Re: The State of the SeaMonkey Union!

2017-05-30 Thread Larry S.
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Larry S. wrote: Would like to try DuckDuckGo, but the Release Notes just say to go to the Sidebar. O.K., did that but not clear how to try DDG. Yes, due to the Bug there is no way to change the default browser. What do I do? If you just want to test-drive it, go to

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread NFN Smith
EE wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Just install an Adblocker. Adblock Plus 2.9 seems to be broken right now. Why it is still distributed is beyond me. 2.8.2 works. uBlock Origin should also work fine. I have ABP 2.8.2, which as you say runs fine; checking for

Re: The State of the SeaMonkey Union!

2017-05-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Ray_Net wrote: Larry S. wrote on 30-05-17 22:59: Would like to try DuckDuckGo, but the Release Notes just say to go to the Sidebar. O.K., did that but not clear how to try DDG. Yes, due to the Bug there is no way to change the default browser. What do I do? Larry S. Type: TEST in

Re: The State of the SeaMonkey Union!

2017-05-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Larry S. wrote: Would like to try DuckDuckGo, but the Release Notes just say to go to the Sidebar. O.K., did that but not clear how to try DDG. Yes, due to the Bug there is no way to change the default browser. What do I do? If you just want to test-drive it, go to duckduckgo.com. If you

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Paul in Houston, TX
EE wrote: Paul in Houston, TX wrote: uBlock Origin works great for me. Rarely if ever see an ad. However, some sites will block you if you have an ad blocker. Plenty of other sites that don't block - yet. You might want to see if Bluhell Firewall works with your SM version and install that,

Re: The State of the SeaMonkey Union!

2017-05-30 Thread Ray_Net
Larry S. wrote on 30-05-17 22:59: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Greetings, I am just relaying the following message for the SeaMonkey Council. It is not on the web page but it is official. If you have any questions you can either ask here or use the provided web address. Have fun FRG +++ snip

Re: The State of the SeaMonkey Union!

2017-05-30 Thread Larry S.
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Greetings, I am just relaying the following message for the SeaMonkey Council. It is not on the web page but it is official. If you have any questions you can either ask here or use the provided web address. Have fun FRG +++ snip +++ Hello fellow users and

Re: Clearing SeaMonkey Cache Files

2017-05-30 Thread David E. Ross
On 5/30/2017 1:13 PM, EE wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> Paul in Houston, TX wrote: >>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > Brute force under Windows Vista and up: > > Close SeaMonkey Delete %localappdata%\mozilla\seamonkey via > explorer. >

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Mason83 wrote: On 30/05/2017 11:01, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: One longstanding gripe I've had with Wladimir Palant is that I can never tell what the latest version is by visiting his website. ?? Adblock Plus 2.9 for Firefox released - 5 days ago Adblock

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
EE wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: One longstanding gripe I've had with Wladimir Palant is that I can never tell what the latest version is by visiting his website. So if the software says "no updates available" I guess I must have the latest version, but that doesn't rule out the possibility

Re: The State of the SeaMonkey Union! - Success of request for more help ❔

2017-05-30 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
I think it was a good start. I can only speak for me. I really didn't expect any great changes or new developers falling out of the blue sky and starting to produce patches. But some people offered to help and started with installing a dev environment. Some also offered help for doing

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Mason83
On 30/05/2017 11:01, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > >> Just install an Adblocker. >> >> Adblock Plus 2.9 seems to be broken right now. Why it is still >> distributed is beyond me. 2.8.2 works. uBlock Origin should also work >> fine. > > I have ABP 2.8.2, which as you say

Re: Clearing SeaMonkey Cache Files

2017-05-30 Thread EE
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Brute force under Windows Vista and up: Close SeaMonkey Delete %localappdata%\mozilla\seamonkey via explorer. The data there will be recreated during the next start Just make sure its

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread EE
Mr. Ed wrote: I still rely on the hosts file. It works for all web browsers or any other program accessing the internet. The problem with hosts files is that they do not take wildcards. Advertisers will keep changing the exact hostnames of their servers to try and prevent them from being

Re: Newsgroup Posts

2017-05-30 Thread rickman
MeOn wrote on 5/30/2017 11:30 AM: Seamonkey latest version QUESTION 1 I have been told that we cannot put images in posts and yet I see some newsgroup post with photographs. How is that done ? You can attach images to posts. Some groups display all images, others won't, but will display

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread EE
Paul in Houston, TX wrote: uBlock Origin works great for me. Rarely if ever see an ad. However, some sites will block you if you have an ad blocker. Plenty of other sites that don't block - yet. You might want to see if Bluhell Firewall works with your SM version and install that, too. I also

