![]() I have not used the Classic version so I cannot say how well it works but my guess is that it will have more and more issues as time goes on. Waterfox is another Firefox clone that comes in two versions: Waterfox Classic where they have been trying to keep some of the old legacy extensions alive while still using the more modern Firefox technology-they are working off of Firefox ESR v56 and Waterfox Third Generation where they are very similar to the current Firefox and are updated on the current Firefox schedule. (See " ".) It is not updated as often as Firefox but it works just as well with usually no issues. ![]() SlimBrowser is a Firefox clone with perhaps a few extra features built in. It does not use the old legacy extensions that many of us became used to, but beyond that it functions quite well and usually does not have any issues. Of the other main 10 that I use there are five gecko-related browsers (Firefox, Slim, and Waterfox in one category and PaleMoon and MyPal in another.)įirefox works well and is updated continually. I use SeaMonkey for most browsing and various special purposes and especially for downloading other programs. I run about 10 browsers on a mostly daily rotation except for weekends. I have found that these multiple processes use up a lot of resources but they still work well on modern machines with adequate memory. By contrast all of the other gecko-based (Firefox-related) and chromium-based (Chrome-related) browsers show multiple processes in operation. I do not understand this 'under the hood' difference but I do know that in my various 'process monitor' programs (similar to the Windows Task Manager), SeaMonkey always shows just one process in operation. On the other hand if you are talking about the browser aspect alone then there are reasonable alternatives but they work a little differently 'under the hood' so to speak. This feature was added in bug 266541.If you are talking about a browser that mostly reproduces the entire SeaMonkey suite then you are probably out of luck. Change “Normal click” (and probably the other three as well, depending on your personal preferences) to goto-url-external. Go to ChatZilla > Preferences > Global Settings > Global > Links. If you use ChatZilla, you’ll want to change your settings to have links open in an external browser.(Even if the “Add to SeaMonkey” button is grayed out, you can install it anyway.) This extension makes all links in Mail & Newsgroups open in your default browser (or another browser that you define in the options.)Īdditionally, you will be able to right-click on links in the SeaMonkey browser and have them open in the external browser instead. Install the Standalone SeaMonkey Mail extension.Regardless of this setting, you can also open Mail & Newsgroups by launching SeaMonkey with the -mail command line option the Windows version comes with a SeaMonkey Mail shortcut in the Start Menu that will do the same thing. Here, you can tell SeaMonkey that when it starts, you want to open the mail client but not the browser. You’ll want SeaMonkey to open Mail & Newsgroups, not the browser, when you start it.Here are three steps I’ve found so far that anyone using SeaMonkey for email – but not for web browsing – can take advantage of. At that point, I’ll probably switch to another browser (Firefox, Pale Moon or Vivaldi – Chrome’s lack of a menu bar bugs me), but I’ll probably keep using SeaMonkey for email. Versions 2.48 and 2.49 are coming up next, and 2.49 will get security updates at least until January of next year, as it will be based on the Firefox 52 ESR branch.įirefox has some big changes (and removals) planned between now and the end of Firefox 52 ESR support, so it’s possible that SeaMonkey might not continue past then. I’ve been using SeaMonkey as my main web browser and email client for a couple of years now.
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