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"The Mozilla suite is outdated and insecure nowadays", tells Robert Kaiser of the project-leading SeaMonkey Council, "In recent months the list of known security vulnerabilities has grown, but development has stopped on the 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"The Mozilla suite is outdated and insecure nowadays", tells Robert Kaiser of the project-leading SeaMonkey Council, "In recent months the list of known security vulnerabilities has grown, but development has stopped on the 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 had taken over development of the suite from Mozilla Foundation in March 2005. Mozilla Foundation focuses on development of the stand-alone Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail clients, which it promotes as additional supported upgrade paths for users of the old Mozilla suite.
The name change was needed to officially show that a group of dedicated volunteers had taken over development of the suite from Mozilla Foundation in March 2005. Mozilla Foundation is focusing on development of the stand-alone Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail clients, which it promotes as additional supported upgrade paths for users of the old Mozilla suite.


"With SeaMonkey we offer the Mozilla suite users a way to stay with the more familiar suite style instead of switching to differently working stand-alone applications", says Robert Kaiser, pointing to www.seamonkey-project.org for detailed information and downloads.
"With SeaMonkey we offer the Mozilla suite users a way to stay with the more familiar suite style instead of switching to differently working stand-alone applications", says Robert Kaiser, pointing to www.seamonkey-project.org for detailed information and downloads.
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