Mozilla’s SeaMonkey 2.0 now available for download

Mozilla just released SeaMonkey 2.0 and is now available for downloads to interesting individuals who wants to be free with their old mail clients. Version 2.0 now uses the same internal platform as Firefox 3.5.4 in terms of add-ons and functionality of user interface. For newbies around who’ll be using SeaMonkey 2.0 you’ll be having no trouble learning how to use the system, it would take some time to get used of some settings but since it now uses the same internal platform as Firefox it’s much easier now. The tabbed viewing in Firefox is also applicable to SeaMonkey 2.0 and with built in crash recovery you don’t need to worry about the long data inputs in web forms being lost.

Here’s some of the notable changes in the new release of SeaMonkey 2.0

1. Toolbars in the browser, main MailNews and message compose windows are now fully customizable, including icon size and whether to display icons and/or text for every major toolbar, all available via their context menus.
2. 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.
3. Password Manager was switched to an improved version, allowing easier searching, and notification bars replacing modal dialogs for remembering logins.
4. Download Manager has been completely reworked, including support for cross-session resumable downloads.
5. Gecko, the rendering engine used in SeaMonkey, has seen many improvements since the version used in the last stable release. Changes range from a better graphics backend (Cairo/Thebes) to improved support for fonts, CSS, DOM and JavaScript. 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.
6. For extension developers, SMILE is introduced, making interfaces known from FUEL and STEEL also available in SeaMonkey.