SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 3

SeaMonkey 2.0 Alpha 3 offers you a tool which can be used for your network. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite".

Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" and have it stable enough for corporate use.

SeaMonkey - Web-browser, IRC chat client, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client and HTML editing made simple - all your Internet needs in one application brought to you by Mozilla.

Major Features:

1. a reworked history database for storing more visited pages, which also allows for improved and smarter presentation of search results when typing in the location bar,
2. improved password management, enabling easier searching and no longer getting in the way of browsing any more as it now avoids popping up dialogs,
3. fully customizable browser toolbars,
4. a feature for crash recovery and restoration of previous sessions,
5. and a large number of smaller improvements.

 Enhancements:

1. SeaMonkey switched to Toolkit, the same backend Firefox uses internally. Due to this change SeaMonkey is now much closer to Firefox as far as user profiles, add-ons and functionality of user interface elements are concerned.
2. The default location of user profiles has changed. Legacy profiles, e.g. from SeaMonkey 1.x, are migrated automatically, excluding third-party add-ons (extensions and themes). The old profile will not be touched (instead, copies are made).
3. The new Add-on Manager allows to install, update, disable and remove extensions (add-ons), themes and plugins using the same mechanisms Firefox uses. This should ease extension management and development considerably.
4. Session restore (crash recovery) has been added. Now, when SeaMonkey crashes, all your browser windows and tabs will be restored automatically or on request (including data entered in web forms!). In addition, users can select to always restore the browser windows and tabs from their last open session when starting SeaMonkey.
5. History is now stored in a better database solution, so that it can easily keep more information, and the location bar determines which addresses to autocomplete and/or show in the drop down menu with a smarter algorithm based on what you type, searching in both URL and title of visited pages by default.
6. Toolbars in the browser component are now fully customizable.
7. Additionally, the icon size and whether to display icons and/or text can be chosen separately for every major toolbar in in both the browser and MailNews components via their context menu.
8. The MailNews component now includes support for reading RSS and Atom feeds, And the browser detects feeds offered by web pages. Since the support for previewing feeds in the browser has not yet been included, the feed icon at the right end of the URL bar currently is directly invoking subscription to the feed in the MailNews component, if an account for feeds has already been created there.
9. Password Manager was switched to an improved version, allowing easier searching, and notification bars replacing modal dialogs for remembering logins.
10. 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 Alpha 3 passes the Acid2 test and most of Acid3.
11. Most of the icons in the default theme have been exchanged for newer images that fit better with the look of modern desktop environments.
12. Support for Windows 95, 98, Me and NT 4 was dropped. GTK 2.10 is now required on Linux/UNIX. Support for Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther") was also dropped.
13. Add Undo Close Tab 
14. Introduce Info Bars (e.g. used when popups or add-on installations are blocked)
15. Allow to reload individual images using the context menu to aid dialup users canceling page loads
16. Remove the font download dialog 
17. Add full zoom capability (zooming images and objects as well as text) 
18. Port new Firefox page info to SeaMonkey
19. Beautify FTP/File/Jar/Gopher directory listing (with new layout, icons and sortable columns) 
20. Add "Send This Link" to link context menus 
21. Save form inputs' state with Save Page As
22. Switched to a better graphics backend (Cairo/Thebes), improving display of all web content and application chrome significantly 
23. Acid2 test renders correctly in most cases 
24. Lots of improvements to Acid3 test rendering
25. Support WHATWG and tags
26. Implement cross-site XMLHttpRequest 
27. @font-face support: implement downloadable font support on Linux (Mac and Windows have already been addressed in bug 441473), implement @font-face { src:local() } on Linux , enable downloadable .otf fonts on Windows, improve handling of format hints for downloadable fonts 
28. Toolbar customization: Navigator part 2 (real customizability for browser toolbars on Linux+Windows), use sheet popup instead of popup window on Mac OS X, make menubars customizable (without regression on Mac OS X)
