На вики SeaMonkey появилась страничка по suiterunner.
http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:suiterunner

Добровольцы могли бы попрактиковаться в переводе:

Description

"suiterunner" is an internal code-name for the future version of SeaMonkey based on the "new toolkit", i.e. the same backend code already used by Firefox, Sunbird and for the most part also Thunderbird. The name is intentionally derived from "XULRunner", as the long-term goal of this project is to make SeaMonkey a XULRunner-based application.

Important changes

Compared to xpfe-based "conventional" SeaMonkey (1.0.x and 1.1.x), suiterunner will feature some quite important changes:

    * Incorporation of the same Add-On Management as Firefox, including uninstalling Add-Ons, automatic extension updates, etc.
    * Making Firefox and Thunderbird extensions compatible with suiterunner is easier than with "conventional" SeaMonkey (not all will work out-of-the-box though)
    * Profiles will be kept in a new directory, old profiles will need to be migrated (addition of a profile migrator opens doors to enable easier settings importing from other apps though)
    * New Windows installer will be based on NSIS, just like current Firefox installer

Why are we doing this?

Some of this has already been touched on above:

    * Using toolkit means we share more core files with Firefox, Sunbird, Thunderbird etc, this means we benefit from their fixes to the core code, and they benefit from ours.
    * It will be easier for extensions that work with Firefox/Thunderbird to be compatible with SeaMonkey.

Current development

Summary

For the moment, building SeaMonkey trunk in the "suiterunner" configuration is working on all platforms, but it currently ties some parts of xpfe and toolkit together in a temporary mix, still excluding some parts of toolkit from the build that we haven't yet figured out how to include without causing incompatibilities. Look for comments like "# XXX Suite doesn't want these just yet" in toolkit build files.