Re: WMP

2010-05-06 Thread Bill Davidsen
NoOp wrote: On 4/20/2010 12:01 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: David E. Ross wrote: ... To defeat sniffing, use any of the various extensions that allow you to spoof Firefox. For an explanation of "spoofing", see my <http://www.rossde.com/internet/intr_gloss.html#spoof>. You can d

Re: Multiple Versions

2010-04-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
to be done carefully. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://li

Re: WMP

2010-04-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
t's one more thing to track, update, etc. You can also go into about:config and select "useragent" in the select box. Right click and define a new string value called general.useragent.extra.firefox with a string value of "NOT Firefox/3.5.3" (or 3.0.11 for 1.1.xx). This wil

Re: Moving email folders out of SM...

2010-04-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
quot; from the menu to copy the files to the local disk. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonk

Re: SM 2.04 - compacting folders at convenient times

2010-04-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
me message filters and installing subfolders. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lis

Re: How can I avoid Sea Monkey's automatically converting base urls to mere relative urls, please?

2010-04-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
ou want, although I haven't tried it since the 1.1.xx series, since the default is what I usually want. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot _

Re: 2.0.4 version - Google add-on

2010-04-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
-on will work, that may not be a good thing to do. Perhaps someone will tell you. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonk

Links in browser work, in email don't

2010-04-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Is it a deliberate misfeature that IRC links (irc://host/group) work in the browser but not in email? Other links work in email, but if I want to join a room from email I have to do it manually. Or is this just broken? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling o

Re: Creating HTML email messages

2010-04-08 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jay Garcia wrote: On 07.04.2010 11:32, Bill Davidsen wrote: --- Original Message --- I have put a few examples up at >> http://www/~davidsen/Private/HTMLmail/ Care to try again, that link is invalid. Wow, something in the posting process stripped the domain! WTH?? http://www.t

Re: Help ref SeaMonkey/Fire Fox command

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
David E. Ross wrote: On 4/5/10 12:27 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 3/30/10 2:07 PM, Lee wrote: Hi Ray, OK copied and put it in and I assume it works but one question do I put in the "NOT" I copied it exactly as you wrote it and I assume that was the way it was s

Re: Creating HTML email messages

2010-04-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Pay by the byte is not the only pay-as-you-go billing option. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mail

Re: Help ref SeaMonkey/Fire Fox command

2010-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
eding Firefox and having the config option set makes sense and is nice and portable to another machine. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot _

Re: Seamonkey 2.0 How do I lock the start-up mail directory structure displayed in the sidebar?

2010-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
ut That doesn't show up in about:config for SM2, does for SM 1.1.xx. Some other value there? Just user-defining it? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

Re: When will SeaMonkey use Firefox v3.6.2's Gecko version?

2010-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Seamonkey always be behind? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: Creating HTML email messages

2010-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
ttempt to "speed up" browsers, some load images in parallel, which can result in lots of connects to the web server, and may perceived as a DoS attack. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinatio

Re: Creating HTML email messages

2010-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
graphics and the like. Do you think those images would be smaller if they were attached to text as just mime attachments? Getting a multi-MB message isn't a problem with HTML, it's a problem with clueless friends. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bun

Re: A pop up alive forever

2010-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ray_Net wrote: chicagofan wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Ray_Net wrote: I had this problem with SM1, and expected a solution in SM2. NO !!! Sometimes when sending mail, the popup windows entitled "Sending Messages -" with Status: Copy complete Progress: [showi

Re: A pop up alive forever

2010-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mark Hansen wrote: On 3/27/2010 5:38 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Ray_Net wrote: I had this problem with SM1, and expected a solution in SM2. NO !!! Sometimes when sending mail, the popup windows entitled "Sending Messages - " with Status: Copy complete Progress: [showing a never end

Re: Keep having to delete Inbox.msf

2010-03-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dick Hoffman wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Dick Hoffman wrote: I'm using SM 2.0.3 under Windows XP-SP3. Recently I've started getting a message to the effect that SM experienced a problem truncating the Inbox after moving a message to another folder and that I might have to shut d

Re: Seamonkey freezing Computer

2010-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
William Morrison wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: William Morrison wrote: Mark Hansen wrote: On 3/24/2010 2:14 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: William Morrison wrote: Hey Group I'm having trouble with Seamonkey freezing my computer Windows XP, right? ... My computer is running

