SeaMonkey, Portable Edition 2.0.4 Released

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on March 31, 2010 - 6:36pm

Firefox logoPortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of SeaMonkey®, Portable Edition 2.0.4 in Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish and Spanish International. It's the popular SeaMonkey internet suite (browser, email, newsgroups, chat) bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your whole internet experience with you. This release updates SeaMonkey to the latest version. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And, as always, it's open source and completely free.

Read on for more details...

Mozilla®, SeaMonkey® and the SeaMonkey logo are registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation and are used under license.

Features

screenshotThe SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users. Under the hood, SeaMonkey uses much of the same Mozilla source code which powers such successful siblings as Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, Sunbird and Miro. Learn more about SeaMonkey...

New In This Release

This release updates SeaMonkey to the latest version.

Auto-Update Issue

If you allow SeaMonkey, Portable Edition to auto-update, some non-personal files may remain on the local PC. This will be addressed in a later release.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

SeaMonkey, Portable Edition is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

SeaMonkey, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the SeaMonkey, Portable Edition homepage. You can get the other localized releases from the Localization page. Get it today!

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Comments

I performed the automatic download yesterday and compressed the dll's and exe's in the APP/SeaMonkey folder without any issues. After reading the "Auto-Update Issue" message I decided to install from the .paf official release but noticed that it didn't appear to be compressed. I ran UPX, via "PortableApps.com AppCompactor", over the APP/SeaMonkey folder again and compressed it by 10MB.

Is there a reason this was not compressed?

Jeff.

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The reason is due to the distribution agreement with Mozilla because of their trademark; the condition is that the main binaries of all their apps be unmodified, thus we can't compress them. This was documented somewhere but I can't find it straight off and can't remember exactly where it is. You're welcome to compress it yourself but we can't in distribution.

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