Re: SeaMonkey default printer problem
El 29/12/12 06:28, Paul B. Gallagher escribió: OK, here's something that does work, though I'm not sure of any unintended consequences: In about:config, find the pref print_printer, right-click it, and choose reset. It becomes blank. Close about:config. Henceforth, whenever you execute a print command, the default printer is selected. You can select another printer, but the next time you execute a print command, the default is selected again. Just what the OP wanted. Any reason not to do this? I'd also like to know how to restore the default behavior. My experience is that the printer you select in the *browser* window of SeaMonkey persists across sessions, thus turning it into the SeaMonkey default printer. However, in the *mail news* window, if you choose a different printer when printing, the selection does not persist and it reverts to the SeaMonkey default printer (the one last selected in a SM browser window). All of this is running on Windows (XP); I haven't really played with it on Linux enough to confirm it works the same way. I haven't changed the preferences directly so I can't comment about whether it works or not. -- Ricardo Palomares (RickieES) http://www.mozilla-hispano.org/ http://www.proyectonave.es/ https://diasp.eu/u/rickiees ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
A new PDF problem...
I'm a longtime Seamonkey user with multiple computers at different locations. They all run Windows XP and are set up identically, to open PDF links in a new tab. For the past week or two, each computer frequently has the same problem. Instead of PDF links opening, I get a blank grey screen that says Check for updates... Click here to activate plugin. This used to happen occasionally and could be corrected by closing Acrobat.exe in Task Manager and reloading the PDF link, but now it happens very frequently on every computer -- and my old fix never works. Has anyone else encountered this problem? It just kills me to have to keep switching to clunky IE to open PDF links! ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SeaMonkey default printer problem
David E. Ross wrote: On 12/30/12 10:56 AM, Michael Gordon wrote: Snip David, I think the OP stated he could not find a user.js file, that would be because in the Mozilla profiles a user.js file must be created by the user. Once it is created Mozilla will use its content to copy into the prefs.js file. It is much safer to modify the preferences with the user.js file than to directly edit prefs.js. Michael G I agree. Not only did John (the original poster in this thread) not have user.js, but also Gallagher (to whom I was replying) did not. I tried to recreate their experience by disabling my own user.js by renaming it x-user.js. I still could not see their problem. David, for what it's worth, my understanding of the user.js file is to write specific settings into the prefs.js/config file. Once you create a user.js file and then start SeaMonkey, the pref is set and will stay that way until *you* do something specifically to change that setting. Just renaming or deleting the user.js *will not* re-set the pref back to it's original setting. IMHO, of course! -- Daniel Happy New Year and may 2013 be better for you than 2012 was!! Under 100 messages to catch up on in m.gen ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Lost Navigation Bar
For several months now I have not had the Navigation Bar displayed in my Sea Monkey browser window. I don't remember exactly when or after what process this first occurred. I have all the toolbars checked, except the sidebar, in the ViewShow/Hide settings and I have the Website Navigation Bar set to 'Always Show' in ViewShow/HideWebsite Navigation Bar. I have just downloaded and installed v2.14.1 and of course relaunched Sea Monkey but the problem is still there. I am running a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.6.8. I have restarted my computer many times since the problem appeared and there's been no change to my Sea Monkey window. Anybody have any ideas? MTIA ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Lost Navigation Bar
On 31.12.2012 06:49, explanethi...@gmail.com wrote: --- Original Message --- For several months now I have not had the Navigation Bar displayed in my Sea Monkey browser window. I don't remember exactly when or after what process this first occurred. I have all the toolbars checked, except the sidebar, in the ViewShow/Hide settings and I have the Website Navigation Bar set to 'Always Show' in ViewShow/HideWebsite Navigation Bar. I have just downloaded and installed v2.14.1 and of course relaunched Sea Monkey but the problem is still there. I am running a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.6.8. I have restarted my computer many times since the problem appeared and there's been no change to my Sea Monkey window. Anybody have any ideas? MTIA Look on the very left hand side of the toolbars, you will see little arrows. The navigation bar arrow may be pointed to the right instead of up, click it and see if it returns. -- Jay Garcia - www.ufaq.org - Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Thunderbird Mozilla Contribute Coordinator Team - www.mozilla.org/contribute/ Mozilla Mozillian Member - www.mozillians.org Mozilla Contributor Member - www.mozilla.org/credits/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Lost Navigation Bar
