On 07/04/11 05:18, Jay O'Brien wrote:
I would like to install Thunderbird and Firefox in addition to SeaMonkey so that I can verify ISP and server
problems with "supported" applications and avoid the support personnel finger pointing to the
"unsupported" and unknown to them "SeaMonkey".
My ISP has an intermittent SMTP problem I've tried to get them to fix, they say
it is my unsupported mail client. My bank had an access problem they blamed on
SeaMonkey, but the Bank ultimately fixed their problem. I would like to be able
to avoid these issues, but I want to continue to use SeaMonkey.
Is it possible to install Thunderbird in addition to SeaMonkey so that it will
use the SeaMonkey profile and mail files? Is it possible to install Firefox in
addition to SeaMonkey and have it use the SeaMonkey profile, password, and
bookmark files?
It is my desire to be able to use Thunderbird or Firefox when troubleshooting a
problem, thus avoiding the support folks blaming SeaMonkey for the problem
being reviewed.
Help Please?
Jay O'Brien
Folsom, California
First, the bad news:
- You can NEVER use one profile in more than one program instance at a time.
- Normally you shouldn't use a single profile in different applications,
there may be incompatibilities between them. For instance in the past,
Firefox moved its bookmarks from bookmark.htm (or something) to
places.sqlite much earlier than SeaMonkey did. Some preferences may have
different meanings or different defaults. And so on. (Whenever a Mozilla
app sees that a preference has been set to what has now become the
current default, it omits the preference when saving at closedown. The
next time the default changes, you'll get the new default. Now if a
Boolean pref defaults to true in Firefox and to false in SeaMonkey...
YSWIM.)
- It *is* possible to run Firefox and/or SeaMonkey and/or Thunderbird
all at the same time, but each with its own profile. You might even set
up the same mail accounts in SeaMonkey and Thunderbird, but in that
case, if it's a POP3 server, you'll probably want one of them to "Leave
mail on server". (For IMAP4 leaving mail on server is the normal
behaviour.) Similarly you may define the same bookmarks and passwords in
the *different* profiles used by SeaMonkey and Firefox.
And now the good news:
- With Firefox 4 (or later), SeaMonkey 2.1 beta (or later), you may use
Sync to synchronise passwords, bookmarks, etc. between different
profiles, even between Firefox (for desktop/laptop), Firefox-mobile (for
smartphone) and SeaMonkey. On recent builds, you don't even need an
extension for that.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!
-- Samuel Goldwyn
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