On 8/1/2017 7:32 PM, Desiree wrote: > On 8/1/2017 5:02 AM, David E. Ross wrote: >> On 8/1/2017 5:31 AM, Desiree wrote: >>> I've mostly been using a newer profile since January 2017 and was using >>> it when I shut SeaMonkey down and then installed 2.48 and restarted >>> SeaMonkey. It was fine on this profile except it could not do a speed >>> test at dslreports (or anywhere) and get the usual speed. It would get >>> an extremely low download speed (other browsers got normal speed). I >>> had to reboot the computer for SeaMonkey 2.48 to be able to do a speed >>> test correctly which seemed odd. >>> >>> I 've had the new version for a few hours and just now tried to start >>> the default profile (after reading at Mozillazine forums that someone >>> lost their history on their very old default profile but their newer >>> profile on 2.48 was fine). My history is fine on the newer profile >>> (only goes back to January 2017 while history on the default profile >>> goes back as many years as SeaMonkey can keep) but when I tried to start >>> the default profile by switching profiles within SeaMonkey, it would not >>> open. I get a SeaMonkey icon in the task bar but it will not start. It >>> is a VERY OLD profile (MANY YEARS) and, yes, I backed it up before >>> installing 2.48. >>> >>> How do I get SeaMonkey to start in the newer, working profile? I >>> suspect the older, default one is not salvageable (as the poster at >>> Mozillazine thinks about his). This should not have happened though and >>> I blame it on the fact that I could NOT update internally. I have not, >>> on any gecko browser, had good results with being forced to install a >>> new version rather than update internally. >>> >> >> Windows 7 >> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 >> SeaMonkey/2.48 >> >> I just now ran the DSLReports speed test without any problem. I am >> using the same profile that I used with prior SeaMonkey versions; some >> of the files in my profile are over 10 years old. >> >> To start SeaMonkey in a specific profile: >> >> 1. Create a shortcut to the SeaMonkey executable (seamonkey.exe). >> >> 2. Open the properties of the shortcut. >> >> 3. In the Target area of the Properties window, add >> -p xxx >> where "xxx" is the profile's name (not the name of the profile folder, >> but the name you gave the profile). For my primary profile named David, >> it looks like >> "C:\Program Files\SeaMonkey\seamonkey.exe" -p David > > Thanks! I vaguely remember now doing that a long time ago. I have > Windows 8.0 Pro and Start8 but even it doesn't make the Windows Start > Menu enjoyable so I avoid using it and when I wrote the above, I had not > thought about looking at SeaMonkey there (I access SeaMonkey via Quick > Start menu). So, today I clicked on SeaMonkey in the Start 8 Start Menu > and saw Profile Manager, opened it and switched to the newer profile > which started just fine. >
Have you considered Classic Shell from <http://www.classicshell.net/>? It works with Windows 8 (and 7, 8.1, and others). It allows you to tailor much of the Windows user interface (but not all) to resemble Windows XP. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> President Trump demands loyalty to himself from Republican members of Congress. I always thought that members of Congress -- House and Senate -- were required to be loyal to the people of the United States. In any case, they all swore an oath of office to be loyal to the Constitution. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
