{"slug": "seamonkey", "name": "SeaMonkey", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 1.791, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-02-24", "latest": "2026-07-15", "why": "it can delete an attachment without deleting the message", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 3, "compare": 2, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "it can delete an attachment without deleting the message", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "seamonkey-project.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.seamonkey-project.org/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["SeaMonkey"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 778345637, "item_id": 48646602, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646602", "by": "k310", "date": "2026-06-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SeaMonkey (who else edits HTML?)", "excerpt": "Ublock-origin with Firefox, Audacity, Batch Photo Resizer, calibre, cardflow, Diffraction, Ejimo and Ultra Character Map (try finding emojis without them), Libre Office, Paprika Recipe Manager, Samurai Safe, SeaMonkey (who else edits HTML?) GIMP, Darktable, RawTherapee, Super Photo Upscaler, Sublime Text, VLC, Clearview (and why isn't epub supported natively?), PhotoSync (share photos with all platforms), GhostText f", "context": "", "use_case": "HTML editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?"}, {"id": 768402288, "item_id": 48025143, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025143", "by": "dlcarrier", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it can delete an attachment without deleting the message", "excerpt": "I use Seamonkey as an email client, and one of the features I like most is that it can delete an attachment without deleting the message. This is great when your running out of space and need to clear up large messages, but don't want to lose the hundreds of bytes of useful text, just so that you can delete the multi-megabyte attachments. I presume Thunderbird has the same feature, because they share a codebase.", "context": "", "use_case": "email client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gmail Storage Full? Find and Delete Large Emails to Fix It Fast"}, {"id": 763272675, "item_id": 47704542, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704542", "by": "nosioptar", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Seamonkey or claws mifht be good alternatives too.", "excerpt": "Seamonkey or claws mifht be good alternatives too. http://seamonkey-project.org/ https://claws-mail.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"}, {"id": 754261457, "item_id": 47141341, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141341", "by": "nosioptar", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Clawsand SeaMonkey both have a more reasonable design.", "excerpt": "Clawsand SeaMonkey both have a more reasonable design. (SeaMonkey did a piss poor job picking screenshots for their webpage...) https://www.claws-mail.org/screenshots.php https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/screenshots", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["local searchable hn archive", "html editing", "email client", "saving pages as html"], "compared": [{"slug": "firefox", "name": "Firefox", "co": 5, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claws-mail", "name": "Claws Mail", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "thunderbird", "name": "Thunderbird", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929678", "title": "Ask HN: How do you use Hacker News?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643848", "title": "Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513806", "title": "Leaving Mozilla", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023359", "title": "Gmail Storage Full? Find and Delete Large Emails to Fix It Fast", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836784", "title": "Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700388", "title": "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1, "compare": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"compare": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 782879472, "item_id": 48929967, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929967", "by": "k310", "date": "2026-07-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I copy the day's worth, open up SeaMonkey, get a new composer page and paste the html into it.", "excerpt": "I'm an infovore and go to /latest I visually scan extremely quickly, because my browser has an autopager that works on HN/latest, and I go one day back. I copy the day's worth, open up SeaMonkey, get a new composer page and paste the html into it. No slight on Algolia, this lets me search locally. In those visual scans, since there are only so many hours in the day, I grab a few flying by and once in a while, go to /", "context": "", "use_case": "local searchable HN archive", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How do you use Hacker News?"}, {"id": 778345637, "item_id": 48646602, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646602", "by": "k310", "date": "2026-06-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SeaMonkey (who else edits HTML?)", "excerpt": "Ublock-origin with Firefox, Audacity, Batch Photo Resizer, calibre, cardflow, Diffraction, Ejimo and Ultra Character Map (try finding emojis without them), Libre Office, Paprika Recipe Manager, Samurai Safe, SeaMonkey (who else edits HTML?) GIMP, Darktable, RawTherapee, Super Photo Upscaler, Sublime Text, VLC, Clearview (and why isn't epub supported natively?), PhotoSync (share photos with all platforms), GhostText f", "context": "", "use_case": "HTML editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?"}, {"id": 776280945, "item_id": 48517559, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517559", "by": "nosioptar", "date": "2026-06-13", "stance": "compare", "quote": "SeaMonkey may be an alternative. It's closer to what I want than Firefox.", "excerpt": "You might be able to get Firefox to work with apulse (pa emulation for alsa), i dont know if it still works. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1387154/using-alsa-on-firefox-instead-of-pulseaudio https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse SeaMonkey may be an alternative. It's closer to what I want than Firefox. https://www.seamonkey-project.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Leaving Mozilla"}, {"id": 768402288, "item_id": 48025143, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025143", "by": "dlcarrier", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it can delete an attachment without deleting the message", "excerpt": "I use Seamonkey as an email client, and one of the features I like most is that it can delete an attachment without deleting the message. This is great when your running out of space and need to clear up large messages, but don't want to lose the hundreds of bytes of useful text, just so that you can delete the multi-megabyte attachments. I presume Thunderbird has the same feature, because they share a codebase.", "context": "", "use_case": "email client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gmail Storage Full? Find and Delete Large Emails to Fix It Fast"}, {"id": 765612803, "item_id": 47850800, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850800", "by": "dogtimeimmortal", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "seamonkey 2.53.23: 24/32(-6 exp. -2 prop.)", "excerpt": "> there is a concrete danger to asymmetric cryptography I guess there is genuine cause for concern and a reason why i keep seeing these error pages telling me to update my browser. note, firefox 78(esr) still gets a 32/32 in security on https://html5test.co/ basilisk 2025: 26/32(-6 experimental features) pale moon 33.5: 26/32(-6 exp. feat.) seamonkey 2.53.23: 24/32(-6 exp. -2 prop.) I don't know why i experience so m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys"}, {"id": 763272675, "item_id": 47704542, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704542", "by": "nosioptar", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Seamonkey or claws mifht be good alternatives too.", "excerpt": "Seamonkey or claws mifht be good alternatives too. http://seamonkey-project.org/ https://claws-mail.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"}, {"id": 757065618, "item_id": 47316601, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47316601", "by": "k310", "date": "2026-03-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Paste into SeaMonkey (New Composer Page), paste and save as HTML.", "excerpt": "I use Dark Reader [0] with Firefox. It's in addons or $5 in mobile app stores. In addition, I use Infy Scroll, [1] which works with \"latest\" to give me a daily digest in HTML. I let it scroll, and copy a day's worth. Paste into SeaMonkey (New Composer Page), paste and save as HTML. Easter Egg is that I have to quickly click in the Search Box to gain focus for searching. It's my only video game. Appreciate the OP none", "context": "", "use_case": "saving pages as HTML", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dark Hacker News"}, {"id": 756603427, "item_id": 47287714, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287714", "by": "riedel", "date": "2026-03-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "My parent in law were still on SeaMonkey until a few months.", "excerpt": "The question is rather if Mozilla can win this catch-up game and win new users. If they do this they should rather IMHO simply upstream the stuff done by Zen [0], which IMHO has a much more modern look and feel. Btw: there is still quite some users that are lost if UI changes. Particularly older people might simply use pre-installed Edge if they have to get used to a new design anyway. My parent in law were still on ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like"}, {"id": 754261457, "item_id": 47141341, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141341", "by": "nosioptar", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Clawsand SeaMonkey both have a more reasonable design.", "excerpt": "Clawsand SeaMonkey both have a more reasonable design. (SeaMonkey did a piss poor job picking screenshots for their webpage...) https://www.claws-mail.org/screenshots.php https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/screenshots", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"}]}