Interviewed by CNN on 13/11/2009 16:53, Rex told the world: > You'll find most people here have done the opposite. I've been on FF > since the time it was known as Phoenix, and TB a little less than that. > I still miss Firefox, but I love the mail-browser integration of > Seamonkey. And Seamonkey 2.0 uses the same codebase as Firefox and > Thunderbird, which is why you're seeing similarities. > And yes..extensions are what I miss the most. Many popular extensions > are yet to be ported to Seamonkey..if at all.
OTOH, now that Seamonkey's codebase is so close to that of FF+TB, in many, many cases the effort to "port" an extension to SM2 is trivial -- while in the old codebase, the programmer had to do include code needed only for Seamonkey. In some cases, an entire separate version ended up being written. Some extension developers stopped supporting Seamonkey at some point, leaving only old, outdated versions to SM users. So... my expectation is that, although *right now* there is some dearth of Seamonkey-compatible extensions, in a couple months there will be more than ever. For instance, the upgrade to SM2 already allows me to use the new version of DownThemAll, which does more stuff than the old, SM1-compatible version. The only thing I'll have to do without for a while is Multizilla -- which was *never* available for Firefox, by the way. But the developer has stated an intention of finishing the Suiterunner port he started sometime last year -- only, he's too busy with his RL job right now, so it will take some time. SM2 is not perfect, of course. Some changes in behavior annoy the hell of me -- but I'm not sure if those are real changes or it's just that I got so used to Multizilla I don't even remember the default behavior for Mozilla/Seamonkey. So I'm having to unlearn some habits... for now. Still, I'm not ready to leave SM for Firefox; in fact, now that there's a Portable SM2, I'll probably switch my PortableApps flash drive to Seamonkey too. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... I bought a cordless extension cord. * TagZilla 0.0661 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org on Seamonkey 2.0 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
