SeaMonkey

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SeaMonkey
Developer(s) SeaMonkey Council
Initial releaseJanuary 30, 2006;18 years ago (2006-01-30)
Stable release
2.53.18.2 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 28 March 2024
Preview release 2.53.18 Beta 1 (November 25, 2023;5 months ago (2023-11-25) [2] ) [±]
Repository
Written in C++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript
Engines Gecko, SpiderMonkey
Operating system Windows, macOS, Linux [3]
Available in26 languages [3]
List of languages
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
Type Internet suite
License MPL-2.0 [4]
Website seamonkey-project.org

SeaMonkey is a free and open-source Internet suite. [5] It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code, [6] which itself grew out of Netscape Communicator and formed the base of Netscape 6 and Netscape 7. [7]

Contents

SeaMonkey was created in 2005 after the Mozilla Foundation decided to focus on the standalone projects Firefox and Thunderbird. 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. The new project-leading group is called the SeaMonkey Council. [5]

Compared to Firefox, the SeaMonkey web browser keeps the more traditional-looking interface of Netscape and the Mozilla Application Suite, most notably the XUL architecture. This allows the user to extend SeaMonkey by modifying add-ons for Thunderbird or the add-ons that were formerly compatible with Firefox before the latter switched to WebExtensions. [8] [9]

Components

SeaMonkey consists of a web browser, which is a descendant of the Netscape family, [10] an e-mail and news client program (SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups, which shares code with Mozilla Thunderbird), an HTML editor (SeaMonkey Composer) and an IRC client (ChatZilla). The software suite supports skins. It comes with two skins in the default installation, Modern and Classic. [11]

Mail

SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups 2.53.17.1 Seamonkey Mail & Newsgroups 2.53.17.1 screenshot.png
SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups 2.53.17.1

SeaMonkey Mail is a traditional e-mail client that includes support for multiple accounts, junk mail detection, message filters, HTML message support, and address books, among other features such as a calendar. [12] It shares code with Mozilla Thunderbird; both Thunderbird and SeaMonkey are built from Mozilla's comm-central source tree. [13]

Composer

SeaMonkey Composer 2.53.17.1 Seamonkey Composer 2.53.17.1 screenshot.png
SeaMonkey Composer 2.53.17.1

SeaMonkey Composer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor descended from Mozilla Composer. Its main user interface features four tabs: Normal (WYSIWYG), HTML tags, HTML code, and browser preview. The generated code is HTML 4.01 Transitional. [14]

Naming

To avoid confusing organizations that still want to use the original Mozilla Application Suite, the new product needed a new name. After initial speculation by members of the community, a July 2, 2005 announcement confirmed that SeaMonkey would officially become the name of the Internet suite superseding the Mozilla Application Suite. [15]

"Seamonkey" (with a lowercase "m") refers to brine shrimp and had been used by Netscape and the Mozilla Foundation as a code name for the never-released Netscape Communicator 5 and later the Mozilla Application Suite itself. Originally, the name "Seamonkey" was derived by Netscape management to replace "Buttmonkey", which their developers had chosen following an internal contest for the codename. [16]

The SeaMonkey Council has now trademarked the name with help from the Mozilla Foundation. [17] The project uses a separate numbering scheme, with the first release being called SeaMonkey 1.0. Despite having a different name and version number, SeaMonkey 1.0 is based on the same code as Mozilla Application Suite 1.7.

For trademark and copyright reasons, Debian rebranded SeaMonkey and distributed it as Iceape until 2013. [18]

History

On March 10, 2005, the Mozilla Foundation announced that it would not release any official versions of Mozilla Application Suite beyond 1.7.x, since it had now focused on the standalone applications Firefox and Thunderbird. [19] However, the Foundation emphasized that it would still provide infrastructure for community members who wished to continue development. In effect, this meant that the suite would still continue to be developed, but now by the SeaMonkey Council instead of the Mozilla Foundation.[ citation needed ]

SeaMonkey was first released on September 15, 2005. SeaMonkey 1 was released on January 30, 2006. [3]

Core Mozilla project source code was licensed under a disjunctive tri-license (before changing to MPL 2.0) that gave the choice of one of the three following sets of licensing terms: Mozilla Public License, version 1.1 or later, GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later, GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later. [20]

Release history

Parts of this table are based on the SeaMonkey release notes, and status meetings.

