Seamonkey 1.1 Released

stuuf writes "Version 1.1 of the Seamonkey Internet Application Suite is now available, with quite a few improvements over the 1.0 series. Some of the new features include spell checking in form text areas, a new tagging system to classify email, a better indicator for secure web sites and preview images for browser tabs. This release also includes many of the updates that have gone into the Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2 branches. Check out the release notes and download page for more."

Spell Checker

[jmagar.com]

It's about time that the spell check feature become standard in all browsers. It boggles the mind that this has for a very long time been the main reason to get the Google toolbar, and the browser folks have not responded by including it in their package. With all this web 2.0 hype, and you being the person of the year, why is there no spell checker in the tool we use to create all that damned content?

Well done Seamonkey!

Re:SeaMonkey vs Firefox / Thunderbird

[zer0halo]

Actually Thunderbird has built in NewsReader as well. Firefox has a couple of excellent newsreader extensions, and an HTML extension as well.

I also don't see the advantage of SeaMonkey over Firefox+Thunderbird, though perhaps I'm missing something. I wonder why developers continue to invest work in SeaMonkey rather than just create a meta-package that combines Firefox + Thunderbird + necessary extensions.

Re:Spell Checker

[bradkittenbrink]

Probably because most of us dont use browsers to create content, only to view it. Creators tend to use tooling with spellcheckers included.

... he says as creating "content" from within a browser.

Re:Spell Checker

[drinkypoo]

I'm not quite sure why I need a browser, e-mail/news reader, IRC client, and HTML editor together in one package.

Well then don't download it and STFU. What a waste of bytes. Guess what? I don't need a mammogram. Maybe they should take those breast cancer awareness commercials off the TV!

Re:SeaMonkey vs Firefox / Thunderbird

[noldrin]

If you are using any combination of Browser, Mail and Composer, Seamonkey is more compact. Also traditionally firefox has lagged behind seamonkey in tab functionality. These days I like it because it tends to filter out some of the craziness of firefox, so by the time Seamonkey gets features they tend to be the best ones with very bugs.

Re:Spell Checker

[ZOMFF]

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Re:Competitors

[Ididerus]

Um, it doesn't use Firefox, it uses the less-than-clean UI of Mozilla. It looks similar to Netscape ver.5 Which is soooo 1995

I'm sure that it is a great browser, but Mozilla needs to give us the option of which browser to use with the Seamonkey pack. Then I might consider getting rid of my Firefox/Gmail.com/mIRC/Notepad combo, which I can tell you is a lot more compact than Seamonkey.

Re:Competitors

[evilneko]

Right. It uses the more-complete UI of Mozilla. ;) And it's anything but clunky. Maybe I'm biased as a Netscape fan from back when, but I rather like the UI. Interface aside, Seamonkey uses the same engine as Firefox, and at times uses a newer version. Mozilla/Seamonkey was on Gecko 1.8 long before Firefox got it.