Software Update: Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.1 Beta 3

The Mozilla Foundation has released the third beta release of version 2.1 of SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite and consists of a web browser and programs for e-mailing and reading news. In addition, there is a simple HTML editor. Unlike the Mozilla Application Suite, SeaMonkey is maintained by the community, while the SeaMonkey Council oversees maintenance. The major changes made in this release can be found below.

What’s New in SeaMonkey 2.1 Beta 3

• When you start SeaMonkey in Safe Mode, you are now presented with a dialog that allows you to permanently apply some of the Safe Mode changes. Furthermore you can enter Safe Mode directly from the Help menu now.
• If a plugins crashes, you are now presented with several options right there (eg reloading the page).
• Built-in extensions (ChatZilla, JavaScript Debugger, DOM Inspector and DebugQA) are now installed into the profile.
• SeaMonkey Sync supports the easy setup process (J-PAKE) now.
• Windows 7 Jump Lists support was added.
• Outdated plugins are detected now.
• Tabs can now be switched using mouse scrolling (in addition to scrolling the tab bar).
• WebGL support via ANGLE has been added.
• An optional search bar (including suggestions if the search engine supports it) is available in browser toolbar customization, and an engine manager for OpenSearch is available.
• The delete action in the MailNews Advanced Search dialog has been fixed.
• Plugins now work in feeds shown in MailNews windows.
• ChatZilla is working again.
• The JavaScript Debugger Venkman is working again.
• Download progress is now shown in the Windows 7 taskbar.
• Cascaded Session Restore improves restoring large browsing sessions.

see the SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker blog for more details about the changes between those pre-releases.

the changes page lists an overview of new features and fixes relative to our last stable release, SeaMonkey 2.0.13.