Re: Two profiles, I only created one

2010-03-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: Daniel wrote: Monica wrote: Bernard Mercier wrote: Monica avait prétendu : Daniel wrote: Monica wrote: Since the last update to the current 2.0.3. I have 2 profiles in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\ApplicationData\Mozilla\SeaMonkey

Re: SM 2.03 fails on this page

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ies' and 'Accept cookies normally' ... success. So, conditional OKs for cookies are sometimes not sufficient. You are possibly getting cookies from other sites, did you check what cookies it added? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than f

Re: newest Crash

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
on a large number of real and virtual hosts, using releases from five years to five hours old, and I just flat out don't see this. And I don't hear it from my Mac-using friends, either. That raises the possibility that your environment is somehow unique. -- Bill Davidsen "We ha

Re: Seamonkey freezing Computer

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
, 1500MB RAM, 2 cores of CPU. An old test install of an obsolete Fedora version I dropped 2.0.beta on long ago, and updated. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

Re: Seamonkey freezing Computer

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
updates when I open an account, but that usually take only 5-10 sec. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey maili

Re: Seamonkey freezing Computer

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
your wife is in a really good mood they have a $400 laptop with fast CPU and 3GB on the home page. ;-) -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot _

Re: Keep having to delete Inbox.msf

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
out once a week and it's annoying. Any idea what's causing this and what I can do to stop it from happening? (This is my biggest "problem" with SM 2 - all in all a terrific product.) Running out of disk or memory? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bu

Re: Is anyone else getting an error?

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
ance. :) IE8 would probably have no complaints if you fed it the menu from a Chinese restaurant or the text of a Russian novel. It ignores what it doesn't understand. Wow, that sounds like our legislators, doesn't it? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungl

Re: A pop up alive forever

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
bout the right size for a completion message and socket teardown. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list sup

Re: Two profiles, I only created one

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
"everything?" I have always done "all or nothing" at that point, If you did, you are probably going down a lightly tested (at best) path, since most people either trust it or don't. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more t

Re: Creating HTML email messages

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
. (Phished.) Bill Davidsen wrote: people can diddle the display width before printing the message, too. If you want something to print properly every time, HTML is *not* the proper format to use. Portable Document Format (PDF) gives a 100% solution here --no diddling necessary. there are clear

Re: Creating HTML email messages

2010-03-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Daniel wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: JeffM wrote: John Klein wrote: I need a way to create several HTML email messages for transmission by 3rd party email list owners. First, tell them that is the stupid way to do things. Don't you understand, USENET is not the prime thrust any more

Re: Clear Private Data - linux/Windows

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
rivacy & Security only shows a "Clear Now" bottom! Tools->Clear private data. But I don't see a button, either. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot __

Re: Importing bookmarks and addressbook to Windows 7 PC

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
elete dups before you move all, will work. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lis

Re: Two profiles, I only created one

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
there seems to be some install issue which confuses the issue. I would not delete anything unless you know what to backup. You are on Windows, so I would not dare give you more advice than that. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the m

Re: Two profiles, I only created one

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
same issue, decided it wasn't worth the time, since the machine is internal use only. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamo

Re: Lightning on SeaMonkey: News from the front

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
also work No, they won't. They run against 2.1.x IIRC. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list su

Re: multiple email issues with SM 1.18

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
as posted and asked me about personally were caused by conflict. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey maili

Re: Creating HTML email messages

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
se to valid technical questions. When someone says "how do I?" a response of "only stupid people would want to do that" is off topic in my book. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&quo

Re: Creating HTML email messages

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
f spam or legit. sometimes the titles can be deceiving. In those cases cntl-U is your friend, look at it in bare text first. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicke

Re: Creating HTML email messages

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
here was a benefit to saving a few bytes, the cost of inferior communication is now higher than any saving. If you want saving, limit message size and reject messages with excessive quoting. That still has benefit. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the in

Re: Support For SeaMonkey 1.x Dropped

2010-03-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
.X release available, 1.1.19, which fixes some security stuff ... That sounds about right. There will be no further SM 1.x releases. Pretty clear to me. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machi

Re: Accounts - What is the process for seeing all possible subjects that one can subscribe to?

