Watch out Internet Explorer. Firefox, your time is up. Move over big boys, SeaMonkey's coming. Well...maybe not. As I looked over this browser, I felt I had turned back the clock to IE3. At first I didn't even think monkey boy knew anything about tabs since there doesn't appear to be an obvious way to add a tab graphically. Command-T did work, but it was only an educated guess on my part.
Now Shiira on the other hand has a unique twist on the concept of tabs. Rather than a simple name (which is sometimes not all that descriptive) across the top of a tab, Shiira displays small thumbnail images of all of your open web pages at the bottom. While this is nice it does take up some precious screen real estate. Shiira does give you the option to hide this information, but that kind of defeats the purpose. One nice feature I think would be useful, is the ability to display all of those web pages similaneously. However, I was unable to fully test this function because every time I click on one of the enlarged thumbnails, "Shiira quit unexpectedly."
All in all, I believe I will stick with Google Chrome. It is a nice, clean browser that is fast and easy to use.
The power of SeaMonkey is the integration of an email client, a web composer, a newsgroup client, etc. Newsgroups are about dead, though, and we seldom do web editing this way (more commonly using page templates, blogs, or wikis) and email is fading against chat clients, texting, etc. So, your speculation that SeaMonkey is more history than current is pretty correct.
ReplyDeleteSorry Shiira didn't work. You were taking it to a new level.
Thanks! {-)