Updating SeaMonkey
I hope I have the right list for this. If not, I'm sure someone will redirect me to the right one. I use SeaMonkey 1.1.14, yes, I know it's an antique but I like it. It's easy, straightforward and uncomplicated. Unfortunately, there are an increasing number of sites that won't allow me to use it or only allow restricted use :( This means I'm either going to have to update or use one of the ghastly alternatives to SeaMonkey. Equally unfortunately, it appears nothing from my venerable version will automatically install on the newest version. Is there a simple, quick, easy way to move all my settings, etc to the new version or do I have to start again from scratch, adding email accounts, favourites, etc? I have 2.4.1 on my other machine and I don't like it. It's fiddly, complicated and not at all friendly or willing to do things the I want. -- Connie ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Adobe reader in SeaMonkey e-mail
I just updated Adobe Reader from their 9.0 version to 10.0. Now, when I receive a PDF file via e-mail and click on the attachment to open it, instead of opening it in the SeaMonkey browser (as an Adobe document) like it used to do, I get the message... Could not be opened because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences. What preferences, which association and changing it to what is it talking about? Thanks, George ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: PrefBar's ExpireHistory button for history...
On 8/31/12 10:38 PM, Ant wrote: ... Is it me or does this always seem to go back 30 days? I tell Prefbar's http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/buttons.html#expirehistory to 28 days or less than 30 seconds. It doesn't seem to stay forever in my SeaMonkey v2.11 web browsers. :( Thank you in advance. :) The built-in default is 30. You can change that by doing the following: 1. In SeaMonkey on the PrefBar tool bar, right-click and select Customize Prefbar from the pull-down menu. 2. In the far right column of the Preferences Toolbar pane under Enabled Items, locate and select the Expire History button. 3. Right-click and select Edit from the pull-down menu. 4. On the Edit Item window, select the onClick tab. 5. In the displayed script, locate the line containing 'Days of history to keep'. Change the 30 to whatever number of days you want to be the default. 6. Finish by selecting the OK buttons. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: PrefBar's ExpireHistory button for history...
On 9/1/2012 8:31 AM PT, David E. Ross typed: The built-in default is 30. You can change that by doing the following: 1. In SeaMonkey on the PrefBar tool bar, right-click and select Customize Prefbar from the pull-down menu. 2. In the far right column of the Preferences Toolbar pane under Enabled Items, locate and select the Expire History button. 3. Right-click and select Edit from the pull-down menu. 4. On the Edit Item window, select the onClick tab. 5. In the displayed script, locate the line containing 'Days of history to keep'. Change the 30 to whatever number of days you want to be the default. 6. Finish by selecting the OK buttons. So I have to press this button manually everytime I want to purge old histories of the value (e.g., 28 days)? I thought it was permanent. No wonder my places.sqlite is at 30 MB now (probably still growing). I thought it would be like the old SM v2.0.14 and earlier's default history settings. :( -- The little ant at its hole is full of courage. --African /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ /If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Updating SeaMonkey
Connie Sparrow wrote: I hope I have the right list for this. If not, I'm sure someone will redirect me to the right one. I use SeaMonkey 1.1.14, yes, I know it's an antique but I like it. It's easy, straightforward and uncomplicated. Unfortunately, there are an increasing number of sites that won't allow me to use it or only allow restricted use :( This means I'm either going to have to update or use one of the ghastly alternatives to SeaMonkey. Equally unfortunately, it appears nothing from my venerable version will automatically install on the newest version. Is there a simple, quick, easy way to move all my settings, etc to the new version or do I have to start again from scratch, adding email accounts, favourites, etc? I have 2.4.1 on my other machine and I don't like it. It's fiddly, complicated and not at all friendly or willing to do things the I want. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_SeaMonkey -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Adobe reader in SeaMonkey e-mail
George Carden wrote: I just updated Adobe Reader from their 9.0 version to 10.0. Now, when I receive a PDF file via e-mail and click on the attachment to open it, instead of opening it in the SeaMonkey browser (as an Adobe document) like it used to do, I get the message... Could not be opened because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences. What preferences, which association and changing it to what is it talking about? SM will sometimes get confused about where to look for a helper application after you update the helper. Go to Edit | Preferences | Browser | Helper Applications and locate the setting(s) for PDFs. As it happens, my installation has five such settings for various MIME types; YMMV: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Document (application/pdf) Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Document (file/unknown) Adobe Acrobat Forms Document (application/vnd.adobe.xfdf) Adobe Acrobat Forms Document (application/vnd.fdf) Adobe Acrobat XML Data Package File For each one, select your desired handling by clicking the answer on the right and pulling down your selection from the list. If your selection is already active but the program is not honoring it, choose Always ask. OK out and you should be fine. In cases where you chose Always ask, you can now go back in and choose what you really wanted. -- 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: PrefBar's ExpireHistory button for history...
