On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, hawker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 personally use Thunderbird for mail/news and only use the browser of Seamonkey 1.1. The Multizilla extension is what keeps me, along with the fact that the UI (with modern theme) in Linux is faster than Firefox's (though the rendering engine in FF is faster), along with it being old habit (been using Seamonkey/Mozilla/Netscape since the beginning). All of my bookmarks, saved passwords etc are in Seamonkey, and I'm simply used to the way it looks and feels. So far, the faster UI + Multizilla has been enough to keep me with SM, and Firefox just does not "feel" right to me somehow, but now it's starting to get where some sites don't work properly, etc. For example I use Firefox for all of my banking sites, and some AJAX-heavy sites that don't work entirely properly in Seamonkey for whatever reason (Facebook, Google Sites, etc). Since Multizilla does not appear to be alive anymore the chances are I would switch to Firefox when I finally give up on SM 1.x series. So far *most* things still work fine in SM 1.x and until the day comes when I'm using it less than Firefox, or there is some killer feature to bring me to another browser, I'll probably keep using it. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
