Philip Chee composed on 2016-04-14 20:52 (UTC+0800):
Ed Mullen wrote:
I know SM is derived from Firefox and Thunderbird.
Actually all three are descended from the old Mozilla Suite (a.k.a.
Netscape Communicator v6).
I don't agree entirely with that description. For those who weren't around
back then, NCv6, released late in 2000, was based on Mozilla 0.6. Some of us
were using any of the many Mozilla milestone releases up to more than a year
before the first official NCv6. NC bundled some AOL "extras" that Mozilla
users neither needed nor wanted.
> SeaMonkey is a direct descendant in terms of continuity.
In the sense Firefox 3 is a direct descendant of Firefox 2, that's true, but
the first SeaMonkey release constituted little but a name change for the
Mozilla Suite, forced AFAICR by the Mozilla Foundation to strengthen Firefox
status as the Project's replacement flagship, along with termination of the
suite as an official product of the Mozilla Project at 1.7.13.
IOW, NC, FF (first as Phoenix, then Firebird) & TB (and Galeon, Camino,
Epiphany and others) sprung from the suite, which SM was, and, evolved as has
been FF, is.
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