Sea Monkey will not open with Ventura MacOS on 10/27/22.

FYI, from the SeaMonkey site (https://www.seamonkey-project.org/):

"November 6, 2022

SeaMonkey and macOS Ventura

Attention macOS users! The current SeaMonkey release crashes during startup after upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura. Until we have a fix we advise you not to upgrade your macOS installation to Ventura. No usable crash information is generated and this might take a bit longer than usual to fix. This is not a problem with Monterey 12.6.1 or any lower supported macOS version so might even be an Apple bug.

The problem is tracked in Bug 1797696."

So, passing the buck, apparently. Best to look for alternatives, IMO.

Beta version is working on Ventura:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14943272#p14943272

Official nightly releases are here:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nightly/2022/

I'm using seamonkey-2.53.16b1pre.en-US.mac.dmg and it is working...

Adam Berkey wrote:

Thunderbird works fine for email but I am using the Composer portion of SeaMonkay for my web page. In true Apple fashion, right on que, has disabled yet another valuable application that I need. It worked on Monterey on my M1...

Apple didn’t disable anything. Developers are responsible for keeping their software up-to-date with Apple’s changes. not the other way around. If Apple had to verify all third party software continued to work or wait for developers to get up to speed before releasing an update there wouldn’t be any updates. As I pointed out in an earlier post developers have had many MONTHS to ensure their software was ready for Ventura. Your issue is with the developer of that "valuable application that I need”. And perhaps, if that application is so important to you, you might have waited before installing Ventura. You would have noticed this thread and others and waited for a fix from the developer, right?

Adam Berkey wrote:

Crossover, Download Windows SeaMonkey latest, create a Win7 or later bottle.

Looks like crap but it works so far. That is, if you already have Crossover... if you don't have Crossover, then this route will cost you money.

A general rule is that once a Mac app stops working and someone suggests using Crossover instead, the app is officially dead.

I found a Beta version that works on Ventura:

https://www.wg9s.com/comm-253/seamonkey-2.53.16b1pre.en-US.mac.dmg

Crossover, Download Windows SeaMonkey latest, create a Win7 or later bottle.

Looks like crap but it works so far. That is, if you already have Crossover... if you don't have Crossover, then this route will cost you money.

You can now download a working beta:

https://www.wg9s.com/comm-253/

In the meanwhile, THUNDERBIRD from Mozilla is fine, and a good alternative.

Jonah

Be sure to let them know…

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/community

They're aware but there is still no solution:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=3102516

Here is the MacOS (Ventura) warning message that is consistently presented to me when SeaMonkey 2.23.14 consistently crashes upon start-up:

seamonkey[17375:1575941] *** WARNING: Textured window <ToolbarWindow: 0x113abe000> is getting an implicitly transparent titlebar. This will break when linking against newer SDKs. Use NSWindow's -titlebarAppearsTransparent=YES instead.

Since I have templates for all my sites that I can edit very clearly via the CotEditor, so I only need the code for the body, I now help myself with an online html-composer like https://html5-editor.net/ when I put texts online.

Ventura developer betas have been available for a very long time so I wonder why Mozilla didn’t have SeaMonkey ready to go at release. Their other software apparently works.

Tried that. Had to create an account, which I did. I then verified it, logged in, and posted about the issue. Or tried to. By the time I finished my query my account had been manually disabled by an administrator. No idea why. But it doesn't look like there's going to be much help from that route. :-)

And, no, I didn't say anything ugly. Very odd.