A new development branch of SeaMonkey has been released

Apr 11, 2014 13:40 GMT  ·  By

SeaMonkey, a complete Internet suite featuring a web browser, an email client, and even a full HTML editing solution, has been promoted to version 2.26 Beta 1 and is available for testing.

SeaMonkey is a project built on Firefox, but the developers also implement a lot of their own features and options. Usually, the new branches of SeaMonkey also bring major changes and improvements.

For example, newsgroup names can now be entered using autocompletion, the Gamepad API has been finalized and enabled, navigator.plugins is no longer enumerable (very useful for privacy), the ECMAScript Internationalization API has been enabled, and “box-sizing” (dropping the -moz- prefix) has been implemented.

Also, SharedWorker is now enabled by default in SeaMonkey, a number of CSS3 variables have been added, the console object is now available in Web Workers, <input type=“number”> has been implemented and enabled, and a several stability issues have been fixed.

It's very likely that the most stable version of SeaMonkey will be released after the next Mozilla Firefox 29 stable is made available.

More details about this version can be found in the official announcement. Download SeaMonkey 2.26 Beta 1 right now from Softpedia.

Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.