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"The Mozilla suite is outdated and insecure nowadays", tells Robert Kaiser of the project-leading SeaMonkey Council, "In the recent months, the list of known security vulnerabilities grew,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"The Mozilla suite is outdated and insecure nowadays", tells Robert Kaiser of the project-leading SeaMonkey Council, "In the recent months, the list of known security vulnerabilities grew,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 on 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."
"We offer those users to stay the more familiar suite style with SeaMonkey 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.
SeaMonkey is an Open-Source community project within the mozilla.org software family.
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