2010-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
ternal-september.net and register (per previous post instructions), then click on the account in the sidebar and the "manage subscriptions" option in the main window. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machin

Re: Support For SeaMonkey 1.x Dropped

2010-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
t issues I see with Linux and Windows, needing the "other" library installed. Would explain why it works for some people, though. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of

Re: Tab Behavior

2010-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
oadInBackground;true browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick;true -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-se

Re: Tab Behavior

2010-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
and newsgroups links. Be aware that if you set middle click to open in tab it breaks middle click in scroll bar to position the slider in news/mail. I tried to report this as a bug, but it's apparently intended behavior. I live with it, shift-left_click positions the slider just fine. --

Re: Tab Behavior

2010-03-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
x27;open in new tab' and then you can left click to open in same tab, middle click for new. Then you can always have it do what you want for any given link. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&quo

Re: quote folding

2010-03-15 Thread Bill Davidsen
out:config and define a value "extensions.checkCompatibility" type boolean, value false. Then you can install about anything. Doesn't make it work, of course... -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of

Re: Is anyone else having problems with Email Filters?

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Anyone out there using filters a fair bit and encountering anything like this? No, I haven't seen the problem, although I'm certainly watching for it now. Do you use any particular extensions which might contribute? The only thing I run is autofill forms, and that's a browser rath

Re: New mail accounts created in "wrong" location

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
EnorMouse wrote: EnorMouse wrote: Monica wrote: EnorMouse wrote: Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM

Re: Gmail interface for SM 2

2010-03-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
t, allowing you to read from several machines without losing the mail. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing l

Re: New mail accounts created in "wrong" location

2010-03-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Monica wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Monica wrote: I am using SM 2.0.3. Windows XP pro sp3. After one of the last 2-3 SM updates (can´t remember exactly which one) the following happens when I create a new mail account; SM for some reason puts it in a "wrong" location on my hard driv

Re: add to status bar

2010-03-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rick Merrill wrote: is there a way to add, say, create-message to the status bar? That's what the "Compose" button does. I assume you mean in mail, since it makes no sense in the browser... -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incom

Re: How to report a bug in SeaMonkey 2.0.3

2010-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
ch - fill in the bug info, lots of prompting to help, people will ask if more info is needed. - click the commit button and finally - don't expect fast response unless it's a earthshaking bug -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear fr

Re: New mail accounts created in "wrong" location

2010-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
rs to put it in NetScape... Quick detective work. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mo

Re: SM Keeps Asking Twice Do You Want To Work Online?

2010-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
online. I believe that clears (or used to clear) the lock file properly. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey ma

Re: Problems after upgrading SeaMonkey from v1.18 to v2.03

2010-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
places and slower in others. You notice the slower more than you appreciate the faster. Most of us do. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

Re: Problems after upgrading SeaMonkey from v1.18 to v2.03

2010-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
.X is currently running. That doesn't seem to work if you are on one machine (A) and have SM running and want to start SM on (B) where SM is also running. Total PITA. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.&qu

Re: SM2.1: Workaround for remote timestamp on downloads?

2010-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
choose. On Linux/Mac it's less critical, the accessed and changed dates can be used for sorting or searching. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot __

Re: Autoupdate of SeaMonkey 2.x.x

2010-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Phillip Jones wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: »Q« wrote: In<news:cl6dnehxds4_xgnwnz2dnuvz_gudn...@mozilla.org>, Mark Hansen wrote: On 3/7/2010 5:10 PM, Philip Chee wrote: On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:37:18 +0100, Ray_Net wrote: Prefable, so you can choose to NEVER have this happen and inst

Re: Email Backups

2010-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
o you backup your SM emails? On Linux I keep a copy on another machine I update regularly AND when something important comes in. For off-size I make a compressed tar file of my critical data (not just mozilla files) and put it on a USB drive which leaves when I do. -- Bill Davidsen "We ha

Re: Autoupdate of SeaMonkey 2.x.x

2010-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
nnel, you demonstrate the law of unintended results. So there are reasons for waiting a bit until you are sure there isn't a rash of posts about problems. People should decide which risk they want to take. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incom

Re: Autoupdate of SeaMonkey 2.x.x

2010-03-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
e auto upgrade vs. manual, I'm less convinced that most people want the application to change under them once they get it. I get that from some stats on Windows users being more afraid that an update MSFT pushes will break their computer than something done by evil doers. -- Bill Davidse

