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01 May 2012
Good attempt at an Internet suite, but perhaps only useful for those who really like Firefox and Thunderbird.
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Type: Free for personal use only
Platform: Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Manufacturer: Mozilla
Size: 10MB
Number of Downloads: 2631
Price: Free
Back in the 90’s, Internet Service Providers used to supply ‘all-in-one’ suites so that you had everything you needed to connect to the Internet. Indeed, Turnpike made a fortune selling their suite to Demon, when it was primarily made up from third-party applications (Mozilla, Eudora etc).
These all-in-one integrated Internet suites were designed to work with the Internet provider. It would be all pre-configured so that you install, select your local POP (a POP was a local phone number for dialup users), entered your supplied user name and password, and you’d find that you’d have a web browser, email client, chat application and dialup manager.
Mozilla SeaMonkey is an all-in-one Internet suite from the same guys that gave use Firefox and Thunderbird. Indeed, it contains the latest Firefox and Thunderbird, along with an IRC chat application and also Mozilla’s HTML editor for creating your own web pages.
The latest v2 has been rebuilt on top of the modern Mozilla platform that also powers Firefox 3.5 and improved with additional features, resulting in world-class add-on management, feed support, modern look, session restore, tabbed mail, smart location bar, HTML5 features, and more.
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Do you agree?
Pretty Good
The browser seems pretty good. I use the suite because I want to edit and update a simple website from time to time and it does this really well in wysiwyg and uploads from the application without any problems, so I'll keep using it. Oddly the updates page is untrusted, I hope this keeps up with the usual crowd, it's refreshing and a cool name too.
Posted by: Andrew 12 Jan 2010
Sea monkey email
If it uses Thunderbird 3,then it is of no use to users who connect to a POP Server since it uses IMAP by default and there is no option to change
Posted by: S 16 Dec 2009
The Best !!!
Herbie don`t know how use. This is obvious, the browser windows has an icon with the draw of a postcard and the window menu has the components options to open too. To use gmail you need FIRST turn on this feature on gmail account. Sorry for Herbie wants the Seamonkey read his mind and do all alone. This is a program, don`t a butler. If you want use a new program, you need search and read about.
Posted by: Jose 04 Nov 2009
No stars from me
I thought this was just the thing I needed; I was setting up a new PC and found that Windows 7 has no e-mail client. Seems like Microsoft were in a rush to replace Vista (quite understandable) and had no time to develop a decent replacement for the dreadful Windows Mail component that came with Vista. I downloaded Sea Monkey and installed it. When I clicked the desktop shortcut, I got to a web page with lots of info about Sea Monkey but nothing whatever about an e-mail client. I had to search around for a bit before I found a separate shortcut for this - so it's not all integrated as I was led to believe. I opened the application and supplied all the information about a new GMail account I had set up (and yes, I did enable POP on this account). I entered the POP and SMTP server information, went through all the other stuff and, when it was all done, I did a send/receive just to see if it worked. Nothing happened and after about half a minute it displayed a message that the GMail server had timed out. However, at no time did the thing prompt me for a password to use when logging in to the mail server! I went into the Accounts settings - not easy as they are all over the place - the SMTP server is at one end of a list and the POP server is at the other - and although there was a facility to tell it that you would use a password, there's no place to enter the damn thing and you are not prompted for it when you do a send/receive either. No doubt someone will tell me that if I do this, press that, go into the registry, set this key and then reboot, all will work. But for me, I don't want to spend a day and a half hacking around with it. I've been in IT for 40 years and I expect things to work properly. Much as I have gone off Microsoft, Outlook was a doddle to configure for e-mail and there's even a button to test the settings before you finish setting it up. The presentation is perfect, as far as I am concerned. My acquaintence with Sea Monkey has been very short, I fear. Maybe LandFish will be the answer.
Posted by: Herbie 31 Oct 2009
this is my chioce!
rss& email & newsgroups + a browser an irc client if you need it end even a html editor, small disk and memory footprint nice plugins, but not as much as for firefox easy to modify though overall great product!
Posted by: petkow 30 Oct 2009
POP
"POP was a local phone number for dialup users"? POP is Post Office Protocol, a way to retrieve email. You know, over the Internet tubes?
Posted by: Ted 20 Mar 2009
SeaMonkey not a Mozilla product
SeaMonkey is actually a product of the SeaMonkey Project, a group of programmers who picked up the Mozilla Suite code after the Mozilla guys [and gals!] who brought us Firefox and Thunderbird dropped the suite format in favor of the standalone browser and e-mail programs. At its core are the same browser and e-mail/usenet engines that drive FF and TB. The SeaMonkey Project enjoys the support of the Mozilla Foundation and is an active participant in the Mozilla community, contributing to and benefiting from the Mozilla codebase. Open source, it's a beautiful thing!
Posted by: Rich 02 Jul 2008
Simply The Best !!!
Crazy !!! This is the best navigator + the best e-mail cient. Is all you want to see pages and write and control multiples e-mails accounts with no spam !!!
Posted by: EduardoMartins-RJ 03 Feb 2007