moz & seamonkey both hosed-further developments
anthony baldwin
anthonybaldwin at optonline.net
Mon Nov 13 03:55:43 UTC 2006
anthony baldwin wrote:
> anthony baldwin wrote:
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>> Hi...
>>
>> I don´t know what I did...
>> I tried to install some Mozilla Dictionary extension...that´s the only
>> thing I can think of...but it did NOT successfully install.
>> Anyway, since then, the top navigation bar (with: file edit view, etc.)
>> is basically gone. I mean, I can see where it is supposed to
>> be, but it is way tiny, and none of the menus are visible or accessible.
>> And the status bar at the bottom now lacks the former icons to open
>> moz-mail, composer, address-book, etc.
>> Basically, moz is crippled, and lacking important function, for which
>> LOVE it.
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> Oh yeah, and Moz is not showing any of my bookmarks at all, even though
> the entire bookmarks
> html file is still there in /home/me/.mozilla (and I was able to import
> them into seamonkey and firefox).
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>> I DLed the seamonkey project, to give that a shot, anyway, and it is
>> functional, except the status bar on that is
>> HUGE, taking up a good two inches of screen real estate, which basically
>> sucks.
>>
>> Sure, I have Firefox and Thunderbird installed but THEY SUCK! Why?
>> clicking on a mailto: link in Firefox
>> does absolutely nothing. clicking on a link within a mail message in
>> Thunderbird does absolutely nothing.
>> I would have to go through a lot of annoying copying & pasting. And
>> Firefox doesn´t tell you when Thunderbird has received a message, but
>> Moz, while I am reading or working online, tells me that new mail has
>> arrived.
>> I need all of that functionality for my work, thus, I choose to have an
>> integrated browser/mail suite (yeah, I and I sometimes
>> even use composer for some basic page editing, too. It´s simple and
>> lightweight, has both wysiwyg and html tabs,
>> and is integrated with my browser...or was, until Moz stopped working).
>> I would get better performance with
>> Konq and Kmail, but I don´t like Kmail (I like Konq, I´ll admit).
>>
>> So...anyway, I´m not here to start a browser war...I just want my
>> beloved Mozilla working functionally, or, Seamonkey to not have a 2 inch
>> status bar. Tanto faz.
>>
Actually, at this stage, Seamonkey is giving the same problem that Moz
1.7.12 was with the nav bar and status bar
(only worse, since the status bar is still huge).
>> Any ideas?
>> Thanks
>> abraços
>> tony
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