Hello Guido and others, Yes, I've been having great results SeaMonkey so far. I can FINALLY browse the Web and check my e-mail at the same time. With Firefox and Thunderbird both already open, it would often take as much as 45 SECONDS just to switch windows from Firefox to Thunderbird, with my hard drive thrashing furiously. This was running XFCE on a computer with 128MB RAM, absolutely unacceptable. But with SeaMonkey, I don't even need to have the email client on SeaMonkey open to be notified of new mail, the e-mail button on the bottom right-hand corner of the web browser changes its icon when a new message arrives, and I can click on it and launch the email program rather quickly. Also, I can goto File-->New-->Message and open an e-mail composer window right from the browser. The address book is available right from the browser, without having to switch programs. The address book for SeaMonkey (and Thunderbird) with autocompletion of entries upon addressing a new message is absolutely superb, it's the main reason I use Mozilla e-mail products. Additionally, the browser and e-mail client integrate well, clicking on a link in e-mail makes the browser fly open (With TB + FF, this process takes FOREVER) and mailto: links in website pop up a composer window, with little delay. With FF + TB, mailto: links don't even work unless you add a new variable to about:config in FF, and then it is SLOW to the point of being unusable.
Overall, I'm not going back to Firefox or Thunderbird anytime soon, unless they drastically reduce their memory usage and integrate better. I think that Xubuntu should at least recommend SeaMonkey in its documentation, and allow an easy way to set sensible-browser to SeaMonkey, if the user chooses to install it. -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