On 9/1/12 9:24 AM, Ant wrote: On 9/1/2012 8:31 AM PT, David E. Ross typed: The built-in default is 30. You can change that by doing the following: 1. In SeaMonkey on the PrefBar tool bar, right-click and select Customize Prefbar from the pull-down menu. 2. In the far right column of the Preferences Toolbar pane under Enabled Items, locate and select the Expire History button. 3. Right-click and select Edit from the pull-down menu. 4. On the Edit Item window, select the onClick tab. 5. In the displayed script, locate the line containing 'Days of history to keep'. Change the 30 to whatever number of days you want to be the default. 6. Finish by selecting the OK buttons. So I have to press this button manually everytime I want to purge old histories of the value (e.g., 28 days)? I thought it was permanent. No wonder my places.sqlite is at 30 MB now (probably still growing). I thought it would be like the old SM v2.0.14 and earlier's default history settings. :( It's a button, not a script constantly running in the background. Thus, you must select it whenever you want to purge old entries. This is one reason why I assert that extensions are merely work-arounds for bugs and not solutions. Extensions cannot always supply the capability the way end-users want. In this case, the bug is #660646 at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660646. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: PrefBar's ExpireHistory button for history...
On 9/1/2012 10:56 AM PT, David E. Ross typed: ... So I have to press this button manually everytime I want to purge old histories of the value (e.g., 28 days)? I thought it was permanent. No wonder my places.sqlite is at 30 MB now (probably still growing). I thought it would be like the old SM v2.0.14 and earlier's default history settings. :( It's a button, not a script constantly running in the background. Thus, you must select it whenever you want to purge old entries. Ah! Thanks. That's a bummer. :( This is one reason why I assert that extensions are merely work-arounds for bugs and not solutions. Extensions cannot always supply the capability the way end-users want. In this case, the bug is #660646 at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660646. Thanks and that one I already voted a while ago. :) -- Stir up an ant's nest. --unknown /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ /If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Sound notification on new email won't play sound
The play sound on new email worked prior to SeaMonkey-2.11 but has not worked since. I have searched for many days on the net to find others with this problem and or any mention of it in bug reports. There were problems sometime back with Thunderbird but they are not relevant today. Here are the particulars for the system in use User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120830 Firefox/15.0 SeaMonkey/2.12 about:config mail.biff.play_soundtrue mail.biff.play_sound.type 1 mail.biff.play_sound.url points to .wav file that does exists and is playable by all system media players mail.biff.show_alerttrue plugins Mplayer-3.55 VLC twoflower-2.0.3 There are other non related plugins like Adobe Flash, Adblock Plus, NoScript etc.. I Just recently added the Mplayer plugin to see if it would solve the problem, it doesn't. I have disabled all the relevant plugins and enabled them one by one all to the same end. I have no idea how to determine what player this feature is using or how to trace down why it fails to play a sound. Having run strace when running SeaMonkey it tells me nothing I can make any use of. The system uses ALSA as the default audio hardware player and all of that works. ESD is on the system and this was mentioned for earlier solutions in Thunderbird however it doesn't fix he problem now. I tried using the root account which has no profile in use and I assigned the sound file through preferences and notifications and it still doesn't work. It's not a permissions problem that I can see. I am making the assumption it's not the SeaMonkey account user profile since root has a fresh unused profile and sound still fails. If not exactly spelled out above the system is using Linux slack-13.37 and all the media applications work fine. As I said above, earlier versions prior to SeaMonkey-2.11 worked fine. I am using SMTP and have two email accounts in the user profile aside from the gathering of UseNet accounts. This appears to have little to do with the email accounts and how they are set up as when selecting a sound to play in preferences the sound should preview even if there are no actual email accounts. I should add that the default audio notification does not work either. Any idea, suggestions or better yet, solution would end a lot of frustration here. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Updating SeaMonkey
Connie Sparrow wrote: Is there a simple, quick, easy way to move all my settings, etc to the new version or do I have to start again from scratch, adding email accounts, favourites, etc? There is the application and there is data. Profile, mail, news,,are data. You want a new app. You don't want or need new data. Copy the profile to a neutral location - preferably off the boot partition so when you go to a new Win you don't have to create a new SM. Now whenever you get a new app, just point it to that profile. As long as you moving to newer apps - not trying to go back - you will not have to do anything else. Ray ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
slight trouble ...
