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Date:	Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:17:46 -0700
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Firefox & Thunderbird, or SeaMonkey?

In <47D44176.8050703@gmail.com>, on 03/09/08
at 12:59 PM, Tom Brown said:

Hi,

>I used to use Mozilla, but switched to FF/TB way back when I realized
>that Mozilla was no longer the main track for new development. Since the
>advent of SeaMonkey, I have thought about giving it a try, but have not
>actually done it yet. One of these days...

The main difference between the various Mozilla apps is the UI. All the
apps share the same code base and all the code lives in the same source
code repository. When building one of the Mozilla apps, the build process
grabs pieces needed for specific application and goes to work.

The UI (aka the chrome) is implemented with XUL. This is the same stuff
that is used to implement extensions. What this means is that if someone
cared to they could make the SeaMonkey UI look like FireFox. Some of this
will happen automatically over time. The good features of each UI will
appear in the other UIs.

Steven

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