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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.
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"The Mozilla suite is outdated and insecure nowadays", tells Robert Kaiser of the project-leading SeaMonkey Council, "In the recent months, the list of known security vulnerabilites grew,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"The Mozilla suite is outdated and insecure nowadays", tells Robert Kaiser of the project-leading SeaMonkey Council, "In the recent months, the list of known security vulnerabilities grew,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.
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.
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