SeaMonkey:Scratchpad:Migration Announcement

The SeaMonkey team wants to get the word out publicly 1) that Mozilla suite users should upgrade and 2) that the SeaMonkey project exists and what it is.

We want to get this out to the press in all regions where we have our software available in local languages, which means that we're 1) asking our SeaMonkey L10n teams to localize this announcement and 2) asking peers in all local communities to send this out to the local press.

Original (English, US) version

SeaMonkey project urges Mozilla users to upgrade

Two years after the end-of-line announcement for the Mozilla Application suite, 10 months after its last security update and more than a year after the first release of its successor, the SeaMonkey team tries to win over people who are still using this Internet suite software.

"The Mozilla suite is outdated and insecure nowadays", tells Robert Kaiser of the project-leading SeaMonkey Council, "In the recent months, the list of known security vulnerabilites grew, but development has stopped on that Mozilla-branded suite. There is a successor with the same browser/mail/composer/chat combination, improved functionality, and a steady flow of security updates - just under a different name: SeaMonkey."

The name change was needed to officially show that a group of dedicated volunteers took over suite development in March 2005 from Mozilla Foundation, which focuses and development of the stand-alone Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail clients, which it also promotes as supported upgrade paths for users of the old Mozilla suite.

"We offer those users to stay the more familiar suite style with SeaMonkey though instead of switching to differently working stand-alone applications", says Robert Kaiser, pointing to www.seamonkey-project.org for detailed information and downloads. "Security is very important on the Internet, so you should use software that gets updated for security problem regularly. Additionally, choice and innovation are goals of the Mozilla community, and as members of that community, we offer all that to Mozilla users through the SeaMonkey project."

SeaMonkey is an Open-Source community project within the mozilla.org software family.