Thanks for the quick reply Jay but I don't see what you a referring to. At the very top of the window I have a grey bar with the coloured buttons for closing/minimising/expanding the window. Next down I have the Bookmarks Toolbar and below that I have the Tabs that are open. Can't see any arrows except at the right hand end of the Tab Bar which creates a dropdown of the tabs I am currently using. Look on the very left hand side of the toolbars, you will see little arrows. The navigation bar arrow may be pointed to the right instead of up, click it and see if it returns. -- Jay Garcia - www.ufaq.org - Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Thunderbird ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SeaMonkey default printer problem
Ricardo Palomares Martínez wrote: El 29/12/12 06:28, Paul B. Gallagher escribió: OK, here's something that does work, though I'm not sure of any unintended consequences: In about:config, find the pref print_printer, right-click it, and choose reset. It becomes blank. Close about:config. Henceforth, whenever you execute a print command, the default printer is selected. You can select another printer, but the next time you execute a print command, the default is selected again. Just what the OP wanted. Any reason not to do this? I'd also like to know how to restore the default behavior. My experience is that the printer you select in the *browser* window of SeaMonkey persists across sessions, thus turning it into the SeaMonkey default printer. However, in the *mail news* window, if you choose a different printer when printing, the selection does not persist and it reverts to the SeaMonkey default printer (the one last selected in a SM browser window). All of this is running on Windows (XP); I haven't really played with it on Linux enough to confirm it works the same way. I haven't changed the preferences directly so I can't comment about whether it works or not. How about that! I've thought about SM mail and SM browser as one program for so long that it never occurred to me to consider this possibility. My SM 2.14.1 on Win7Pro SP1 behaves that way, too. So I actually have reverted to the standard behavior. Thanks for the tip. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Lost Navigation Bar
explanethi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the quick reply Jay but I don't see what you a referring to. At the very top of the window I have a grey bar with the coloured buttons for closing/minimising/expanding the window. Next down I have the Bookmarks Toolbar and below that I have the Tabs that are open. Can't see any arrows except at the right hand end of the Tab Bar which creates a dropdown of the tabs I am currently using. At the very left end of the bookmarks toolbar, which should include Home, Bookmarks, and perhaps some other things such as AdBlock Plus if you've installed the corresponding add-ins, you should see a tiny speckled vertical bar containing a black triangle. If you click that bar, the bookmarks toolbar will disappear and the speckled bar will turn horizontal. At that point, you should have three of the speckled bars, one after the other, and no toolbars. If you click each of them, the hidden contents will be revealed. If you don't want to take the risk of hiding your bookmarks toolbar, look for similar horizontal speckled bars below the left corner of the bookmarks toolbar, and click them to reveal their contents. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Lost Navigation Bar
Dear Paul Nope, I have nothing like what you describe. I have 'Home' incl. the little house icon, then a vertical dotted line. To the right of that is 'Bookmarks' with a folder icon and all my various bookmarks. I know my eyes aren't what they used to be but I truly see no speckled bars. And my wife took a look and can't see anything either! I am considering uninstalling Sea Monkey (I have Mac Keeper which will totally uninstall it) and reinstalling. My major concern here is losing my bookmarks which would suck. David At the very left end of the bookmarks toolbar, which should include Home, Bookmarks, and perhaps some other things such as AdBlock Plus if you've installed the corresponding add-ins, you should see a tiny speckled vertical bar containing a black triangle. If you click that bar, the bookmarks toolbar will disappear and the speckled bar will turn horizontal. At that point, you should have three of the speckled bars, one after the other, and no toolbars. If you click each of them, the hidden contents will be revealed. If you don't want to take the risk of hiding your bookmarks toolbar, look for similar horizontal speckled bars below the left corner of the bookmarks toolbar, and click them to reveal their contents. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Lost Navigation Bar
Ok everybody, it's fixed. Yay! For a totally different reason (I could not easily see the little 'X' for closing tabs), I switched from 'SeaMonkey Default Theme' to 'SeaMonkey Modern'. After restarting, the problem was fixed. I can also see all the little arrows and things that were supposed to be there. Thanks to Jay and Paul for responding. David ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Lost Navigation Bar
