Author Archives: ctho

We’re pleased to announce our first security/stability release, SeaMonkey 1.0.1, available for download here. All users of previous SeaMonkey versions, the Netscape suite and the Mozilla suite (which will be completely discontinued following a final security release next week) are … Continue reading →

Here’s a pretty picture showing our roadmap with planned releases from the various branches. Generally, we’re planning to ship releases at about the same time as Firefox releases (i.e. SM1.1 when Fx2 ships, SM1.5 when Fx3 ships) Large Version Trunk … Continue reading →

It’s been almost a year since the birth of the SeaMonkey project following the official end of development of the Mozilla suite, and I’m happy to announce that we made it to 1.0! Those of you who are still using … Continue reading →

After much delay, we’ve released SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta, based on Gecko 1.8 (which also powers Firefox 1.5). Some interesting changes since 1.0 Alpha: our new logo, tab drag-drop reodering, autoscroll, the ability to return to a tab’s “parent” when it … Continue reading →

We’ll be freezing for 1.0 beta at 11:59pm tomorrow, Wednesday December 15th. Beta will be feature complete and L10n-frozen, so between beta and final we’ll only be accepting stability/security/regression fixes (plus minor polish chages). We’ll need heavy testing of the … Continue reading →

After months of submissions and selection processes, we’ve announced a new logo for the project and our application. Our initial call for logo submissions was answered with no fewer than 197 different proposals submitted by Mozilla and SeaMonkey community members. … Continue reading →

This is taken from KaiRo’s post on netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey (but with some edits): Our current plan [for 1.0 beta] is to get outstanding bugs marked “blocking-seamonkey1.0b+” fixed, the main thing being the new artwork being introduced and our new logo, which … Continue reading →

Unfortunately it took longer than expected to pick a winning logo, but the choice has been made. The final logo is very similar to one of the submissions (with slight color modifications). We’re currently working with the author to create … Continue reading →

Since we’ll need some time to choose a logo from all the logo submissions we’ve received and create derivative artwork for the browser before doing a SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta release (planned for some time around October 5th), we will stop … Continue reading →

SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha has been released. Compared to Mozilla 1.7, SeaMonkey contains many new features, bugfixes, and performance improvements. It’s based on Gecko 1.8b4 (the engine behind Firefox 1.5b1, though SeaMonkey includes an extra security fix). We’re still looking for … Continue reading →