Ant wrote:
On 10/1/2019 3:51 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
Did you install the x64 over the x86? If yes the release notes are
your friend
After a second close reading of the release notes, I don't see
anything relevant. Do you?
Did you uninstall x86 (32-bit) before installing x64 (64-bit) version?
You can't have both and overinstall.
Well, if you read the HUGE BRIGHT RED text at the top of the release
notes, you'll see:
Please download the full installer from the downloads section and
install SeaMonkey 2.49.5 manually over the previous version.
It doesn't say to uninstall the previous version first, until you get
down to the fine print for very old versions:
SeaMonkey 2.49.5 will no longer offer to migrate your data from
SeaMonkey 1.x or Mozilla 1.x at the first start after installation (bug
689437). In order to upgrade from such an old version, install the last
SeaMonkey 2.0 release first, do the one-time profile upgrade, uninstall
SeaMonkey 2.0 and then install your target release (e.g. this one).
Since I wasn't migrating from such an ancient version, that didn't apply.
If I'd been really curious and followed the link to "our install and
uninstall document"
<https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/install-and-uninstall>, I would
have seen:
To install SeaMonkey by downloading the SeaMonkey installer, follow
these steps:
1. Click the Download link in the Windows column on the site you're
downloading SeaMonkey from to download the installer file (SeaMonkey
Setup 2.1.exe or similar file name) to your machine.
2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file and double-click the
installer file icon on your machine to begin the Setup program.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions in the setup program (see the note
about Unknown Publisher warnings above). The program starts
automatically the first time.
Once again, nothing about uninstalling the previous version first.
So a reasonable person who isn't a mind-reader would not think to do that.
Even so, earlier tonight I did go into Control Panel and saw both
versions were installed. I uninstalled both and then reinstalled 2.49.5.
That didn't change the fact that the Windows "Notification Area Icons"
panel showed two programs, "SeaMonkey" and "seamonkey.exe." I set both
to "Show icon and notifications," and whichever one is valid seems to be
working as intended. So we can count my issue 2) as resolved.
It also didn't restore the old jump list, but the partially restored one
I'd been working on survived the process. I'm still getting links to
ancient pages that I haven't visited in months listed as "frequently
visited," and I suppose if I keep deleting them it'll eventually work
its way forward to something I really do visit frequently. I mean, it
listed an NHL hockey game from last spring!
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Paul B. Gallagher
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