17th November 2006, 10:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 17th November 2006, 11:09 PM by A Black Falcon.)
First, the sound doesn't work for me in Firefox either. While Mozilla just does nothing, Firefox says I need a plugin to play some content on the page, then says I need Quicktime and that I need to manually install it, and then sends me to a page where it says I need Windows 2000/XP to get the required version of Quicktime. Thanks, Apple! :)
(for some reason though the audio plays just fine in IE...)
As for SeaMonkey, It's Mozilla's new name, essentially. Firefox, as I've said before, is Internet Explorer for Internet Explorer users, with a few additions that make it slightly better in a few ways than IE. SeaMonkey, on the other hand, is the decendant of the Mozilla Suite, and as such is a far superior browser for anyone who is a Netscape, and not an IE, person. I am, and as don't like Firefox much at all... when support for Mozilla (Suite) ended I wasn't sure what browser to go to next, but then I discovered that SeaMonkey wasn't just a new browser kind of like Mozilla, it WAS Mozilla, just with a new name and logo, and was happy. :)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Firefox
+: runs a slightly newer version of integrated Windows Media Player than SeaMonkey does (more compatible with a few stupid sites' in-page videos)
+: loads slightly more quickly (nearly irrelevant when you just leave it running all the time)
-: interface realigned to have menus that look and are laid out like IE's. The design and style just isn't Mozilla! (poor look and feel, bad design from a Netscape/Mozilla user's perspective)
-: skin like IE's with no option to have the Netscape 6/7/Mozilla skin instead (a great skin I came to really like. Some users tried to make optional skins, but the results were not so great. No official option.)
-: removal of lots of features. Some can be restored with plugins, some just with external programs. (some of the preferences options, the included irc client, webpage editor, "new tab" button on the right end of the tab bar, various aspects of the onscreen display, etc, etc...
-: And other things.
In short, "Why get used to something worse when a better alternative exists?"
(for some reason though the audio plays just fine in IE...)
As for SeaMonkey, It's Mozilla's new name, essentially. Firefox, as I've said before, is Internet Explorer for Internet Explorer users, with a few additions that make it slightly better in a few ways than IE. SeaMonkey, on the other hand, is the decendant of the Mozilla Suite, and as such is a far superior browser for anyone who is a Netscape, and not an IE, person. I am, and as don't like Firefox much at all... when support for Mozilla (Suite) ended I wasn't sure what browser to go to next, but then I discovered that SeaMonkey wasn't just a new browser kind of like Mozilla, it WAS Mozilla, just with a new name and logo, and was happy. :)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Firefox
+: runs a slightly newer version of integrated Windows Media Player than SeaMonkey does (more compatible with a few stupid sites' in-page videos)
+: loads slightly more quickly (nearly irrelevant when you just leave it running all the time)
-: interface realigned to have menus that look and are laid out like IE's. The design and style just isn't Mozilla! (poor look and feel, bad design from a Netscape/Mozilla user's perspective)
-: skin like IE's with no option to have the Netscape 6/7/Mozilla skin instead (a great skin I came to really like. Some users tried to make optional skins, but the results were not so great. No official option.)
-: removal of lots of features. Some can be restored with plugins, some just with external programs. (some of the preferences options, the included irc client, webpage editor, "new tab" button on the right end of the tab bar, various aspects of the onscreen display, etc, etc...
-: And other things.
In short, "Why get used to something worse when a better alternative exists?"
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