Re: Mail in the In box just disappeared

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
t;raw" mail message. The latest thing I see is messages from popular vendors about orders canceled, delayed, price change, etc. When you open it tries to D/L javascript. Note "tries" in my case, I'm a devout paranoid and check stuff like that. -- Bill Davidsen "

Re: Autoupdate of SeaMonkey 2.x.x

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
reboot, nothing remotely "background" about it. The material can be gotten background if you enable that, but you don't actually run the updates until a boot. Go to www.seamonkey-project.org install the latest version; and future versions, as they become available, will act just like

Re: Problem with imap

2010-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
h are on the client, right? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mo

Re: Seamonkey 2.03

2010-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
t was one of the security/authentication options. Are you thinking of the problem that occurred with news servers which allow access w/o auth, but post requires auth? If you tried to post you would get back a message that your SMTP server had a configuration error. Fixed in 2.0.2. -- Bill Da

Re: Chatzilla "Bookmarks"

2010-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
work, and when testing for a reply found that it will if you manually force it. Reported: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550226 -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicke

Re: How long is the bug processing delay?

2010-03-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Thorsten Dorr wrote: Bill Davidsen schrieb: Tomorrow is the 1st birthday of one of my bugs. It was reported properly, it was confirmed a few days later. Even though it was confirmed the status didn't change from NEW. And checking I see that your config of bugzilla doesn't include

Re: 50 Tests for Seamonkey css3 implementation

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
JeffM wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: http://twitter.com/WilliamGail/statuses/9896362150 What a crap link. A page with 4 instances of unnecessary JavaScript and not even the actual link to the page but a shortened link. Here's the actual link: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/50-aw

Re: How long is the bug processing delay?

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Tomorrow is the 1st birthday of one of my bugs. It was reported properly, it was confirmed a few days later. Even though it was confirmed the status didn't change from NEW. And checking I see that your config of bugzilla doesn't include

How long is the bug processing delay?

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
if anyone would like to help start the gestation period. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-se

Re: Seamonkey Hogging CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
rs, and 70 RSS feeds, so that's okay with me. I have been told that the Windows version leaks memory more than Linux, due to a library, but I would suspect animated images first. In the morning when I open some of my Slashdot links I see high CPU as the images not blocked play once.

Re: Email trouble with v2.0.3 - maybe

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
s a list of free online network utilities. It was a complete waste of time. I suspect you didn't follow the directions. You type in the address and then click the button. If you hit ENTER instead of clicking you get a bunch of ads. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear fro

Re: Chatzilla "Bookmarks"

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
hen you select the server. I actually think you can auto attach to servers at startup, but that seemed likely to be a PITA so I never tried. :-) -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from t

Re: 50 Tests for Seamonkey css3 implementation

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
Robert Kaiser wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: The question is if these are compliant with some new standard. Not a finalized one, but one that is still in work and subject to change. Current "SeaMonkey 2.1a1pre" development builds have experimental support for a number of those unfina

Re: seamonkey-2.x.. shortcomings (linux)

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
01micko wrote: On Mar 1, 9:35 am, Bill Davidsen wrote: 01micko wrote: Hi all I am far from an experienced linux user, however I can find my way around a linux system. I use Puppy Linux which uses Seamonkey as the default browser. Now, in Seamonkey-1.x series I (and all other Puppy users

50 Tests for Seamonkey css3 implementation

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Davidsen
I presume Firefox would do as well or poorly, these actually work with some other browsers. The Coke can one works with SM. http://twitter.com/WilliamGail/statuses/9896362150 The question is if these are compliant with some new standard. No, DOM inspector is not a standard. -- Bill Davidsen

Re: seamonkey-2.x.. shortcomings (linux)

2010-02-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
een, there being no directory anywhere in sight. As far as the action goes, I assume you would right click and use either "save image" or "save link target" to get the pop-up menu and select a destination. Other than installing Puppy in a VM I can't imagine what you

Re: Turn Composer into a full-fledged word processor?

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
uot; is a red herring! pls ignore. In an ideal world word processor should produce validatable html code. I have to try OO the next time I'm using a current version. See how well that does. But Composer, at least the recent one, is good enough for most of what I do. My needs are simple. ;-)

Re: Turn Composer into a full-fledged word processor?

