After years of development since 2006, the SeaMonkey Project has finally released SeaMonkey 2.0 and now available for free download. Great efforts have been made by a team of volunteers to take the successor of the Mozilla Suite to the next level. Since SeaMonkey 2.0 is building upon the same platform as Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0, it now shares many back-ends with them, including browsing (Gecko), messaging (MailNews) and other central technologies like XUL, Toolkit, the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine and more. Naturally their developers deserve our great appreciation and respect, too. In addition, it has been improved with

# feed support (including an RSS and Atom feed reader in the mail component),

# a modern look,

# restoration of browser tabs and windows after crashes or restarts,

# tabbed mail,

# automated updates, # smart history search from the location bar,

# faster JavaScript,

# HTML5 features (for example video and downloadable fonts),

# and even support for the Lightning calendar add-on (which will issue a beta for installation on SeaMonkey 2.0 in the next few weeks)

What's new in seamonkey 2.0

the major changes relative to SeaMonkey 1.1.18:

1- using the same internal as firfox 3.5.4 now. Due to these changes Seamonky is now much closer to firfox as far as user profiles, add-ons and functionality of user interface elements are concerned.

2.The new Add-on Manager allows to install, update, disable and remove extensions (add-ons), themes and plugins using the same mechanisms Firefox uses.

3- Session restore has been added.. Now, when SeaMonkey crashes, all your browser windows and tabs will be restored automatically or on request.

4-History is now stored in a better database solution.

5-The MailNews component now includes support for reading RSS and Atom feeds.

6-New IMAP accounts will now keep local offline copies by default, as a part of a number of speed improvements when working with IMAP. Synchronization can be disabled per account or for individual folders, and limited to the most recent messages in the Synchronization & Storage settings.

7-Tabbed Mail enables accounts, folders and even single messages to be opened in tabs inside the Mail & Newsgroups window.

8-Password Manager was switched to an improved version, allowing easier searching, and notification bars replacing modal dialogs for remembering logins.

9-Download Manager has been completely reworked, including support for cross-session resumable downloads.

10.A new form manager replaces all previous web form management, and automatically keeps a record of what you type into forms and presents you these options in a drop-down list when you come back.

11.Cookie Manager has been improved and now allows searching for cookies by a site and cookie name.

12-Gecko, the rendering engine used in SeaMonkey, has seen many improvements since the version used in the last stable release.SeaMonkey 2.0 passes the Acid2 test and most of Acid3 and includes all the HTML5 and other new web-facing features also included in Firefox 3.5, such as audio/video elements, downloadable fonts and JIT-compiled JavaScript.

13-Most of the icons in the default theme have been exchanged for newer images that fit better with the look of modern desktop environments.

14-The default theme on Mac OS X was completely renewed to better fit with the look of Leopard and Snow Leopard.

15-For extension developers, SMILE is introduced, making interfaces known from FUEL and STEEL also available in SeaMonkey.

16-# Support for Windows 95, 98, Me and NT 4 was dropped. GTK 2.10 or higher is now required on Linux/UNIX. Support for Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther") and 10.2 ("Jaguar") was also dropped. and for more details see this page

For downloading the Seamonkey project provides official versions of SeaMonkey 2.0 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in US English and other languages. Community volunteers are also contributing builds for other platforms. You can download SeaMonkey 2.0 here.