SeaMonkey 2.0a1 Alpha test Web Browser Tutorial:
Clearing Cache / History / Auto Complete PasswordsChanging what the browser is allowed to run/display (images, flash, pop-ups)
Browser Security
Changing the home page
Viewing the Source Code of a file
Favorite pages/ Bookmarks
A select few other options/features
SeaMonkey is based on the Gecko Engine.
SeaMonkey is actually the continuation of the Mozilla browser.
Clearing Cache / History / Auto Complete Passwords
From the Tools menu, Choose Clear Private Data.
Click on the items you wish to clear from the system
Changing what the browser is allowed to run/display (images, flash, pop-ups)
From the Tools menu,
Choose Image Manager
You can choose what to allow and what to block as far as images loading from a site
This can help keep your computer from being infected with a virus
Please be aware that blocking things may affect your ability to view websites
From the Tools menu,
Choose Cookie Manager
You can choose what to allow and what to block as far as cookies loading from a site
This can help keep your computer from being infected with a virus or protect your private information
Please be aware that blocking things may affect your ability to view websites
If you select Manage Stored Cookies...
You can manage for individual sites if you want to block or allow cookies
From the Tools menu,
Choose Popup Manager
You can affect pop-ups here
Browser Security
From the Tools menu,
Choose Password Manager
In Manage stored passwords...
You have a list of sites and user names with stored passwords
You can easily see your passwords by selecting Show Passwords
From the View menu,
Choose Page Info
You can view a lot of information about a web page here
In security you can see if the site is storing a cookie and if you have a saved password
You can view the password by clicking view saved password
From the Edit menu,
Choose Preferences
In Master Passwords
You can password protect SeaMonkey to prompt for a password anytime it uses a saved password
Changing the home page
From the Edit menu,
Choose Preferences
In Browser
You can choose to enter a different URL for your home page
You can also choose Current Page if you have an open web page or, since this is a tabbed system
If you have a set of web pages open, you can choose Current Group to open all web pages at once
Viewing the Source Code of a file
From the View menu,
Choose Page Source
The system will autolaunch a new window with the source code for the website
Favorite pages/ Bookmarks
From the Bookmarks menu, you can view all of your favorites
Add to your favorites
Or organize your favorites
In the manage bookmarks area, you can rename things
Move them into folders
Create new folders
And delete old bookmarks that you no longer need
Bookmarks can be shared between browser programs or computers using import and export
found in the tools menu of the bookmark management
A few options and Features
From the File menu
you can share a web page or link to a web page by auto launching your email system
From the View menu
you can change the look of SeaMonkey
From the Tools menu
you can easily translate a page
From the Tools menu
Web Development provides easy access to an Error Console, Java Console, DOM inspector, and JavaScript Debugger
From the Windows menu
SeaMonkey can be configured to be an email client, it has a direct IRC chat, and if you click composer.....
You can even publish the pages easily as you create them by setting up the embedded FTP system
From the Tools menu
Click Add-on Manager to add new themes, extensions, and plugins to SeaMonkey
From the Tools menu
SeaMonkey allows you to create individual profiles so everybody can keep their own
Data and bookmarks private or separated
From the Help menu
Quickly check for updates