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"The Mozilla suite is outdated and insecure nowadays", tells Robert Kaiser of the project-leading SeaMonkey Council, "In recent months the list of known security vulnerabilities has grown,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 | "The Mozilla suite is outdated and insecure nowadays", tells Robert Kaiser of the project-leading SeaMonkey Council, "In recent months the list of known security vulnerabilities has grown,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