thunderbird loads a new instance for every new window, so it is a bit heavier on resources.
    that is something nice about seamonkey
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