David E. Ross wrote:
On 7/23/12 4:31 AM, Margo Guda wrote:
Hello,
I have been on the beta channel for Seamonkey since I cannot even remember.
Today a new beta was automatically installed, but it would not run correctly
- did not ask for master password, and did not load any web pages or log on
to my email provider. So I downloaded the previous official version (2.11)
and installed it over the existing installation.
Now all my addons (and I had quite a few!) are GONE. Please help me restore
my add-ons, I am totally lost without them. How do I find them again? I
can't believe they are totally lost?
THanks...
Do you know what add-ons you had? I maintain an inventory (a Word .doc
file) of all software I install, including the version numbers, the
dates of installation, and the sources. Specifically for extensions, I
also capture the results of using the PrefBar extension's button
Infolist, which provides a list of all extensions.
Unless you are a tester, I would question why you would use a beta
product.
Beta builds are not released with the purpose of checking whether or not
a build is "deemed okay to release as done."
Alpha = here's a preview of the work we've been doing. We still have
more to add and change.
Beta = we have all the features implemented, but there are bugs, we
wouldn't let in a final release.
Release Candidate = We consider it ready, but want to make sure.
-- Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>
Well, I like to have the new features to test out, maybe not systematically
but by using them normally. It usually worked out for me.
I don't have a full list of all the Add ons I had, but how does that help? I
can reconstruct most of them, but the files and subfolders of the Extensions
folder are also gone. But I cannot find anything in the recycle bin. There
are a number of folders that I think were created by extensions, and
probably contain settings - those I think I could get back if I reinstalled
the extension. But does this mean I have to reinstall all extensions? Some
may not even install, being listed as not-compatible, although they did work
for me.
I have a profile backup that does contain some of my current extensions, but
it is a year old, I am not sure if it is a good idea to restore that. I
would use mozbackup for that, and only restore the extensions, but still...
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