Mozilla has decided to focus less on its "Seamonkey" software suite and concentrate on Firefox and Thunderbird.
Mozilla posted a letter on its website saying that it would discontinue development on SeaMonkey and will not release a 1.8 version.
"If we ship (Seamonkey) 1.8, we'll need to support that as well, and we just can't manage supporting that many versions as well as Firefox and Thunderbird releases," the letter said.
According to a TechNewsWorld article,
"Analysts said Mozilla is preparing for retaliation from Microsoft in the form of a new version of its Internet Explorer Web browser, which has been losing share to Firefox on a monthly basis recently. Last month Microsoft said version 7 would be released with the next update of Windows XP.
Microsoft has reason to retaliate. Firefox boasts nearly 27 million downloads since its November final release. Thunderbird has seen nearly 4 million downloads, although that pace has slowed a bit during the past month."
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