SeaMonkey
Shares rank 41 of 53 web browsers by recommenders
Recommended as a free, open source alternative to Firefox with a good HTML composer; the main caveat is that it has rendering problems on some sites.
Recommended as a free, open source alternative to Firefox with a good HTML composer; the main caveat is that it has rendering problems on some sites.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Alternative to Firefox
“Seamonkey or claws mifht be good alternatives too.”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Help Keep Thunderbird Alive” “It's closer to what I want than Firefox.”
Comment from 13 Jun 2026 in “Leaving Mozilla”
Other web browsers people recommend
The four most recommended other web browsers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | 1,572 | 1,371 | 53% | 12 | 16 yrs125 owners | — |
| Google Chrome | 503 | 1,086 | 32% | 12 | 10 yrs11 owners | — |
| Brave | 397 | 248 | 62% | 12 | 4.9 yrs16 owners | — |
| Safari | 307 | 577 | 35% | 12 | 13 yrs27 owners | — |
| SeaMonkeyThis page | 7 | 3 | 70% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
13 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“they all give me endless captchas”
“It's closer to what I want than Firefox.”
“good old SeaMonkey composer, and end get nice HTML”
“one of the features I like most is that it can delete an attachment without deleting the message”
“seamonkey 2.53.23: 24/32(-6 exp. -2 prop.)”
“Seamonkey or claws mifht be good alternatives too.”
“Seamonkey has problems with the "modern web". I wonder why.”
“Clawsand SeaMonkey both have a more reasonable design.”
“it has some issue rendering some sites”
“Works great on old world stuff though.”
“truly opensource and no electron stuff”
“Mozilla sea monkey was bloated”
“Really, because mozilla seamonkey tried that. How do you think that went for them?”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.