On 12/31/12 4:49 AM, explanethi...@gmail.com wrote: For several months now I have not had the Navigation Bar displayed in my Sea Monkey browser window. I don't remember exactly when or after what process this first occurred. I have all the toolbars checked, except the sidebar, in the ViewShow/Hide settings and I have the Website Navigation Bar set to 'Always Show' in ViewShow/HideWebsite Navigation Bar. I have just downloaded and installed v2.14.1 and of course relaunched Sea Monkey but the problem is still there. I am running a MacBook Pro with OSX 10.6.8. I have restarted my computer many times since the problem appeared and there's been no change to my Sea Monkey window. Anybody have any ideas? MTIA Try running in Safe Mode. On your menu bar select [Help Restart with Add-ons Disabled]. Can you get your Navigation toolbar to appear? -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Are taxes too high in the U.S.? Check the bar graph at http://www.rossde.com/taxes/trickling.html to see. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SeaMonkey default printer problem
On 12/31/12 4:33 AM, Daniel wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 12/30/12 10:56 AM, Michael Gordon wrote: Snip David, I think the OP stated he could not find a user.js file, that would be because in the Mozilla profiles a user.js file must be created by the user. Once it is created Mozilla will use its content to copy into the prefs.js file. It is much safer to modify the preferences with the user.js file than to directly edit prefs.js. Michael G I agree. Not only did John (the original poster in this thread) not have user.js, but also Gallagher (to whom I was replying) did not. I tried to recreate their experience by disabling my own user.js by renaming it x-user.js. I still could not see their problem. David, for what it's worth, my understanding of the user.js file is to write specific settings into the prefs.js/config file. Once you create a user.js file and then start SeaMonkey, the pref is set and will stay that way until *you* do something specifically to change that setting. Just renaming or deleting the user.js *will not* re-set the pref back to it's original setting. IMHO, of course! Printing with a different printer does indeed change the preference variable. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Are taxes too high in the U.S.? Check the bar graph at http://www.rossde.com/taxes/trickling.html to see. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: A new PDF problem...
BIll Spikowski wrote: I'm a longtime Seamonkey user with multiple computers at different locations. They all run Windows XP and are set up identically, to open PDF links in a new tab. For the past week or two, each computer frequently has the same problem. Instead of PDF links opening, I get a blank grey screen that says Check for updates... Click here to activate plugin. This used to happen occasionally and could be corrected by closing Acrobat.exe in Task Manager and reloading the PDF link, but now it happens very frequently on every computer -- and my old fix never works. Has anyone else encountered this problem? It just kills me to have to keep switching to clunky IE to open PDF links! Check in Tools - Add-ons Manager to see if there is a Adobe PDF plugin and deactivate it. Also, go into Adobe Reader and turn off updates. And unless you have some love for Adobe Reader, uninstall and get the free Foxit PDF reader: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Ambivalent? Well, yes and no. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: A new PDF problem...
Ed Mullen wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: I'm a longtime Seamonkey user with multiple computers at different locations. They all run Windows XP and are set up identically, to open PDF links in a new tab. For the past week or two, each computer frequently has the same problem. Instead of PDF links opening, I get a blank grey screen that says Check for updates... Click here to activate plugin. This used to happen occasionally and could be corrected by closing Acrobat.exe in Task Manager and reloading the PDF link, but now it happens very frequently on every computer -- and my old fix never works. Has anyone else encountered this problem? It just kills me to have to keep switching to clunky IE to open PDF links! Check in Tools - Add-ons Manager to see if there is a Adobe PDF plugin and deactivate it. Also, go into Adobe Reader and turn off updates. And unless you have some love for Adobe Reader, uninstall and get the free Foxit PDF reader: I have no love for Adobe Reader, but I use the full Adobe Acrobat version 9.5, which is listed as a plug-in in the Add-ons Manager. If I disable that, do you know what will happen? Is that decision easily reversible? I hesitate to turn off Adobe updates, given the dire security warnings they keep providing! I'm normally happy just to experiment, but when it comes to the interaction of Adobe Acrobat and Seamonkey, it's a complete mystery to me, and I've learned to hesitate tinkering with a PDF setup that finally works for me... ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: A new PDF problem...
