Steve wrote:
I'm about to post a bookmarks-related issue, but since you get nothing
but issues and complaints I thought I would say something nice first. I
absolutely love the new SeaMonkey 2, and appreciate all the work you
guys put into it.
I switched from Mozilla to Firefox five years ago due to slowness and
bloat, and NEVER would have thought that in 2009 I would be switching
back for the exact same reasons! SeaMonkey's browser and mail client
together on my system take up about half the RAM as Firefox and
Thunderbird running simultaneously, and that's even before Firefox's
memory leaks start driving up the ratio further.
I've always preferred the old Mozilla mail over Thunderbird (when I say
"Send messages using HTML format", dammit I *mean* use HTML format!).
Now having a tabbed interface makes it even better! It seems like a
minor thing, but I often get impatient waiting on a newsgroup to
download and wondered why I couldn't just do that in a "new tab" like
the browser would do.
I had been keeping an eye on SeaMonkey since around 1.17, but couldn't
quite take the full plunge because many contemporary websites don't work
well with the older rendering engine. Now everything looks great, or at
least as great as it would on Firefox. I was just bummed that there
isn't a "portable apps" version of SeaMonkey like there is for Firefox,
because I use that at work to keep my personal email and passwords off
the company PC. However, lo and behold this morning there IS now a
portable SeaMonkey 2.0
(http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/seamonkey_portable)! With that
last piece in place, I can now be rid of Firefox.
The only thing I would suggest to make SeaMonkey better right now would
be setting the default theme to "Modern" rather than "Classic". The
modern theme has held up very well and still looks sleek and
contemporary today... people to whom I show SeaMonkey are impressed when
they see the interface and learn that the memory footprint is so much
smaller. However, the classic theme is seriously dated and doesn't make
a great first impression on new users.
Thanks a lot for all the effort guys, it's great to be back!
A portable SeaMonkey is a godsend indeed. Finally you can click on
mailto in the browser or a web link in mail/news, and not have the host
systems default open up. SeaMonkey might have been designed for portable
use in that regard, due to the tight integration among the components.
Lee
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