SeaMonkey

: For the kind of brine shrimp, see Sea-Monkey.

SeaMonkey is a computer software product that is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite. SeaMonkey is community-driven, in contrast to the Mozilla suite, whose stable 1.7 branch remains governed by the Mozilla Foundation. The new project-leading group is the SeaMonkey Council.

=History=

On March 10, 2005, the Mozilla Foundation announced that they would not release any further official versions of the suite beyond 1.7.x, since they are now focused on the standalone applications Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. However, the foundation emphasized that they would still provide infrastructure for community members who wished to continue development. In effect, this means that the suite will still continue to be developed, but now by the SeaMonkey Council instead of the Mozilla Foundation.

==Naming==

To avoid confusing organizations that still want to use the original Mozilla Suite, the new product needed a new name. On April 1, 2005, it was announced that the new name was Allizom ( Mozilla spelled backward), but this was admitted to be an April Fool s Day joke on the next day. With the July 2, 2005 announcement, SeaMonkey officially became the name of the Internet suite that will supersede the Mozilla Suite.

SeaMonkey was formerly used by the Mozilla Foundation as the code name of the Mozilla Suite itself. The SeaMonkey Council is in the process of trademarking the name, with help from the Mozilla Foundation. It will also use a separate numbering scheme, with the first release being called SeaMonkey 1.0. Despite having a different name and version number, SeaMonkey 1.0 is based on the same code as Mozilla 1.8.

The choice of SeaMonkey as the official name of the follow-up project has drawn criticism from some long-time users and testers of the Mozilla Suite, as many would have preferred the continued use of the name Mozilla or Mozilla Suite . However, the Mozilla Foundation has stated that the name change was necessary in order to differentiate the new independent project from official projects and products of the foundation.

=References=

*Mozilla Foundation ( . *MozillaZine ( . *Adot s Notblog ( . *SeaMonkey Council ( .

=See also=

*Mozilla Application Suite *List of web browsers *List of email clients *List of news clients *List of HTML editors *List of IRC clients *Comparison of web browsers *Comparison of email clients *Comparison of news clients *Comparison of HTML editors *Comparison of IRC clients

=External links=

*[http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ The SeaMonkey Project] *[http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Home_Page SeaMonkey Wiki]