SillyDog701

[beanboy89]

The SeaMonkey Council has made available SeaMonkey 1.1a. Some new features include yellow highlight in the URL bar when visiting HTTPS sites, a tab tooltip preview, and inline notification of mipselled words in text boxes.

A full listing of new features is available in the release notes.

General

* ChatZilla has been updated to a newer version (Bug 324439)
* [Mac] Menus and menu popups use more native styling (Bug 301105)
* [Linux] When launching SeaMonkey, already-running instances are detected (Bug 122698)

Browser

* When you visit a secure site, the URL bar changes color to turns make security status more visible (Bug 335113)
* When using keyword URLs, it is no longer necessary to type "keyword:" (typing "keyword:" will no longer work). Just type the keyword name (Bug 337339)
* You can now drop URLs and bookmarks between existing tabs, which will result in a new tab being created where you dropped the URL (Bug 324591)
* When hovering on a tab, the tooltip now displays a preview of the tab's contents (Bug 315207)
* The search sidebar now behaves better (Bug 252802)
* The bookmarks menu and personal toolbar folder overflow menu now have context menus (Bug 50504)

Mail & Newsgroups

* Message labelling has been superceded by tagging, which provides much more than the original 5 labels and comes with new preferences (Bug 342560 and others)
* The preferences for junk mail have been modified to accomodate behavior changes (Bug 335846)
* Improved phishing detection (Bug 326082 and others)
* [Linux, Mac] New mail notification has been improved (Bug 327613, 305384, and others)

Downloads:
Windows installer
Windows zipfile
Linux tar.gz
Mac OS X disk image

FTP Directory

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 SeaMonkey/1.1a

[Edward]

Trying it out right now.

I like the new mail notification window that scrolls up from the lower right corner of the screen, up to now, I only saw this with the Windows release.

The address (URL) bar changes to yellow when on a secure web site (https://).

The Linux release has an improved startup script.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060823 SeaMonkey/1.1a

[Lorraine]

Just wondering if this version of SeaMonkey is stable?
I notice the 1.1a is the last version for SeaMonkey in here and was posted a few months ago. Is it dead or what?
Enquiring minds want to know

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[DJGM]

Lorraine,

The latest stable version of SeaMonkey is v1.0.5, while v1.1a is the first official test build of the next major release.
SeaMonkey v1.1a is mainly for developers and testers, although regular end users are welcome to try it out too.

If you're not into testing pre-beta software that may be full of bugs, and crash a lot, stick with v1.0.x for now.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5

[Edward]

I've been testing out the "nightlies" (also for testers/developers) of 1.0.6 for a while now and haven't encountered any problems. It would seem that 1.0.6 would be released before 1.1 is.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6