Release history
Gecko BranchVersionRelease dateSignificant changes
1.81.0 AlphaSeptember 15, 2005
1.0 BetaDecember 19, 2005SVG graphics support enabled by default. [21]
1.8.01.0January 30, 2006 [22] Official Version 1.0 release.
1.0.1April 13, 2006Security updates and native support for Intel-based Macintosh computers, via Universal Binary.
1.0.2June 1, 2006Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.0.3July 27, 2006Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.0.4August 2, 2006Small fix for a regression with the Microsoft Media Server protocol in 1.0.3.
1.0.5September 14, 2006Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.0.6 [23] November 8, 2006Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.0.7December 20, 2006 [24] Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.0.8February 27, 2007Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.0.9May 30, 2007Stability improvement and security fixes. Marks the end of life for SeaMonkey 1.0.x series.
1.8.11.1 AlphaAugust 30, 2006 Major feature work
1.1 BetaNovember 8, 2006
1.1January 18, 2007Official Version 1.1 release.
1.1.1February 28, 2007Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.2May 30, 2007Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.3July 19, 2007Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.4August 3, 2007Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.5October 19, 2007Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.6November 5, 2007Several small problems in displaying certain web pages corrected
1.1.7November 30, 2007Stability improvement and security fixes. Problem with running SeaMonkey from read-only application directories corrected.
The last to be built for Solaris 8.
1.1.8February 7, 2008Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.9March 25, 2008Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.10July 2, 2008Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.11July 15, 2008Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.12September 23, 2008Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.13November 12, 2008Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.14December 16, 2008Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.15March 18, 2009Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.16April 8, 2009Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.17June 22, 2009Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.18September 3, 2009Stability improvement and security fixes.
1.1.19March 16, 2010Stability improvement and security fixes. End-of-life of 1.1.x product line.
The last to support Windows 98/Me.
The last to be built for Solaris 10.
1.9.12.0 Alpha 1October 5, 2008 Toolkit transition and major feature work
2.0 Alpha 2December 10, 2008Toolkit transition and major feature work
2.0 Alpha 3March 3, 2009Toolkit transition and major feature work
2.0 Beta 1July 21, 2009Follows Gecko 1.9.1.1 stable release, major feature work
2.0 Beta 2September 12, 2009 Major feature work
2.0 RC 1October 10, 2009 First release candidate
2.0 RC 2October 19, 2009 Second release candidate
2.0October 27, 2009Official Version 2.0 release.
2.0.1December 15, 2009Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.2January 11, 2010Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.3February 17, 2010Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.4March 30, 2010Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.5June 22, 2010Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.6July 20, 2010Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.7September 7, 2010Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.8September 15, 2010Stability improvements only.
2.0.9October 20, 2010Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.10October 28, 2010Security fix.
2.0.11December 9, 2010Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.12March 2, 2011Security fix.
2.0.13March 23, 2011Stability improvement and security fixes.
2.0.14April 28, 2011Stability improvement and security fixes.

This is the last version to support Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and PowerPC Macs

