The new project-leading group is called the SeaMonkey Council. The development of SeaMonkey is community-driven, in contrast to the Mozilla Application Suite, which until its last released version (1.7.13) was governed by the Mozilla Foundation. SeaMonkey was created in 2005 after the Mozilla Foundation decided to focus on the standalone projects Firefox and Thunderbird. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code, which itself grew out of Netscape Communicator and formed the base of Netscape 6 and Netscape 7. SeaMonkey is a free and open-source Internet suite. It now feels more like a corporation making software as a chore rather than making it 'straight out of the heart'.Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English (US), English (British), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Argentina), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian While they still seem to care about the open web and Firefox, that passion for making the internet a better place has faded significantly. Some for the better, and many ways for worse. I know this is a long post and that most people in Mozilla are more concerned with Firefox but I started using Firefox at a time (2008) when the organization promoted the other products more often. Will the SeaMonkey council and Thunderbird project separate themselves from Mozilla eventually? I get that Firefox is their flagship product that impacts the most people but I still do not like how Mozilla is treating the SeaMonkey council and the Thunderbird project. It seems that for the past four to six years, Mozilla has been focusing more on Firefox than Thunderbird or SeaMonkey. Will Thunderbird and or SeaMonkey adopt the Photon UI in Firefox? If not, what would the implications be for having inconsistent UIs? Given that Thunderbird supports extensions will Thunderbird adopt the WebExtensions API? I heard that the Thunderbird project is facing similar issues. Personal: Can a SeaMonkey user tell me about how and why the like the suite so I can understand why some people value it? What will happen to SeaMonkey in the near future and it's leadership? How will they rewrite SeaMonkey to bring it up to par with Firefox 57+ given the limited resources or SeaMonkey? Will SeaMonkey adopt electrolysis (mutli-process tab isolation)? SeaMonkey is making some revenue through a sponsorship with DuckDuckGo as the default search engine.īut I am confused on some things and I would appreciate answers to them please.ĭoes SeaMonkey currently support WebExtensions or will so in the future? They would need to migrate off XUL and implement some kind of compatibility with e10s or the suite might not survive for much longer. This can be very problematic for the SeaMonkey community (regardless of how small it is) since the development of the internet suite is dependent on the who writes the code.Īlso, it seems that they have little resources to do a rewrite of SeaMonkey to bring it up to par with Firefox 57+. I noticed that the development team (which consists of less than 12 people) is struggling to keep up with bug fixes and newer features to the Gecko engine. From my understanding, they are autonomous from Mozilla and are mostly on their own in terms of development. It seems that the SeaMonkey council is facing some serious problems with the future and sustainability of the project.
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