Interviewed by CNN on 15/12/2009 21:34, hawker told the world: > So I just got to wondering if most of us Seamonkey people are just > Netscape hold ons that are not comfortable with the FireFox/Thunderbird > interface for whatever reason? > > Anyone out there a Seamonkey user who was not a Netscape users? > As for me I started on Netscape 1.x though 4.6x then skipped to Netscape > 7.x (6.x never worked well for me), on to Mozilla Suite and then > Seamonkey. Firefox/Thunderbird never felt comfortable to me since I > knew Netscape better and so I stay here with Seamonkey. > > I'm asking all this because I'm currently questing why I am staying on > Seamonkey. I like a few things about it over Firefox/Thunderbird but > with 2.0 out and many extensions broken or no longer supporting > Seamonkey - all of which still work in Firefox I'm questing why I'm so > resistant to go over th Firefox. Seamonkey just isn't getting the > support it did when it was still Mozilla Suite unfortunately (a fact I > don't want to accept). > > I'm also still, on some computers, still a Eudora user even though that > program, with all that is great about it, is getting almost to the point > of unusable with poor current standards support. So perhaps I'm just an > anachronism wishing still for the days of 110baud teletype BBSs again ;) > > > Anyone want to wax philosophical about this?
I'm also a longtime Netscape (from about 1.1, I guess) user, but not too obsessive about it. I used Portable Firefox + Portable Thunderbird on my flash drive (my "mobile office," so to speak -- I never liked laptops) until recently, and I liked them, and some things they did better than Seamonkey, but I missed the integration. The main thing, I guess, is that I'm opening links from e-mail all the time, and it just works better in Seamonkey -- particularly a few years ago, when I used to leave IE as default browser (otherwise some IE-dependent software behaved strangely). For instance, you can Ctrl-click a link from a mail in SM, and it will open on a new tab. You can't do it in a case-by-case with separate apps -- it's an all-or-nothing choice. Multizilla played a large role into holding me to Seamonkey, too. In the early Firefox days, when Mozilla looked doomed, I tried to find something that would give me the same sort of options in Firefox and Thunderbird -- with no success. So I kept on, even though SM 1.x was looking ever and ever more dated compared to FF. (It wasn't as bad as the later Netscape 4.x times, when the browser was horribly obsolete and buggy, and Mozilla was still too crude and buggy, but still, it made me look at the options from time to time) Now SM2 brings back the promise of feature parity with Firefox and Thunderbird -- not quite there yet, but I would say that at least three-fourths of the difference were recovered, probably more. I'm Multizilla-less for the time being, but I'm making do with the trunk improvements and a few extensions -- and there's also a promise of a new version eventually. So, it's not so much "why don't I move to Firefox?" but rather "why would I do it NOW that things are rapidly improving?" I like the feature set, I'm comfortable with the interface, it fits my workflow better than separate apps, and most of the stuff I envied about FF and TB are now available. I may be a fossil, but I'm not a BLIND fossil. I looked at just about all other browser at some time or another. I never liked IE, it always rubbed me the wrong way. Opera has a good features set, but it never quite gelled for me. Safari left me cold -- they messed with the user interface in a way that didn't really add anything, just because... well, because they are Apple. Chrome is interesting, I use it sometimes (mostly when I'm just checking a quick thing in an older machine, and don't want to wait for Firefox or Seamonkey to load), but the Mozilla browsers are still more versatile. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #257: That would be because the software doesn't work. * TagZilla 0.0661 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org on Seamonkey 2.0 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