1.9.32.1 Alpha 1May 18, 2010 Feature work
2.1 Alpha 2July 7, 2010New addons manager, Feature work Archived July 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
2.02.1 Alpha 3August 24, 2010Third alpha release
2.1 Beta 1October 20, 2010First beta release
2.1 Beta 2February 14, 2011Second beta release
2.1 Beta 3April 7, 2011Third beta release
2.1 RC 1May 12, 2011First release candidate
2.1 RC 2June 6, 2011Second release candidate
2.1June 10, 2011Official Version 2.1 release.
The last to be built for OS/2.
5.02.2 Beta 1June 22, 2011First beta release
2.2 Beta 2June 28, 2011Second beta release
2.2 Beta 3July 2, 2011Third beta release
2.2July 7, 2011Official Version 2.2 release.
6.02.3 Beta 1July 25, 2011First beta release
2.3 Beta 2July 31, 2011Second beta release
2.3 Beta 3August 6, 2011Third beta release
2.3August 16, 2011Official Version 2.3 release.
2.3.1August 23, 2011 [25] Official Version 2.3.1 release. Added a security certificate in order to avoid disabling future automatic software updates.
2.3.2August 31, 2011 Official Version 2.3.2 release. Removed root certificate for Diginotar. Many downloads erroneously identify themselves as version 2.3.1. [26]
2.3.3September 6, 2011 Official Version 2.3.3 release. Removed trust exceptions for certificates issued by Staat der Nederlanden. Fixed an error with .gov.uk domains.
7.02.4 Beta 1September 6/7, 2011 [27] First beta release
2.4 Beta 2September 12, 2011Second beta release
2.4 Beta 3September 18, 2011Third beta release
2.4September 27, 2011Official Version 2.4 release.
2.4.1September 29, 2011Official Version 2.4.1 release.
8.02.5 Beta 1September 30, 2011First beta release
2.5 Beta 2October 7, 2011Second beta release
2.5 Beta 3October 14, 2011Third beta release
2.5 Beta 4November 9, 2011Fourth beta release
2.5November 22, 2011Official Version 2.5 release.
9.02.6 Beta 1November 23, 2011First beta release
2.6 Beta 2December 3, 2011Second beta release
2.6 Beta 3December 9, 2011Third beta release
2.6 Beta 4December 14, 2011Fourth beta release
2.6December 20, 2011Official Version 2.6 release.
2.6.1December 22, 2011Official Version 2.6.1 release.
10.02.7 Beta 1December 24, 2011First beta release
2.7 Beta 2December 30, 2011Second beta release
2.7 Beta 3January 7, 2012Third Beta release.
2.7 Beta 4January 20, 2012Fourth Beta release.
2.7 Beta 5January 26, 2012Fifth Beta release.
2.7January 31, 2012Official Version 2.7 release.
2.7.1February 10, 2012Official Version 2.7.1 release.
2.7.2February 17, 2012Official Version 2.7.2 release.
11.02.8 Alpha 1December 17, 2011First Alpha release.
2.8 Alpha 2December 18, 2011Second Alpha release.
2.8 Beta 1February 4, 2012First Beta release.
2.8 Beta 2February 9, 2012Second Beta release.
2.8 Beta 3February 18, 2012Third Beta release.
2.8 Beta 4February 25, 2012Fourth Beta release.
2.8 Beta 5March 6, 2012Fifth Beta release.
2.8 Beta 6March 8, 2012Sixth Beta release.
2.8March 13, 2012Official Version 2.8 release.
12.02.9 Alpha 1January 20, 2012First Alpha release.
2.9 Beta 1March 26, 2012First Beta release.
2.9 Beta 2March 30, 2012Second Beta release.
2.9 Beta 3April 14, 2012Third Beta release.
2.9 Beta 4April 19, 2012Fourth Beta release.
2.9April 24, 2012Official Version 2.9 release.
2.9.1April 30, 2012Official Version 2.9.1 release. [28]
This is the last version to support Windows 2000. [29]
13.02.10 Beta 1May 12, 2012First Beta release.
2.10 Beta 2May 23, 2012Second Beta release.
2.10 Beta 3June 1, 2012Third Beta release.
2.10June 6, 2012Official Version 2.10 release.
2.10.1June 16, 2012Official Version 2.10.1 release.
14.02.11 Beta 1June 8, 2012First Beta release.
2.11 Beta 2June 14, 2012Second Beta release.
2.11 Beta 3June 23, 2012Third Beta release.
2.11 Beta 4July 1, 2012Fourth Beta release.
2.11 Beta 5July 6, 2012Fifth Beta release.
2.11 Beta 6July 11, 2012Sixth Beta release.
2.11July 17, 2012Official Version 2.11 release.
15.02.12 Beta 1July 21, 2012First Beta release.
2.12 Beta 2July 27, 2012Second Beta release.
2.12August 28, 2012Official Version 2.12 release.
2.12.1September 10, 2012Official Version 2.12.1 release.
16.02.13 Beta 1September 1, 2012First Beta release.
