Mozilla Suite Lives On As SeaMonkey--v1.0 Alpha Released for Testing

The development of Mozilla's internet application suite was cut off at v1.7.x (soon to be 1.7.12). It has emerged again as SeaMonkey. Version 1.0 Alpha of SeaMonkey is available for download by you bleeding edgers. Here are the release notes.

SeaMonkey is developed from the Mozilla Suite code base but shares code with Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1. SeaMonkey does not yet have final icons but it will have the general Mozilla/Netscape look and feel.

According to MozillaZine.org,

SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha features more than just a state-of-the-art web browser, though: the application comes with a powerful email client as well as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat application. For web developers, mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools are included as well. SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha is one of the most powerful and secure internet software packages currently available, even though this release is only for testing.

We downloaded and tested SeaMonkey and didn't encouter any problems during limited use. [Dana Baggett]