Let's start with a translation of this four years old post: https://diasp.org/posts/3834747
Seamonkey, Mozilla's hidden child
There is not much buzz about Seamonkey, which is not a well known browser but yet full of qualities. This is the legacy of the old Mozilla suite, which at the time included a web browser, an email client, and other things. Seamonkey is the independent resumption of this project since Mozilla devoted itself to Firefox and Thunderbird.
The software therefore consists of a Web browser equipped with Gecko, an e-mail client, an address book and an IRC client. The whole is extensible and based on modern technologies imported from other Mozilla products.
What I particularly like about Seamonkey is that the user interface is classic. In fact, it has hardly moved since the time of the Mozilla suite. We always have a menu bar and item bars that we can customize at will. The bars can be retracted and removed. Themes management is available. It is less flashy than the latest Firefox whose visual aspect frustrates me.
Seamonkey takes up in a very classical way the canons of the old Mozilla, but behind it there are modern technologies hidden and subtle evolutions like the recent Gecko engine, the synchronization of the bookmarks or the address bar which also makes searches.
Update: Recent versions do not include the IRC client (ChatZilla), but it can be installed as an extension.
So far, so good... Is the project still alive? Yes!
http://www.seamonkey-project.org // Project News // July 27, 2018 // SeaMonkey 2.49.4 released
Let's give it a try!
There are downloads on the official site or there are also unofficial builds available here:
http://www.wg9s.com/comm-257/
Consider - As it says on this page: "the official Linux builds only require glibc version 2.12 (libc-2.12.so) and stdcxx version 3.4.16 (libstdc++.so.6.0.16) or later, the Linux builds provided on wg9s.com require glibc version 2.18 (libc-2.18.so) and stdcxx version 3.4.23 (libstdc++.so.6.0.23) or later."
Check:
- strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBCXX
I'm not sure about Ubuntu, but on Debian Stretch it's GLIBCXX 3.4.22 atm (if I'm not mistaken the wg9s build won't work).
After downloading and extracting the file (which is around 50 MB) from seamonkey-project.org some more packages are required to get it run (after reading the error messages these were the ones I could identify):
- sudo apt install libstdc++-6-dev
- sudo apt install lib32stdc++6
- sudo apt install libgtk-3-0:i386
- sudo apt install libasound2:i386
- sudo apt install libdbus-glib-1-2:i386
- sudo apt install libxt6:i386
Seamonkey starts fine from userspace (did not work for me from /opt/seamonkey).
It looks a bit outdated but actually I don't mind as the theme can be changed anyway. Btw Seamonkey is the default browser on the distros LXLE and Puppy.
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