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
e are two standards, the other is "works with IE" regardless. Someone mentioned a site which snooped browser and excluded other browsers, because "people keep complaining about my HTML." Microsoft is a $tandard to some people. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear f

Re: Warning to upgrade

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Daniel wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Daniel wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Why is 2.0.3 telling me there's a new version available and I should download 2.0.3? Is it looking at the version of the default SM in /usr/bin instead of what I'm running which is 2.0.3 (not pre on this machine)

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
»Q« wrote: In <news:bjgdnqvnyow2phjwnz2dnuvz_t2dn...@mozilla.org>, Phillip Jones wrote: »Q« wrote: In<news:5bodnqqmjzpbchnwnz2dnuvz_rudn...@mozilla.org>, Phillip Jones wrote: »Q« wrote: In<news:ttednbkfn91trbnwnz2dnuvz_hcdn...@mozilla.org>, Bill Davidsen wrote: Wel

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Phillip Jones wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: »Q« wrote: In<news:5bodnqqmjzpbchnwnz2dnuvz_rudn...@mozilla.org>, Phillip Jones wrote: »Q« wrote: In<news:ttednbkfn91trbnwnz2dnuvz_hcdn...@mozilla.org>, Bill Davidsenwrote: Well this is the very first and o

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: On 2/24/2010 6:17 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Daniel wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 10-02-23 10:38 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 10-02-23 2:42 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 10-02-22 12:34 PM, Paul B

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Phillip Jones wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Shouting won't help. Trying to help to get code into place does. Scratching your own itch by actually working on it is the best way to get things done in any open source project. I thought you

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: It's a fine line to walk when lobbying for change -- you have to push hard enough, but not too hard, give credit, but not too much credit, and so forth. Right, but when people place you a

Re: Turn Composer into a full-fledged word processor?

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
it should be. For heavy-duty composition you can use Open Office. I suggest that rather than Word, since the output of Word has been reported as being IE-centric rather than HTML standards conforming. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the m

Re: Warning to upgrade

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Daniel wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Why is 2.0.3 telling me there's a new version available and I should download 2.0.3? Is it looking at the version of the default SM in /usr/bin instead of what I'm running which is 2.0.3 (not pre on this machine)? I leave the distribution default i

Re: 1.1.18 => 2.0.x migrate ignores chatzilla?

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jens Hatlak wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Why do I get an empty chatzilla after migrate? No preference, no scripts, empty virgin CZ like I downloaded it from the website. It's bad enough that users have to migrate every profile totally manually if they have more than one, but the CZ d

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: On 2/24/2010 5:57 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: It's a fine line to walk when lobbying for change -- you have to push hard enough, but not too hard, give credit, but not too much credit, and so forth. From what I can

Warning to upgrade

2010-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
ble or pre out of /usr/local/ instead. This is not an error report, I'd just like to know why in case I set up a user this way. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicke

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
Phillip Jones wrote: »Q« wrote: In<news:5bodnqqmjzpbchnwnz2dnuvz_rudn...@mozilla.org>, Phillip Jones wrote: »Q« wrote: In<news:ttednbkfn91trbnwnz2dnuvz_hcdn...@mozilla.org>, Bill Davidsen wrote: Well this is the very first and only person I have every met who actually /li

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
ise." It deserves better, his solution is really functionally quite good, and the user interface is usable. I certainly can move forward to other issues, flatten one nail and more stick up. ;-) My list of things which really piss me off is down to two, and one is a one time problem while the o

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
ad to be accepted by Firefox because it would be in the common code. In any case, motivation wanes now that there is an add-in which is usable if not perfect. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-24 Thread Bill Davidsen
ore than the minimum work to make it useful, taken pride in your creation, etc. If the pride of workmanship doesn't justify the time to improve further, don't. If you're looking for appreciation, it's in the dictionary, between apathy and asinine. -- Bill Davidsen &

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Evan Davidson wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Think an order form where you have six offices where things are sent and the recipient's name, address, phone, and billing info are SETS of values rather than unrelated alternate values for each field. Check out the Autofill Forms extensi

Re: Yenc decoder

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
complaints. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.or

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Evan Davidson wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Rick Merrill wrote: I really love the new sort of fill-in-the-blank technique. It takes a little getting used to because at first all you see is the blank entry on the form. But as soon as you type the first letter the pull down list of choice

Re: new form manager is great

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Chris Ilias wrote: On 10-02-22 12:34 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Chris Ilias wrote: On 10-02-21 8:32 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Is this a joke? Of course not. :-) I don't think you believe that all users have the same opinion on every feature. Well, I'm with Bill on this one. Th

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