Mozilla announces “Seamonkey” version 1.7 is the final release.

Posted March 17, 2005

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I admit, that I never really liked the Mozilla browser. It seemed big, gray, and ugly, and in terms of standards compliant testing, Firefox was much more appealing to the designer in me.

So even though maybe I should be more upset, I don’t really lament that Mozilla has announced that they are turning over development of their browser platform, called “Seamonkey” (Which I did not know until the other day) to the design community for upkeep. Their team will be instead working now exclusively on Firefox.

Version 1.7 was released quite a long time ago, and there was speculation that 1.8 would be released, but then Mozilla would need to support that version release also. Instead they will be working with the current versions and compatibility and will helping the push of Firefox to take over Microsoft in the browser wars.

If you would like to read more about the reasons behind the demise of Mozilla’s Seamonkey, you can visit their site to read the news release.