Food for thought

2008-12-21 Thread John Doue
Robert's post SeaMonkey Project Goals - The Summary/Excerpt and a recent request for help BookMarks,hope this group is better than others on the FF NG triggered some thoughts I wish to share: - Den's post of the FF NG requested such a simple information - which had not been answered

Re: Food for thought

2008-12-21 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:14:08 +0200 John Doue notw...@yahoo.com wrote: - Den's post of the FF NG requested such a simple information - which had not been answered by respectable members of that NG - that I hesitated answering it, for fearing of missing the obvious and making a fool of

Re: 1.1.14 crashes on Cagle BLOG

2008-12-21 Thread robert . gault
John Doue wrote: robert.ga...@att.net wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Just drops dead on http://cagle.com/news/BLOG trying to look at his latest cartoon for the French. Week-old SM 2.0a3 was able to open the same page just fine. Tested under Fedora FC9 and FC10, using the version from Mozilla

Re: What controls system font size?

2008-12-21 Thread Tony
Bill Davidsen wrote: That is, the fonts used to present menus, etc. The Fedora Linux releases of seamonkey have those fonts set to something very small (perhaps 4-6pt) and I can't seem to change them. Tried: - font settings in about:config - using other themes The first changes font sizes in

Re: Playing streaming Windows Media video (SM 1.1.14, Kubuntu 8.10)

2008-12-21 Thread Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
Rob Lindauer wrote: I'm trying to play some streaming video (Doppler radar at http://www.wfsb.com/video/9688512/index.html/index.html) via SM 1.1.14 on my Kutuntu 8.10 system. I have .wmv files associated with Kaffeine via my SM preferences, and they open right up in my browser. When I try

Re: OT: was Re: Why is SM not rendering the website page

2008-12-21 Thread NoOp
On 12/21/2008 12:00 PM, Moz Champion (Dan) wrote: Daniel wrote: NoOp wrote: On 12/20/2008 05:39 PM, Daniel wrote: NoOp wrote: On 12/20/2008 05:51 AM, Ray_Net wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Ray_Net wrote: snip Why not install Prefbar then you can easily turn it off on

Re: OT: was Re: Why is SM not rendering the website page

2008-12-21 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/21/2008 2:26 PM, NoOp wrote: On 12/21/2008 12:00 PM, Moz Champion (Dan) wrote: Daniel wrote: NoOp wrote: On 12/20/2008 05:39 PM, Daniel wrote: NoOp wrote: On 12/20/2008 05:51 AM, Ray_Net wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Ray_Net wrote: snip Why not install Prefbar

ZDNet article on browser password protection tests--SM stands where?

2008-12-21 Thread D. K. Kraft
Among ZDNet's blogs for 12/15/08 was this posting: Major Web browsers fail password protection tests (http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2305). The test in question was performed by Chapin Information Services, and the full details can be found here: http://www.info-svc.com/news/2008/12-12/

Re: Food for thought

2008-12-21 Thread Robert Kaiser
John Doue wrote: Question 1 - How do we make SM a realistic choice for basic computer users, meaning those who tend to be satisfied with what they get when they buy a machine. Vista and all its BS, unavoidable Explorer. Sorry to be blunt, but I don't see those as our target group, I see those

Re: What controls system font size?

2008-12-21 Thread Daniel
Tony wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: That is, the fonts used to present menus, etc. The Fedora Linux releases of seamonkey have those fonts set to something very small (perhaps 4-6pt) and I can't seem to change them. Tried: - font settings in about:config - using other themes The first changes

Re: Food for thought

2008-12-21 Thread Daniel
Robert Kaiser wrote: John Doue wrote: Question 1 - How do we make SM a realistic choice for basic computer users, meaning those who tend to be satisfied with what they get when they buy a machine. Vista and all its BS, unavoidable Explorer. Sorry to be blunt, but I don't see those as our

Re: SeaMonkey Project Goals - The Summary/Excerpt

2008-12-21 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:15:03 -0800 Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo peter.potamus.the.purple.hi...@gmail.com wrote: NoOp wrote: I primarily killed/ignored that thread on dev becuase: 1) it was on dev rather than on mozilla.support.seamonkey where the 'users' actually are, I agree with

Re: ZDNet article on browser password protection tests--SM stands where?

2008-12-21 Thread D. K. Kraft
With patience akin to a cat's, Barry Edwin Gilmour, on 12/21/2008 6:52 PM typed: D. K. Kraft wrote: Among ZDNet's blogs for 12/15/08 was this posting: Major Web browsers fail password protection tests (http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2305). The test in question was performed by Chapin

Re: What controls system font size?

2008-12-21 Thread Tony
Daniel wrote: Tony wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: That is, the fonts used to present menus, etc. The Fedora Linux releases of seamonkey have those fonts set to something very small (perhaps 4-6pt) and I can't seem to change them. Tried: - font settings in about:config - using other themes The