NewsForge: SeaMonkey Project Picks Up where Halted Mozilla Suite Left Off

“After what one lead developer called a ‘very good’ beta release
in mid-December, the SeaMonkey project expects the final release of
version 1.0 to be out this month, rescuing jilted users of the
former Mozilla Suite of Web applications from the abyss of
non-integrated applications.

“The Mozilla Foundation announced in 2003 that it would stop
developing the Mozilla Suite with the 1.7.x line of releases,
handing off the code base to the SeaMonkey Council. Version 1.0,
according to a letter signed by most members of the current
Council, is the project’s efforts to release a SeaMonkey front end
running on a Gecko layout engine version 1.8 back end…”

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