SeaMonkey 2.1 Alpha 1 Available

SeaMonkey 2.1 Alpha 1, a first preview of functionality in work for 
SeaMonkey's future is available for free download. Please note that this 
pre-release version is intended for developers and testers only. As 
always, we appreciate any feedback you may have and encourage users to 
help us by filing bugs.

This developer preview introduces many improvements, including:
- Better performance on startup and shutdown, as well as for JavaScript.
- Full screen HTML5 video.
- Resizeable text areas in web forms.
- A new Troubleshooting Information page (about:support).
- Notification bars for MailNews return receipts (MDN).
- Support for SMIL animation, CSS transitions, a new HTML5 parser, new
   DOM, HTML5 and CSS features as well as downloadable WOFF fonts.
- CSS :visited selectors that cannot be read by web sites (privacy
   improvement).

We welcome any and all discussions on this alpha on our newsgroups, or 
you can even file a bug if you find one. Be sure to check our Known
Issues prior to filing bugs.

SeaMonkey 2.1 Alpha 1 is available for free download from 
www.seamonkey-project.org. Once you have downloaded and installed this 
release, we'd like to encourage you to get involved in discussing and 
reporting problems as well as further improving the product.

Thanks for testing and helping us to make SeaMonkey even better!


Full news article:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/news#2010-05-18

Downloads for all available platforms:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.1a1

Release notes:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.1a1

System Requirements:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/2.1/system-requirements

Robert Kaiser
SeaMonkey project coordinator