... before i upgraded to 2.12 all i had to do, when reading news, was single clik on a messaGE AND IT WAS MARKED [OOPS] read but in 2.12 it stays unread??? aNY HLP? Mr. Kevin W Mc Auley 1107 Middle Street So. Weymouth, MA 02190 beelzib...@comcast.net fax 781 335 - 8585 voc: 781 335 - 8080 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Non-Flash games interferes with keys?
http://www.atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/combat/play I assume this is HTML5 based and it seems like when I hit my keys, SM thinks I am doing a quick find. Is there a way around this beside disabling this feature? Thank you in advance. :) -- To the gods I am an ant, but to the ants, I am a god. --unknown /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ /If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Updating SeaMonkey
Interviewed by CNN on 01/09/2012 11:20, Connie Sparrow told the world: I hope I have the right list for this. If not, I'm sure someone will redirect me to the right one. I use SeaMonkey 1.1.14, yes, I know it's an antique but I like it. It's easy, straightforward and uncomplicated. Unfortunately, there are an increasing number of sites that won't allow me to use it or only allow restricted use :( This means I'm either going to have to update or use one of the ghastly alternatives to SeaMonkey. Equally unfortunately, it appears nothing from my venerable version will automatically install on the newest version. Is there a simple, quick, easy way to move all my settings, etc to the new version or do I have to start again from scratch, adding email accounts, favourites, etc? I have 2.4.1 on my other machine and I don't like it. It's fiddly, complicated and not at all friendly or willing to do things the I want. Well, the easiest way to do a migration is using the automatic migration tool. But it's no longer included in more recent versions. So, the trick is doing it in two (or three) steps: 1. Install SM 2.0.14 from this page: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.0.14 Note that SM 2.x by default WON'T install over your SM 1.x. Which means that you will end up with two different versions of SM on the disk. This is BY DESIGN. DO NOT force installation over the old version. Note that it's possible that some of your shortcuts are still pointing to the old version. This will be dealt with later. On first run, it will offer to copy your data and settings. from the old 1.x profile to a new 2.x profile. Note that it COPIES the profile, it does not CHANGE the original profile. So, if something goes wrong with the process (happens sometimes), your original profile is still unmodified. So, at the end of the process, you will have two Seamonkeys and two profiles. You should now uninstall SM 1.x to avoid problems. Yes, it will remove some of the Seamonkey shortcuts. That's no problem. 2. (OPTIONAL INTERMEDIATE STEP) Later versions of SM 2.x are unable to preserve your download history from SM 2.0.x. Most users don't care about this and skip this step. If you want to preserve download history, you should now upgrade your installation to SM 2.1, obtained here: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.1 3. Now, upgrade Seamonkey to the latest version, obtainable from http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ That's basically it. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my TRS-80 * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.12 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Non-Flash games interferes with keys?
Ant wrote: http://www.atari.com/arcade#!/arcade/combat/play I assume this is HTML5 based and it seems like when I hit my keys, SM thinks I am doing a quick find. Is there a way around this beside disabling this feature? Thank you in advance. :) Use the up, down, right, and left arrow keys to move and the space bar to shoot. -- WaltS using Fedora 17 (64-bit) Gnome or KDE Desktop SeaMonkey Release ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