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread EE
DoctorBill wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Just install an Adblocker. Adblock Plus 2.9 seems to be broken right now. Why it is still distributed is beyond me. 2.8.2 works. uBlock Origin should also work fine. I have ABP 2.8.2, which as you say runs fine; checking

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread EE
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Just install an Adblocker. Adblock Plus 2.9 seems to be broken right now. Why it is still distributed is beyond me. 2.8.2 works. uBlock Origin should also work fine. I have ABP 2.8.2, which as you say runs fine; checking for updates returns

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread EE
DoctorBill wrote: In my last question here, I was "Off Topic" and was chastised for that. I am back with a question which I believe is on topic. If not - Tell me so and I will go away. I have noticed a vast increase in Advertisements on ALL web sites ! The adverts are plastered all over what

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread DoctorBill
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: DoctorBill wrote: I downloaded and had AdBlocker Plus installed from AdBlockPlus.org. It was for FireFox.are FireFox addons and plugins generally OK to use for SM ? AdBlocker Plus now appears in the Tools Menu. How can I find out which version was installed ?

Re: Newsgroup Posts

2017-05-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
MeOn wrote: Seamonkey latest version QUESTION 1 I have been told that we cannot put images in posts and yet I see some newsgroup post with photographs. How is that done ? AFAIK the image policy is just a social norm, not a technical block, so if you want to get scolded you can violate the

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
DoctorBill wrote: I downloaded and had AdBlocker Plus installed from AdBlockPlus.org. It was for FireFox.are FireFox addons and plugins generally OK to use for SM ? AdBlocker Plus now appears in the Tools Menu. How can I find out which version was installed ? Do CTRL-SHIFT-A, choose

Re: Newsgroup Posts

2017-05-30 Thread WaltS48
On 5/30/17 11:30 AM, MeOn wrote: Seamonkey latest version QUESTION 1 I have been told that we cannot put images in posts and yet I see some newsgroup post with photographs. How is that done ? Composition in HTML, not plain text. QUESTION 2 How do I delete posts ? Select the post,

Newsgroup Posts

2017-05-30 Thread MeOn
Seamonkey latest version QUESTION 1 I have been told that we cannot put images in posts and yet I see some newsgroup post with photographs. How is that done ? QUESTION 2 How do I delete posts ? Or how do I obfuscate posts ? Or how do I get rid of posts ? These are not my posts but from

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread DoctorBill
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Just install an Adblocker. Adblock Plus 2.9 seems to be broken right now. Why it is still distributed is beyond me. 2.8.2 works. uBlock Origin should also work fine. I have ABP 2.8.2, which as you say runs fine; checking for updates returns

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Mr. Ed
On 05/29/17 11:49 PM, DoctorBill wrote: In my last question here, I was "Off Topic" and was chastised for that. I am back with a question which I believe is on topic.  If not - Tell me so and I will go away. I

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: 2.9 is not compatible with 2.46 so you won't see the update. Just as well if it's broken as you say. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
2.9 is not compatible with 2.46 so you won't see the update. FRG Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Just install an Adblocker. Adblock Plus 2.9 seems to be broken right now. Why it is still distributed is beyond me. 2.8.2 works. uBlock Origin should also work fine. I have

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Just install an Adblocker. Adblock Plus 2.9 seems to be broken right now. Why it is still distributed is beyond me. 2.8.2 works. uBlock Origin should also work fine. I have ABP 2.8.2, which as you say runs fine; checking for updates returns nothing, so I don't know

Re: Clearing SeaMonkey Cache Files

2017-05-30 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
> Strangely enough, when I pasted "%localappdata%\mozilla\seamonkey" into my > Windows Explorer location bar earlier today, it returned This should never happen but as you mentioned: DON'T delete anything in the roaming folder unless you have a full backup :) FRG Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/5279 Mason83 wrote: On 30/05/2017 07:31, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: Just install an Adblocker. Adblock Plus 2.9 seems to be broken right now. Why it is still distributed is beyond me. 2.8.2 works. uBlock Origin should also work fine. I noticed that ABP

Re: Very Annoying Advertisements - Can SM Block Them ?

2017-05-30 Thread Mason83
On 30/05/2017 07:31, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > Just install an Adblocker. > > Adblock Plus 2.9 seems to be broken right now. Why it is still distributed is > beyond me. 2.8.2 works. uBlock Origin should also work fine. I noticed that ABP was acting strange. Claiming this is my first install.

Re: New user - with questions - JT

2017-05-30 Thread Ray_Net
jtay...@ec.rr.com wrote on 30-05-17 00:06: Ray_Net wrote: joegw...@comcast.net wrote on 29-05-17 19:03: On Monday, May 29, 2017 at 10:01:44 AM UTC-4, Ray_Net wrote: joegw...@comcast.net wrote on 27-05-17 01:16: I just installed SeaMonkey 2.46 on my 27" iMac under MacOS 10.9.5, and have