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SeaMonkey 1.0/1.0.1 installed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Wed Apr 19 03:24:07 2006
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:24:00 -0400
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@mit.edu, cfyi@mit.edu
I've installed SeaMonkey 1.0.1 for Linux and SeaMonkey 1.0 for Solaris
in to the SeaMonkey locker. From the SeaMonkey web page
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/):
The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver
production-quality releases of code derived from the application
formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite". Whereas the main focus of
the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird,
our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have
"everything but the kitchen sink" — and have it stable enough for
corporate use.
To run SeaMonkey:
add seamonkey
seamonkey &
There is currently no contributed build for Solaris for SeaMonkey 1.0.1,
so the Solaris version installed is still 1.0. (Note that SeaMonkey 1.0
contains some security vulnerabilities, described at
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/alerts/SA06-107A.html)
Configuring plugins for Solaris seems to crash the browser, so the
Solaris install has no plugins available. For Linux, the Java, Flash,
RealPlayer, Adobe Reader, and mplayer plugins are available.
The Adblock extension is available on both platforms.
New features since Mozilla 1.7 are available at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/seamonkey1.0/README.html.
Of note are:
# Tabs can now be rearranged by dragging and dropping them.
# Blazingly fast back - this feature allows much faster session history
navigation.
# Power users can set preferences that force links that would open new
windows into tabs.
Also, when sending mail from SeaMonkey mail, when the Cyrus bug
described at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123063 is
triggered, SeaMonkey (unlike Mozilla) will time out after a minute or
so, and the message will successfully be sent and copied to the Sent
folder. The workaround specified in comment 33 of that bug (going
offline and then online again) also works, though it did not seem to in
Mozilla.
Bug reports with the Athena install of SeaMonkey should go to seamonkey
[at] mit.edu. For future updates, add yourself to the seamonkey-users
moira list.
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
