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→Added a better desciption of "what is Mozilla2"
The Seamonkey effort is about continuing to release new versions of the mozilla suite application, the original mozilla, that is in danger of dying in favor of Firefox and Thunderbird. Initially FF/TB were just separating the navigation/mail code from the whole of the suite, but they have now evolved in their own direction that not every user of the suite likes.
''From Kroc Camen:''
; Mozilla2 : The software that lays out the pages you see in Firefox and SeaMonkey is known as Gecko. Both Firefox and Seamonkey are User Interfaces that use Gecko to display web pages. Gecko was originally called "Mozilla" when it was developed by Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation was spun off of Netscape to maintain the Mozilla engine (Gecko). This engine has been progressing constantly and is almost at version 1.8. Therefore "Mozilla2" refers to plans for what to include when Gecko reaches the big 2.0 version number. Remember that Gecko is not an Internet browser like Firefox, it is the technology that displays web pages which other programs use.
; "Mozilla Suite" / "Seamonkey" : Seamonkey is the code name for the web browser known as "Mozilla Suite", it uses the Gecko engine to display webpages and has, since it's inception followed the progress of Gecko very closely meaning that SeaMonkey version numbers are identical to Gecko version numbers, e.g. SeaMonkey1.7 uses Gecko1.7 to display web pages.
Even though SeaMonkey will not have an official 1.8 Release, the gecko engine will continue towards version 2 and this does not affect the SeaMonkey web browser.
== Idea about the best way to do new Seamonkey releases ==
