[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Something else about this seamonkey vs mozilla conflict has been > bugging me. Why are the two even in conflict? Firefox is not in > conflict with either one. Can't they coexist? > Just take a close look at the history of those two packages and their current status and you should be able to answer that to yourself.
The Mozilla suite is what came out after Netscape decided to opensource their communicator. At some point Mozilla devs decided that the codebase was just too complex and rather than fixing it a rewrite would be more appropriate. That's when Firefox and Thunderbird were born (and one or more pther projects whose names I don't remember for sure... Sunbird?) After both Firefox and Thunderbird were somewhat mature the devs decided that it was time to let go of the Mozilla suite. They announced that development of it was dead and there would be no more releases, not for new features, not even for any kind of bugs. Some users of the Mozilla suite were unhappy about that and started a new project which should resurrect the Mozilla suite: Seamonkey was born. Now Firefox was designed to live alongside Mozilla, thereofr the same goes for Seamonkey. But Seamokey and the Mozilla suite are basically one and the same program. It was just renamed at some point and then further developed under the name "Seamonkey". That is why they don't get along that good. Another thing you should be aware of: As development (and even bugfixing) for Mozilla has ceased quite a while ago the last release has a number of security bugs that are well known and wide open. Any program using parts of Mozilla are therefor vulnerable as well. For that reason you shouldn't be using Mozilla and instead switch over to Firefox or Seamonkey. It will be removed from the tree sooner rather than later.
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