Reviews of SeaMonkey for Windows

1. 
   woollenmillie

   Reviewing 2.0.1 (Jan 5, 2010)

   Love my Seamonkey! - with Adblock Plus, Flashgot (& Orbit) for downloads, googlebar, pipelining enabled, and tweaked with CB mozilla optimizer it's fast & has everything I want to hand when I need it like no other browser (though the very excellent Orca Browser comes pretty close).
   
   Still running 1.1.18, though, since the Dev team dropped the 'Classic' theme in SM2 for some unfathomable reason. Why???
   
   Bring back 'Classic'...please!!!
2. 
   bobbyp

   Reviewing 2.0.1 (Dec 16, 2009)

   I've tried a lot of browsers but it's for me the BEST.
3. 
   JWvanLohuizen

   Reviewing 2.0.1 (Dec 15, 2009)

   Well Artem,
   
   It just goes to show you how ignorant you are. I hate web mail and I organize my email into hundreds of sub-folders and dozens of email filters which Seamonkey2 only partially imported. I have 8 email address that download into my email client and I have thousands of email addresses in my offline Address Book.
   
   I also am painfully aware and my point exactly, the developers of of SM are too few and are too enamored with their ability to write code and maintain servers than to make a seriously good browser that works more than it fails. After hearing that they were not going to allow importing from SM1 after the initial release, I decided time was up!
   
   I spent the weekend importing into Firefox and Thunderbird and with a few exceptions I am very happy with the result, (and yes they are not perfect, but much, much, much closer).
   
   No more waiting endlessly for updates that don't happen. No more waiting and waiting for solutions to problems that in many cases I will never see because they are fixed prior to release instead of discovering them after release. And Finally no more only getting security fixes (SM1) when major fixes needed to be made that aren't addressed in SM2 and with their track record never will. Besides many websites don't work with SM2 and they will not correct them to make them work. I am left with having to ask for help with CSS and even then it is on a per web page basis, and why should they when they do work in Firefox which is 3 years or a lifetime ahead of SM2, and just about to release another major release.
   
   When I say that I have been using Mozilla products since the early days. I mean it. I used the Mozilla client and then moved to Nestcape and then back to the Mozilla client that became Seamonkey-- religiously. I was always a supporter but I never could find anyone willing to talk with me except one time when I submitted a bug in bugzilla. I was told it was in the wrong place, but instead of getting help, they dumped it and told me to start over (never even telling me what I did wrong). Years after that I got 2 replies from Robert Kaiser after a year of waiting for a response to a polite request about SM1 and after responding to my direct email he went in to my request and promptly closed it and said we are not going that way. Since then I asked him for help about not getting help in the forum and all he said was, "he was too busy to go to the forum and get help there". OK, I do get being busy, but sending me back to the place that I didn't get help in the first place without even acknowledging my problem...
   
   I also have helped other software developers improve their programs and so don't think I only complain. But yes, if I get nowhere with something that could be great with a little help instead of mediocre then I do my best to keep coming up with ideas and encourage. But you ignore me and refuse to help me, then you get nothing, if you aren't worth it and flames if you are.
   
   There are a huge amount of problems reported in the forum and I even gave some points on work arounds, myself. I also made a number of detailed suggestions and got NO response on anyone of them.
   
   However, I gave up after I got no response to no fewer that 3 requests for help migrating.
   
   No I am on to better things. PLEASE DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME and download the stable and inventive Firefox and Thunderbird instead. (Even if they are separate programs, I have only seen the need one time for combined programs, but having to open a 2nd program that works is well worth it).
4. 
   Artem Tashkinov

   Reviewing 2.0.1 (Dec 15, 2009)

   To JWvanLohuizen:
   
   You are COMPLETELY off track. SeaMonkey is now developed by FEW developers where:
   
   IE has over 300 people in its development team
   Fx, Safari, Opera and Chrome have over 70 people in their development teams.
   
   Stop whining and use something else if you don't like SeaMonkey's approach which many people prefer over stand alone browser and stand alone mail client. I also bet that you only use a web mail, so you don't need SeaMonkey at all.
5. 
   JWvanLohuizen

   Reviewing 2.0 (Nov 28, 2009)

   This software is outdated and miles behind most current browsers. The developers do not help people fix their problems but instead rely on other users to do it with very mixed results. I have asked for help over and over again and again but the only response I got was a question that related to why I did something but no one responded to my urgent question on passwords and other issues.
   
   Skip this one and go to Firefox and Thunderbird. I will be moving all 15 years of collected stuff over the long break in December.
   
   It is sad because all the work is really for naught when you have to manually copy your email and some settings while other things won't work no matter how hard you try. I have been using Mozilla since the days of early Mozilla Suite and Netscape, but when a product is tired and years behind the competition and only have a very small community that still cares about this product then they will never have the time to make it what it needs to be to compete.
   
   Arrogance and lack of ability has made this software a dinosaur.

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