rickman composed on 2017-06-09 18:15 (UTC-0400): > Richmond wrote: . >> rickman <[email protected]> writes: . >>> For that matter, why did SeaMonkey split off from T-bird? What was the >>> fundamental issue that created a new tool so similar to the old? . >> The way I remember it, Thunderbird (and Firefox) split off from >> Seamonkey. Seamonkey came from Netscape Communicator, which then became >> Mozilla Application Suite. . > So you are saying the split was a long time ago? I didn't realize. I > believe Netscape was a more universal tool with support for newsgroups, > email and web page composition. That's what I used to write my web page a > decade and a half ago. Maybe it's time for an update...? . The name seamonkey originally came from either Netscape Communicator or Netscape before it added "Communicator" to the name. But, Netscape was followed by the Mozilla Suite, the inception of the Mozilla Project. Firebird (later Firefox) and Thunderbird were split off from the Suite. After that split came the renaming of the Mozilla Suite to SeaMonkey.
Dates are from the content of 32-bit Linux downloads on archive.mozilla.org. Mozilla Milestone 3 1999-03 Mozilla Suite 0.6 2000-12 Mozilla Suite 1.0 2002-05 Firebird 0.7 2003-05 Thunderbird 0.1 2003-07 Firefox 0.8 2004-02 Firefox 1.0 2004-11 Thunderbird 1.0 2004-12 SeaMonkey 1.0 2006-01 Mozilla Suite 1.17.13 2006-04 (final) -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
