On 29/04/2016 12:47 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
Part of my problem is that Netscape/Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey has always
worked so well I've had no cause to search for answers for odd questions.
*KUDOS* to generations of developers!!!!
Problems/questions discovered while going through mechanics of creating
a very customized profile and moving existing data to it.
1. Data Manager lists sites that should never have any permanent
reference on my machine.
The only page I could find was
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Data_Manager> It has tabs for Cookies,
Permissions, Preferences, Passwords, and Storage Cookies: (which I
delete daily) and Passwords seem to be handled properly Permissions
and Preferences: - what is function? I can think of no instance where
I would like a site to deviate from my personal defaults for more
than a day. I routinely surf with cookies and JavaScript disabled.
Storage: - What is this?
The Data Manager has serious problems with user friendliness. Be that as
it may, it does kinda sorta work in some respects.
If you don't want sites to deviate from your defaults, don't list them.
Then you'll have no exceptions and none will deviate. But if you want to
visit a site that requires cookies and your default is no cookies, it
won't work. So then you'll have to make an exception, and when you're
done, remove the exception. Kind of a PITA, eh?
Partial workarounds:
1) Set SeaMonkey to accept only session cookies, which means that each
time you shut SM down the cookies are cleared.
2) Set SeaMonkey to Clear Private Data on shutdown (you can define what
it should clear and what it should retain). Once you establish the
definition of data to be cleared, you can do it (CPD) manually as
desired without shutting down: Tools | Clear Private Data... or
CTRL-SHIFT-DEL.
Definition here: Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security | Private Data.
2. In about:config is there any way to discover *ALL* non-default items?
If you click the column heading "Status," the list will be sorted on
that parameter. "Default" appears first (in alphabetical order), "User
set" appears at the end. Click it again to reverse the order.
I don't know how to discover nonstandard (user-created) keys, but all of
those should be "user set" since there can be no default for a key that
doesn't exist out of the box.
When I look at my about:config, I can set user in the search filter, and
it will show all prefs set by the User *in bold* along with those prefs
that that actually have "user" in the pref name.
I suppose, if I had put "user set" in the search filter it might have
only shown those prefs that are User Set!!
--
Daniel
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.40 Build identifier: 20160120202951
or
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SeaMonkey/2.38 Build identifier: 20150903203501
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