(Mozilla with the default theme usually ran fine on my old AMD K6/2 system, so I mean….they clearly weren’t the only problem here.)īy the time Microsoft had a theming engine in Windows XP, running Netscape 6/7 on it looked even worse, because they looked like two clown cars with a different paint job crashed into each other.Īfter AOL divested itself of Mozilla, Blake Ross (who left to work at Facebook) and David Hyatt (who left for Apple, to work on Safari) spun off the far less capable Firefox browser, whose selling point was ease-of-use for people who couldn’t figure out how to use an Internet Suite. One of the things AOL pressured Mozilla to do was create a “theming engine” that had performance problems on everything it ran on, especially the “Modern” theme (which Netscape made their default), and especially on Windows, where the majority of reviewers would be evaluating it. Honestly, it’s the ugliest operating system of its time in any decade, but that’s an aside. Microsoft Windows, especially in the 1990s, was really really ugly to look at. This, only to get booed in the tech media as a “bloated program that crashes all the time”. Meanwhile, AOL made a series of unforced errors, including pressuring Mozilla to declare something “stable” and then finally giving up and basing Netscape “6” on something that was clearly not ready for average users and throwing a multi-million dollar advertising budget behind it. We knew that “Mozilla” was a fully functional browser sans AOL crap, so why use something from AOL? End users should go to Netscape.” warning.
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The “done thing” by people like me was to just grab a new nightly build and install it every once in a while manually to get at the latest new features in “Mozilla” as the Suite was commonly referred to, happily ignoring the “This is just for testing. (Which seemed to be their only concrete business plan for anything they took over, including another of my favorite programs, Winamp.)
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This is because many people, myself included, saw no point at all in using Netscape’s version of “Mozilla Suite” (SeaMonkey’s original name) and started following Mozilla Suite instead, because the browser was open source, highly Web Standards compliant, and packed full of features.ĪOL turned these releases into “Netscape 6/7” by adding proprietary software (useless) and a bunch of garbage bookmarks to shopping sites, and having their setup program put icons for “Free AOL Trial” on your desktop. (It was not on solid footing following Microsoft’s attack on the original company, which is what made AOL decide to buy it out as a distressed asset.) It was also SeaMonkey that caused AOL’s iteration of Netscape Corporation to go ahead and collapse. Ironically, it was Firefox that was forked from SeaMonkey. The program is based on a forked version of the Gecko Web engine that Firefox uses. I installed version 2.53.13 as packaged in Fedora GNU/Linux 36. T he SeaMonkey Web Browser and Internet Suite (Web page editor, Mail and News client, and ChatZilla for IRC) is still producing releases. Guest post by Ryan, reprinted with permission from the original Posted in Free/Libre Software, Standard at 5:32 pm by Guest Editorial Team 07.23.22 Gemini version available ♊︎ The SeaMonkey Internet Suite is Still Developed.
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