SeaMonkey

For other uses, see Seamonkey (disambiguation).

SeaMonkey
Developer(s)SeaMonkey Council
Initial releaseJanuary 30, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-01-30)
Stable release
2.53.19[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 4 September 2024
Preview release2.53.18 Beta 1 (November 25, 2023; 11 months ago (2023-11-25)[2]) [±]
Repository
Written inC++, XUL, XBL, JavaScript
EnginesGecko, SpiderMonkey
Operating systemWindows, 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
TypeInternet suite
LicenseMPL-2.0[4]
Websiteseamonkey-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]

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]

  1. ^ "SeaMonkey 2.53.19 released". September 4, 2024. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  2. ^ "SeaMonkey 2.53.18 Beta 1". SeaMonkey Project. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  3. ^ a b "SeaMonkey: Download & Releases". April 15, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  4. ^ "SeaMonkey: Legal Resources". SeaMonkey Council. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  5. ^ a b "About SeaMonkey". June 23, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  6. ^ Andrew Powell (February 14, 2014). "SeaMonkey - More than a Web Browser". TheLinuxRain. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  7. ^ Chris Ilias. "Mozilla-Netscape Relationship". Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  8. ^ Lemon Juice (June 13, 2015). "Firefox & Thunderbird Add-on Converter for SeaMonkey". Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  9. ^ SeaMonkey Council (May 2, 2017). "The State of the SeaMonkey Union!". Retrieved November 27, 2017.