Seamonkey 2.03 to 2.5 lost plugins

[Jim Byrnes]

On 12/14/2011 08:06 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 04:57 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> On 12/14/2011 12:28 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>> On 12/14/2011 09:18 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>>> Just manually installed Seamonkey 2.5 after having used the repository
>>>> version Seamonkey 2.03.  Everything seemed to go well.  All my previous
>>>> bookmarks showed up as well as my email and newsgroup folders and
>>>> subscriptions.  A couple of extensions were listed as not compatible and
>>>> were disabled. The problem is that none of the plugins installed under
>>>> version 2.03 are shown as installed under 2.5. The plugin page is
>>>> completely empty.
>>>>
>>>> How can I best get them to install in 2.5?
>>> ...
>>> Close SM, go to:
>>> /home/<user>/.mozilla/seamonkey/<profile>.default
>>> rename 'pluginreg.dat' to 'pluginreg.dat_old'
>>>
>>> Restart SM&   the plugin file should be repopulated (it's a text file
>>> that you can view in gedit).
>>
>> For some reason that did not work.  The pluginreg.dat it generated looks
>> strange and is exactly the same as the origianl.  Its not long so I
>> copied it here.
>
> That's bizare. Can you try with a different/new profile to see if it is
> profile related?
> ...
>

Sure.  I had a test profile created awhile ago with 2.03 that I made no 
changes to and it acted exactly the same way and profile.dat was 
identical.  I then created a brand new profile and profile.dat was again 
the same.

Regards,  Jim