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Mozilla's decided to halt development of the suite earlier this year in favour of the standalone applications Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird. SeaMonkey picks up where they left off.

The browser component uses the same code base as the Firefox 1.5 beta, added to which is

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an email client, HTML editor and IRC chat client. The aim is to provide the same look-and-feel that long time Mozilla and Netscape (which was based on Mozilla though it is now a separate entity) users are used to.

'SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha features more than just a state-of-the-art web browser, though: the application comes with a powerful email client as well as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat application,' said developer Robert Kaiser. 'For Web developers, mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools are included as well. SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha is one of the most powerful and secure internet software packages currently available, even though this release is only for testing.'

SeaMonkey 1.0a is available for Linux, Mac and Windows from www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey.