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@roka I've been waiting for someone to spoonfeed me what I should replace firefox with and Seamonkey does look promising! But can you tell me some more? Is it botnet free? Is it well maintained? Who are the people working on it?
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@ayy Seamonkey is a community-maintained continuation of Mozilla Suite (which itself was a continuation of Netscape Navigator) which Firefox and Thunderbird were forked from. It is hosted on Mozilla servers and is built directly from the Gecko source tree - thus it benefits from updates to the engine. It is actively maintained but versions are released rarer than current Firefox schedule (more along the lines of Firefox release schedule from before Chrome) - latest 2.48 is a functional equivalent of Firefox 51 (rule of decimal + 3). Note that it doesn't use Australis and some addons might not be compatible with it - some addon devs don't bother testing against Seamonkey at all and just don't mark them as compatible in the first place. Thankfully there is a converter available (http://addonconverter.fotokraina.com/) but it's a hit or miss.
Note that Seamonkey lives with XUL and its purge by Mozilla will cause problems. For now, they intend to switch to ESR Gecko at least (https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2017/05/02/the-state-of-the-seamonkey-union/)
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