2.13 Beta 2September 7, 2012Second Beta release.
2.13 Beta 3September 14, 2012Third Beta release.
2.13 Beta 4September 23, 2012Fourth Beta release.
2.13 Beta 5September 29, 2012Fifth Beta release.
2.13 Beta 6October 5, 2012Sixth Beta release.
2.13October 9, 2012Official Version 2.13 release.
2.13.1October 12, 2012Official Version 2.13.1 release.
2.13.2October 27, 2012Official Version 2.13.2 release. Last version supported on Mac OS X 10.5
17.02.14 beta 1October 22, 2012First beta version.
2.14 beta 2October 26, 2012Second beta version.
2.14 beta 3November 2, 2012Third beta version.
2.14 beta 4November 9, 2012Fourth beta version.
2.14 beta 5November 9, 2012Fifth beta version.
2.14November 9, 2012Official Version 2.14.
2.14.1November 30, 2012Official Version 2.14.1.
18.02.15 beta 1November 26, 2012First beta version.
2.15 beta 2December 9, 2012Second beta version.
2.15 beta 3December 7, 2012Third beta version.
2.15 beta 4December 14, 2012Fourth beta version.
2.15 beta 5December 21, 2012Fifth beta version.
2.15 beta 6January 2, 2013Sixth beta version.
2.15January 8, 2013Official Version 2.15 release.
2.15.1January 20, 2013Official Version 2.15.1 release.
2.15.2February 4, 2013Official Version 2.15.2 release.
19.02.16 beta 1January 12, 2013First beta version.
2.16 beta 2January 27, 2013Second beta version.
2.16 Beta 3February 1, 2013Third beta version.
2.16 Beta 4February 8, 2013Fourth beta version.
2.16 Beta 5February 15, 2013Fifth beta version.
2.16February 21, 2013Official Version 2.16 release.
2.16.1March 8, 2013Official Version 2.16.1 release.
2.16.2March 13, 2013Official Version 2.16.2 release.
20.02.17 beta 1February 26, 2013First beta version.
2.17 beta 2March 18, 2013Second beta version.
2.17 beta 3March 24, 2013Third beta version.
2.17 beta 4March 28, 2013Fourth beta version.
2.17April 2, 2013Official Version 2.17 release.
2.17.1April 14, 2013Official Version 2.17.1 release.
21.02.18 Beta 1April 5, 2013First beta version.
2.18 Beta 2April 19, 2013Second beta version.
2.18 Beta 3April 27, 2013Third beta version.
2.18 Beta 4May 3, 2013Fourth beta version.
2.18Not releasedOfficial Version 2.18 has been skipped due to technical problems with the build architecture. [30]
22.02.19 Beta 1June 20, 2013First beta version.
2.19 Beta 2June 26, 2013Second beta version.
2.19July 2, 2013Official Version 2.19 release.
23.02.20 Beta 1July 9, 2013First beta version.
2.20 Beta 2July 23, 2013Second beta version.
2.20 Beta 2July 30, 2013Third beta version.
2.20August 6, 2013Official Version 2.20 release.
24.02.21 Beta 1September 7, 2013First beta version.
2.21 Beta 2September 11, 2013Second beta version.
2.21September 17, 2013Official Version 2.21 release.
25.02.22 Beta 1October 21, 2013First beta version.
2.22 Beta 2October 25, 2013Second beta version.
2.22October 30, 2013Official Version 2.22 release.
2.22.1November 18, 2013Official Version 2.22.1 release.
26.02.23 Beta 1December 6, 2013First beta version.
2.23 Beta 2December 8, 2013Second beta version.
2.23December 12, 2013Official Version 2.23 release.
27.02.24 Beta 1February 3, 2014First beta version.
2.24February 6, 2014Official Version 2.24 release.
28.02.25 Beta 1February 13, 2014First beta version.
2.25 Beta 2March 9, 2014Second beta version.
2.25 Beta 3March 14, 2014Third beta version.
2.25March 19, 2014Official Version 2.25 release.
29.02.26 Beta 1April 9, 2014First beta version.
2.26 Beta 2April 18, 2014Second beta version.
2.26May 2, 2014Official Version 2.26.0 release.
2.26.1June 16, 2014Official Version 2.26.1 release.
30.02.27Not releasedOfficial Version 2.27 has been skipped due to technical problems with the build architecture. [31]
31.02.28Not releasedOfficial Version 2.28 has been skipped due to technical problems with the build architecture. [31]
32.02.29 Beta 1August 27, 2014First beta version.
2.29 Beta 2September 2, 2014Second beta version.
2.29September 7, 2014Official Version 2.29 release.
2.29.1September 24, 2014Official Version 2.29.1 release.
33.02.30 Beta 1October 9, 2014First beta version.
2.30 Beta 2October 12, 2014Second beta version.
2.30October 15, 2014Official Version 2.30 release.
34.02.31 Beta 1November 2, 2014First beta version.
