Software Update: Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.2

The final release of version 2.1 of SeaMonkey was released on Friday. SeaMonkey is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite and consists of a web browser and programs for e-mailing, reading news and a simple HTML editor. Unlike the Mozilla Application Suite, SeaMonkey is maintained by the community, while the SeaMonkey Council oversees maintenance. The main changes made since version 2.1 can be found below.

SeaMonkey 2.2

The SeaMonkey project is proud to present SeaMonkey 2.2: The new major release of the all-in-one Internet suite is available for download now! Building on the same Mozilla platform as the newest Firefox release, it delivers the latest developments in web technologies such as HTML5, hardware acceleration and improved JavaScript speed.

SeaMonkey 2.2 is available in 21 languages, for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Most notably, this release features for the first time:

• Added support for CSS animations.
• Tuned HTTP idle connection logic for increased performance.
• Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance.
• Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas.
• Improved spell checking for some locales.
• WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures.
• Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance.
• Fixed several stability issues.
• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several high visibility usability issues from SeaMonkey 2.1.

For a more complete list of major changes in SeaMonkey 2.2, see the What’s New in SeaMonkey 2.2 section of the Release Notes, which also contain a list of known issues and answers to frequently asked questions. For a more general overview of the SeaMonkey project (and screen shots!), visit www.seamonkey-project.org.