SeaMonkey and Mozilla 1.7

I've been using Mozilla 1.7 for quite awhile now and I've always performed the manual install using the zip file. Is SeaMonkey just an upgraded, renamed Mozilla suite? Can I just replace Mozilla with SeaMonkey and have the ability to "fallback" to Mozilla if I encounter problems with SeaMonkey? I'm assuming that I can use my same profile files/directories for the browser and email clients.

Thanks.

 

Seamonkey is a new path, as an option to the standalones, Firefox+Thunderbird, giving the familiar Suite.
If you can get the .zip files, great. There is nothing much to fall back. But, I suggest that you get separate profiles, or, you can try to delete the Mozilla unzipped file (you can store it somewhere, and not use it), and use the Seamonkey file. I think that you should be ok, if you do not flip flop. I have, always, used separate profiles.

 

jw,

I would answer "yes" to all your questions. Using the same profile is not a problem, if you no longer use Mozilla. Leaving Mozilla on your system won't be a problem either, but if you do, you must create a new Profile for SeaMonkey.

There is information on SeaMonkey development, on these pages:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Home_Page
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/news.html