gHacks technology news » internet suite http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:59:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 RC2http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/19/mozilla-seamonkey-2-0-rc2/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/19/mozilla-seamonkey-2-0-rc2/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:44:40 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=17457 seamonkeyA little bit more than a week ago we previewed the first release candidate of the Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 Internet suite. The program, which started of with code based on Netscape Communicator, combines not only a web browser but also an email client, IRC client, instant messenger, newsgroup client and HTML editor in the application. The main benefit of this approach is obviously that all these popular application types are accessible from within the interface of one application opposed to installing different applications for the various purposes.

The second release candidate of Seamonkey 2.0 is already available for download at the Mozilla website. There it is available for all supported operating systems and languages.

According to a post in the Seamonkey newsgroup no separate release notes are being published for release candidates. The developers of Seamonkey 2.0 have therefor not published release notes for this new release. According to sources it should be the last release candidate before the final release of the Internet suite.

Seamonkey 2.0 RC2 can be downloaded from the Mozilla Seamonkey website. The Usenet post announcing the second release candidate can be accessed here.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/19/mozilla-seamonkey-2-0-rc2/feed/ 3 Seamonkey 2.0 Release Candidate 1 Availablehttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/11/seamonkey-2-0-release-candidate-1-available/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/11/seamonkey-2-0-release-candidate-1-available/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:43:25 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=17162 seamonkeyFirefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. Those are the five most popular web browsers on the Internet. If you would ask users to mention two more most would probably have difficulties answering the questions while others might mention Flock and Seamonkey (and probably Netscape). Seamonkey is a Mozilla project. It combines not only a web browser but also other Internet related apps under its hood including an email client, IRC client, newsgroup (Usenet) reader and HTML editor. That’s an impressive list for one application and it could remind Internet veterans of the Netscape Communicator suite that also combined many of those features under the hood. Most might be surprised that Seamonkey, which is also known as the Mozilla Application Suite, is in fact based on source code used in Netscape Communicator.

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The first release candidate of Seamonkey 2.0 has been published on the Mozilla Seamonkey project page. Interested users can download the Internet suite for all supported operating systems (Windows, OSX and Linux) and languages. A page full of changes relative to the latest Seamonkey 1.0 stable release has been posted by the developers. The list is huge. Some of the noteworthy additions include session restore, tabbed mail, switch to the Toolkit backend used by Firefox, improved password manager and download manager, update of the Gecko rendering engine and dropped support for Windows NT 4, Windows 9x, Windows ME and Mac OSX 10.3.

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