2.31 Beta 2November 28, 2014Second beta version.
2.31December 4, 2014Official Version 2.31 release.
35.02.32 Beta 1December 16, 2014First beta version.
2.32 Beta 2December 21, 2014Second beta version.
2.32 Beta 3January 4, 2015Third beta version.
2.32January 13, 2015Official Version 2.32 release.
2.32.1February 6, 2015Official Version 2.32.1 release.
36.02.33 Beta 1February 26, 2015First beta version.
2.33March 10, 2015Official Version 2.33 release.
2.33.1March 24, 2015Official Version 2.33.1 release.
37.02.34Not releasedOfficial Version 2.34 has been skipped.
38.02.35September 3, 2015Official Version 2.35 release.
39.02.36Not releasedOfficial Version 2.36 has been skipped.
40.02.37Not releasedOfficial Version 2.37 has been skipped.
41.02.38 Beta 1September 7, 2015First beta version.
2.38September 26, 2015Official Version 2.38 release.
42.02.39 Beta 1November 2, 2015First beta version.
2.39November 8, 2015Official Version 2.39 release.
43.02.40March 14, 2016Official Version 2.40 release.
This is the last version to support CPUs without SSE2 under Windows.
This is the last version to support Mac OS X 10.6-10.8. [32]
44.02.41Not releasedOfficial Version 2.41 has been skipped.
45.02.42Not releasedOfficial Version 2.42 has been skipped.
46.02.43Not releasedOfficial Version 2.43 has been skipped.
47.02.44Not releasedOfficial Version 2.44 has been skipped.
48.02.45Not releasedOfficial Version 2.45 has been skipped.
49.02.46December 22, 2016Official Version 2.46 release.
50.02.47Not releasedOfficial Version 2.47 has been skipped in favour of 2.46.
51.02.48 Beta 1April 15, 2017First beta version.
2.48July 31, 2017Official Version 2.48 release.
This is the last version to support GTK2 on Linux.
52.42.49.1November 4, 2017Official Version 2.49.1 release. Built from the same Extended Support Release (ESR) branch as Firefox 52 ESR and Thunderbird 52.
52.62.49.2February 15, 2018Official Version 2.49.2 release. Built from the same Extended Support Release (ESR) branch as Firefox 52 ESR and Thunderbird 52.
52.7.32.49.3May 4, 2018Official Version 2.49.3 release. Built from the same Extended Support Release (ESR) branch as Firefox 52 ESR and Thunderbird 52.
52.9.12.49.4July 27, 2018Official Version 2.49.4 release. Built from the same Extended Support Release (ESR) branch as Firefox 52 ESR and Thunderbird 52.
This is the last version to support plugins other than Flash on macOS. [33]
2.49.5September 4, 2019Official Version 2.49.5 release. Built from the same Extended Support Release (ESR) branch as Firefox 52 ESR and Thunderbird 52.
This is the last version to support Windows XP/Server 2003 and Windows Vista/Server 2008.
This is the last version to support ALSA on Linux.
This is the last version to support NPAPI plugins other than Flash. [33]
60.3 and later2.53.1 Beta 1January 18, 2020Updates backported from multiple Extended Support Release (ESR) branches. [34]
2.53.1February 28, 2020
2.53.2 Beta 1April 15, 2020
2.53.2May 3, 2020
60.4 and later2.53.3 Beta 1June 15, 2020
2.53.3July 7, 2020
60.6 and later2.53.4b1August 20, 2020
2.53.4September 22, 2020
60.8 and later2.53.5b1October 29, 2020
2.53.5November 13, 2020
2.53.5.1November 17, 2020
2.53.6b1December 28, 2020
2.53.6January 22, 2021Last version to include support for NPAPI plugins. [35]
2.53.7March 10, 2021Updates backported from multiple Extended Support Release (ESR) branches. [34]
2.53.7.1April 15, 2021
2.53.8b1May 31, 2021
2.53.8June 30, 2021
2.53.9b1August 11, 2021
2.53.9August 26, 2021
2.53.9.1September 28, 2021
2.53.10b1October 29, 2021
2.53.10November 16, 2021
2.53.10.1December 13, 2021
2.53.10.2December 28, 2021
2.53.11b1January 30, 2022
2.53.11March 2, 2022
2.53.11.1March 25, 2022
2.53.12b1April 23, 2022
2.53.12May 4, 2022
2.53.13b1June 16, 2022
2.53.13July 11, 2022
2.53.14b1August 31, 2022
2.53.14September 29, 2022
2.53.15b1December 7, 2022
2.53.15January 20, 2023
2.53.16b1February 28, 2023
2.53.16March 31, 2023
2.53.17b1June 20, 2023
2.53.17August 4, 2023
2.53.17.1September 20, 2023
2.53.18b1November 14, 2023
2.53.18December 9, 2023
2.53.18.1January 16, 2024
2.53.18.2March 28, 2024

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