14 DAY TRIAL // SeaMonkey, a complete Internet suite featuring a web browser, an email client, and even a full HTML editing solution, has just reached version 2.25 and is now available for download.
It's interesting to note that, even if the SeaMonkey Internet suite has identified with Mozilla for a long time, the collection of applications is no longer in Mozilla's custody. In fact, it's now developed by the community, a little like the almost dead Thunderbird.
The developers of SeaMonkey call themselves the SeaMonkey Council, but unlike the people who take care of Thunderbird, these ones actually take their time to implement new features, not just blindly add a few more security patches.
The SeaMonkey Suite is composed of a few different applications, like an Internet browser, email and newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, and IRC chat and web development tools.
“The SeaMonkey project is proud to present SeaMonkey 2.25: The new major release of the all-in-one Internet suite is available for download now! Building on the same Mozilla platform as the newest Firefox release, it delivers the latest developments in web technologies such as HTML5, hardware acceleration and improved JavaScript speed,” reads the official announcement.
A lot of major changes have been implemented in SeaMonkey 2.25. For example, a problem that was causing certain RSS protocol feeds to be treated as duplicates and not stored has been fixed, feed folder auto-creation can no longer fail, confirming the Sync View Quota dialog no longer errors out, reopening a saved draft no longer adds again the deleted automatic CC or BCC recipients, and folder pane scrolling performance has been improved for feed folders.
Also, feeds now support the received date, the title of the “Quit SeaMonkey” dialog has been corrected, labels for falsestart-rsa and falsestart-rc4 permissions are no longer added to the Data Manager, the style of the about:privatebrowsing page has been improved and the content has been rearranged, it's no longer possible to have two identical account names, the PulseAudio support has been disable (at least for now), and the “Trust junk mail headers set by” menu list can no longer show entries multiple times.
A few smaller fixes have been added. For example, the character encoding menu has changed, the arrow keys now work on the restore session page, and the newsgroup names can now be entered using the autocompletion function.
More details about this version can be found in the official announcement. Download SeaMonkey 2.25 right now from Softpedia.