Firefox and Thunderbird. I am sure most of internet users quite familiar with Mozilla products only when they heard these 2 names. But besides Firefox and Thunderbird, Mozilla also has one product called SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey is a web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple — all your Internet needs in one application.

Mozilla has just releasedSeaMonkey 1.0 Beta. This version is the first version released with the new product logo. (below).



For you that never heard of SeaMonkey, here are the features of SeaMonkey. One thing, for those who missed the Netscape user interface and looks, try SeaMonkey, it’s very Netscape look-alike application.

Navigator

Tabbed browsing gives you a better way to surf the net. You no longer have to open one page at a time. With tabbed browsing, open several pages at once with one click. Plus, your homepage can be multiple pages, in tabs.

Popup blocker lets you surf the web without interruption from annoying ads.

Image Manager lets you block images to remove offensive images or speed up the rendering of web sites.

Find as you type gives you another way to navigate a page. Just start typing to jump from link to link or to find a word or phrase within a page.

Plus all the features a modern browser should have including: Advanced security settings; Password, Download, and Cookie managers; Themes; multi-language and multi-platform support; and, the latest in Web Standards.

Mail & Newsgroups

Junk mail controls helps you take back control of your e-mail from spammers. SeaMonkey’s adaptive junk mail control gets smarter with use and is personalized to the e-mail that you receive.

Manage your mail with customizable Labels and Mail Views. Color code your e-mail to help you prioritize. Sort your mail with views to help you through your e-mail much faster.

Multiple Accounts support helps you manage all your mail through one interface.

SeaMonkey Messenger includes Enterprise ready features such as S/MIME, return receipts, Address Books, LDAP support, and digital signing.

Composer

SeaMonkey’s powerful yet simple HTML editor keeps getting better with dynamic image and table resizing, quick insert and delete of table cells, improved CSS support, and support for positioned layers. For all your documents and website projects, Composer is all you need.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dzulhelmi Jumat (nickname: Apek Friday) is the author of TechWebPress.com, and he's a Malaysian. He was born on 28th May 1981 in Johor Bahru, Johor. He graduated from Technology University Of Malaysia, with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science majoring in Industrial Computing. Apek worked as a System Analyst in EPSON and now he is an ICT Executive in one of prominent engineering company in Malaysia named United Engineering Malaysia (UEM). He is very interested in many subjects such as Technology,Arts,Entertainment and Internet (usually a person with Geimini zodiac will like many subjects that interest them). Besides this blog,he is also developing a few other blogs that will live on the net soon. Besides all of the above, Apek is also a web freelancer and has done some projects for his state community, a charity organization and also it former university.