SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite

Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by sharpshadow on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:19AM (#40083655)

It seems like a lot of Firefox addons are not longer compatible with Seamonkey after Firefox changed their addon functionality and Seamonkey is still using a old Firefox version. The old addon system was more powerful so I guess they kept it also for backwards compatibility of existing addons. But now the new addons won’t work and the old ones are old and probably not longer maintained.

Usually all email clients have a good web version nowadays which make the integrated email less interesting.

To make this project live again it would need to break backwards compatibility and adjust to the Firefox release cycle.

Overall it would be a good candidate to integrate with AI.

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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by integricho on Friday April 19, 2024 @03:27AM (#40084233)

Or those could be precisely the reasons that would kill it for good. Putting AI tech in every product is not a good idea, just riding the hypetrain.

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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by Y_Y on Friday April 19, 2024 @05:04AM (#40084668)

If you like the hypetrain just wait until Elon Musk's HypeLoop!

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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by sharpshadow on Friday April 19, 2024 @07:44AM (#40085577)

Isn’t the hype over yet and established technology now?

Having an assistant in an all-in-one suit is factually better than most single use AI products.

Reading and answering the chat and emails, coding, browsing, scraping, botting… actually a good platform to pretending being a human.

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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by integricho on Friday April 19, 2024 @11:28AM (#40088047)

I'm afraid the hype is still rising very much, and a very large percentage of AI products are snakeoil, or barely functional PoCs, that are hyped up for a quick cash grab.

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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by sharpshadow on Saturday April 20, 2024 @05:47AM (#40096090)

Yes I totally agree with the snake oil but the technology overall is valid and working.

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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by Dwedit on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:10PM (#40089373)

Extensions explicitly designed for the old extension system still work.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy

Also works with Pale Moon. There are even special builds of Pale Moon that will run on Windows XP.

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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by njsg on Friday April 19, 2024 @08:21PM (#40093301)

Now there's also Enigmail, which supports SeaMonkey again.

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