On 12/31/12 9:53 AM, BIll Spikowski wrote: Ed Mullen wrote: BIll Spikowski wrote: I'm a longtime Seamonkey user with multiple computers at different locations. They all run Windows XP and are set up identically, to open PDF links in a new tab. For the past week or two, each computer frequently has the same problem. Instead of PDF links opening, I get a blank grey screen that says Check for updates... Click here to activate plugin. This used to happen occasionally and could be corrected by closing Acrobat.exe in Task Manager and reloading the PDF link, but now it happens very frequently on every computer -- and my old fix never works. Has anyone else encountered this problem? It just kills me to have to keep switching to clunky IE to open PDF links! Check in Tools - Add-ons Manager to see if there is a Adobe PDF plugin and deactivate it. Also, go into Adobe Reader and turn off updates. And unless you have some love for Adobe Reader, uninstall and get the free Foxit PDF reader: I have no love for Adobe Reader, but I use the full Adobe Acrobat version 9.5, which is listed as a plug-in in the Add-ons Manager. If I disable that, do you know what will happen? Is that decision easily reversible? I hesitate to turn off Adobe updates, given the dire security warnings they keep providing! I'm normally happy just to experiment, but when it comes to the interaction of Adobe Acrobat and Seamonkey, it's a complete mystery to me, and I've learned to hesitate tinkering with a PDF setup that finally works for me... Your Adobe Acrobat 9.5 -- is that the reader or the writer? I found out years ago that if you install the writer, you need to reinstall the reader. Yes, they will work okay without doing that; but SeaMonkey will then view PDF files in the writer instead of the reader. Also, you should turn off updates. On the reader's menu bar, select [Edit Preferences Updater], select the last radio button, and then the okay button. Periodically, manually check http://get.adobe.com/reader/ to see if there is a new version. The current version of the reader is 11.0. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Are taxes too high in the U.S.? Check the bar graph at http://www.rossde.com/taxes/trickling.html to see. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: lost 6 months of emails
jean-pierre bessette wrote: Back in August when the program started constantly asking me if I wanted to 'COMPACT NOW?', I finally clicked OK to whatever the message was in the hope that it would stop asking me the question. Instead it seemed to compact almost constantly, causing a 'fluttering' of the script on my emails and making them almost unreadable. So I looked for a way to reverse what I had done and made a bit mistake. As I searched through the '\help' options I came across one that offered Restart with add-ons disabled When I clicked on yes, the program reverted to a new installation, and I lost all emails, including all those that I had saved for the previous 6 months since I had bought this computer. Unfortunately I could not find a way to reverse what I had just done. I have just switched over to Thunderbird, and all the current email lists have imported completely. Does anyone have any idea how I might retrieve those lost emails in Sea Monkey - personal ones with photos are the ones I would like to retrieve - or are they gone completely? jp Hi, Excuse me for stating the obvious, but you should start doing periodic backups, e.g. to an external hard drive. Make certain that you have software that does a COMPLETE backup, including your registry, e.g. BounceBack. You can back up daily, weekly, or monthly, depending upon your needs. I would also suggest that you burn your desired photographs to good quality CD-Rs, such as T.Y. from Japan. In addition, consider keeping a set of backed up data in another building, because fires and floods do occur. Good luck, and Happy New Year. Mort Linder ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: lost 6 months of emails
Mort wrote: jean-pierre bessette wrote: Back in August when the program started constantly asking me if I wanted to 'COMPACT NOW?', I finally clicked OK to whatever the message was in the hope that it would stop asking me the question. Instead it seemed to compact almost constantly, causing a 'fluttering' of the script on my emails and making them almost unreadable. So I looked for a way to reverse what I had done and made a bit mistake. As I searched through the '\help' options I came across one that offered Restart with add-ons disabled When I clicked on yes, the program reverted to a new installation, and I lost all emails, including all those that I had saved for the previous 6 months since I had bought this computer. Unfortunately I could not find a way to reverse what I had just done. I have just switched over to Thunderbird, and all the current email lists have imported completely. Does anyone have any idea how I might retrieve those lost emails in Sea Monkey - personal ones with photos are the ones I would like to retrieve - or are they gone completely? jp JP I'm not sure how to get them out, but I think that I maybe able to help you find them. Depending upon your operating system, not sure about mac's or Unix systems but in Windows (vista for me) you need to find what is called the slt file mine looks like this kdz14sgr.default yours will probably be different. This is how you find it (again in Vista). open your C: Drive and look at the folders find the folder Users. Then you will look for a folder that is your computers name, not all users, default users, or guests, but probably the one after these depending upon what you named your computer. Inside that folder look for Application Data. Inside that folder look for Mozilla. Inside that folder look for Seamonkey. Inside that folder look for Profiles Inside that folder your will find the slt folder as mentioned above. Inside that folder you will find the Mail folder. Inside this folder you should find all your mail, broken down by where you get your mail from, I have gmail, yahoo, and a few others in mine, inside of these folders you should find your missing mail. Again, I'm not sure how to get it out of there, but there it should be. Hope this helps you some. Eric ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
