On 11/15/2009 12:10 AM, Richard wrote: > Rufus wrote: >> Richard wrote: >>> Philip Chee wrote: >>>> On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:25:30 -0800, Ant wrote: >>>>> Hi! >>>>> >>>>> Is SeaMonkey ever going to get new v1.1 version or is v1.1.18 it? >>>>> Just wondering since Mozilla doesn't update and support Firefox >>>>> v2.0.0.20 that SM v1.1.18 is based on. >>>> When KaiRo gets back from his holiday, we will re-look at the situation. >>>> Basically Mozilla itself had abandoned the Gecko 1.8.1 platform some >>>> time ago but we were still getting some security fixes from Linux >>>> vendors who continued to upstream their fixes for a while. This seems to >>>> have dried up. We are trying to get a reply from the contact >>>> representing the consortium of Linux vendors that have long lived stable >>>> branches to see how much longer they will maintain this Gecko branch or >>>> if it has been abandoned completely. Unfortunately I fear that the >>>> latter is the case. >>>> >>>> Phil >>>> >>> So were stuck with this ver 2, reminds me of a problem we had with a >>> Netscape version way back, also a ver 2 I think or was it ver 3? >>> Netscape lost a great deal of support and ground to ie after that >>> particular disastrous version. >>> >>> Does anyone know of another Browser suite that allows multiple profiles? >> SM 2.0 allows multiple profiles - they've just hidden the Profile >> Manager without telling anyone...like with a few other features. >> >> Select Switch Profiles after opening SM 2.0, and you'll get the Profile >> Manager. Once you have more than one, it will come up by default at >> launch. >> > > I spent a week trying to recover my multiple profiles and eventually > gave up, how can the developers of sm not see this as an issue and have > something in the new version to take care of this? or at the very least > warn users of this ISSUE and it is an issue, they really must be stupid. > > I take it the developers are either Linux users or act like Linux users > such egg heads that they believe they are too smart for those of us > unable to code! Well, I have sm at multiple sites and will certainly not > be upgrading to ver2 and if I can find an alternate multi profile system > I will, even if it means moving to the dreaded ie engine perminantly.
I using SeaMonkey 2 on Windows XP SP2. I installed it one evening and went to bed. After breakfast the next morning, I migrated my primary profile and three others successfully. No, the instructions for migrating profiles were not as clear as they should be. But installing SeaMonkey 2 in a different location than SeaMonkey 1.1.18 was important. Backing-up my SeaMonkey 1.1.18 before installing SeaMonkey 2 proved to be important (primarily because, at first, I tried installing SeaMonkey 2 directly over SeaMonkey 1.1.18). After installation, I found that I had to review about:config for SeaMonkey 2 to correct preferences that pointed to my local files. They had to point to the SeaMonkey 2 files instead of SeaMonkey 1.1.18 files. I also had to set some preference variables in user.js in my SeaMonkey 2 profiles because of open bug reports #526399 and #338549, but I already had entries in user.js for SeaMonkey 1.1.x bugs. Finally, I submitted a few bug reports of my own; but I've submitted many such reports against SeaMonkey 1.1.x. Now, I'm using SeaMonkey 2. I found that I needed one less extension because that extension's capabilities were better implemented in the basic SeaMonkey. I found that the long-awaited Web fonts capability had been implemented. And I found a number of old bugs that I had been tracking are now closed, not merely because they were asserted to be closed but as a result of my own testing. I will likely remove SeaMonkey 1.1.18 in about a month. I've used it only to check to see if certain SeaMonkey 2 anomalies also existed in SeaMonkey 1.1.18. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
