Seamonkey and Firefox

The Seamonkey project took off where the old Netscape Internet Suite left off. Seamonkey provides four applications in one program: A Firefox-based Web browser A Thunderbird-based email client, Usenet reader and RSS feed reader A WYSIWYG Web page editor named Composer An IRC client named Chatzilla The advantage of using Seamonkey, over Firefox and Thunderbird separately, is speed. Web links in the Seamonkey email client are instantly loaded in the Seamonkey browser. Similarly, mail links in the Seamonkey browser are instantly handled by the Seamonkey mail client. Add-ons written for Firefox and Thunderbird mostly work without a problem in Seamonkey.

Seamonkey does not have the many quirks that Firefox has of late chosen to annoy its fans with. For example, when Firefox gets opened after clicking a Web link in some program, it will not display the page immediately, but will instead be busy updating all its add-ons first!

Seamonkey stores all its settings and data (including e-mail and bookmarks) in the ~/.mozilla/Seamonkey directory. If you are moving to a new Linux installation, just copy this directory to the .mozilla directory of the new ‘home’ directory. As Seamonkey (or Thunderbird) is also available for Windows, it is easy to import mail from Windows-based e-mail clients such as Outlook. The imported mail (mbox files) can then be easily moved to the Linux OS.