29. Use Places backend for SeaMonkey history (including location bar)
30. Implement progress bar/scrubber for video controls 
31. Decode non-ASCII characters in the urlbar (like in FF3)
32. Rename TLS and SSL in SMTP preferences to what they really mean (STARTTLS, SMTP-over-SSL)
33. Make Reply, Reply All, Forward and Next buttons dual-mode (adding Reply to Sender, Reply to All Recipients, Forward Inline/As Attachment, Next Message/Flagged Message/Unread Thread)
34. Do not lose keystrokes while email composer is saving draft 
35. Speed up deleting attachments containing UNIX line breaks 
36. Add "Stop Filter Execution" filter action 
37. Allow to set marking junk as read independently for automatic and manual cases in preferences 
38. Do not fall back to insecure authentication after SMTP authentication failure 
39. Support opening a message from the command line 
40. Remove "Copy Folder Location" context menu entry, moving functionality to Location field in Properties dialog
41. Add ability to select IMAP trash folder 
42. Allow user to reorder newsgroups using drag&drop (like in NS4) 
43. Display clickable references for newsgroup messages 
44. Show new newsgroups in Subscribe dialog
45. Spell check the subject line when composing mail 
46. Show folder address in Folder Properties dialog
47. Implement mail "back" and "forward" 
48. Make local body search work when mail body is encoded as Base64 
49. Show text in multipart messages with empty Content-Type (sent by Outlook) 
50. Allow to filter news based on any headers 
51. Make delete message work if header of message preview pane has focus 
52. Allow to do a complete import (settings, mail etc.) at any time 
53. Get rid of the Send in UTF-8 question dialog, just silently switch to UTF-8 if necessary 
54. Allow to kill/ignore a news subthread (branch, not the whole thread)
55. Add "Recent Folder Target" to Move and Copy menus 
56. Allow renaming of already-attached attachments 
57. Make sure IMAP code does not deadlock when it cannot reach the network 
58. Persist message priority across moves after changing it via filter 
59. Add a pref to decide whether to quote text attachments in replies 
60. Limit growth of junk token store (and thereby memory)
61. Speed up displaying saved searches with lots of results 
62. Add a way to entirely disable marking a message as read when viewed 
63. Add ability to show only IMAP mails that have not been deleted
64. Load IMAP/news messages from memory (if present) when offline
65. Use better chunk size calculation when mail.imap.fetch_by_chunks is active (speed up sending of large emails)
66. Quote just the selected portion of a message during Reply 
67. Allow signature to be placed above the quoted text when forwarding messages 
68. Improve online IMAP experience by using pseudo-offline Delete and Move (decouple IMAP operations from UI changes) 
69. Allow filter of "To or CC" to use "is in Address Book..." and "is not in Address Book..."
70. Make Get All New Messages work with Movemail accounts 
71. Enable filters to move mail after copying it 
72. Add confirmation dialog for Empty Trash action 
73. Rename 'Unsent' folder to 'Outbox' 
74. Allow to specify whether to run filters when checking mail, run manually, or both (add a separate manual filter context)
75. Add ability to filter only selected messages in a folder (Run Filters on Selected Messages) 
76. Play back tags to IMAP server when switching from offline to online
77. Add ability to show just the name and not the email address in the message pane
78. Allow to change IMAP expunge threshold using a pref 
79. Implement auto-expunge for IMAP mailboxes 
80. Enable Mac OS X system address book per default and add UI 
81. Disable JavaScript in MailNews for now 
82. Make IMAP folders offline by default if they are newly created and mail.server.default.offline_download pref is true
83. Add ability to download IMAP messages preemptively/automatically in the background
84. Add birthday fields to address book 
85. Enable threaded/grouped-by-sort views for saved searches across multiple folders 
86. Fix importing mail from Outlook 2003/2007
87. Port Thunderbird RSS/Atom reader to SeaMonkey
88. Allow extensions to add custom filter actions
89. Mark message as read when deleting it from local folder (or POP/IMAP when offline)
90. Do not collect addresses into Collected Addressed that occur in other ABs 
91. Implement Undo Mark All Read
92. Move message to Inbox if user marks a message in Junk folder as Not Junk (adds hidden pref mail.spam.markAsNotJunkMarksUnRead) )
93. Disable JS for message content (mail and news, making javascript.allow.mailnews pref stop working), enable it for non-message content by default  

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