Re: .NET Framework 4.0 Issue

2010-08-31 Thread David E. Ross
On 8/31/10 10:54 AM, Ken wrote: > On Aug 31, 9:45 am, "David E. Ross" wrote: >> Is your server sniffing for "Firefox"? It should instead sniff for >> "Gecko". >> >> However, if you make your site compliant with the W3C specificati

Re: Left and right arrow keys to go to previous/next.

2010-08-31 Thread David E. Ross
On 8/31/10 1:37 PM, Ron Hunter wrote: > On 8/31/2010 9:56 AM, David E. Ross wrote: >> On 8/31/10 5:41 AM, Phillip Jones wrote: >>> Ed Mullen wrote: >>>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>>> On 8/30/10 1:54 PM, Ron Hunter wrote: >>>>>> On 8/30

Re: Tabbrowser setting ?

2010-09-01 Thread David E. Ross
can comment the reason for the setting: user_pref("browser.tabs.tooltippreview.enable", false); // suppress tooltip displays of Web pages Note: The semi-colon at the end of the first line is important. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks

Re: Java and Seamonkey?

2010-09-02 Thread David E. Ross
nce 19 Mar 2009. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross ___ support-seamonkey mailing l

Re: Forwarding by Message Filter

2010-09-03 Thread David E. Ross
thout a Re: or Fwd: (unless that was in the original message). The From: line shows the original sender's address followed with "by way of [my address]" in parentheses. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient,

Re: Forwarding by Message Filter

2010-09-03 Thread David E. Ross
address in your message is real, I can send you a copy of the installer file. It will still work with Windows XP. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large cor

Re: forum not posting messages?

2010-09-05 Thread David E. Ross
es newsgroup services outsourced from ISPs, including the ISP I use. I am seeing excessive delays both with news.mozilla.org and with general newsgroups (i.e., Usenet and alt.*). -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstr

Re: forum not posting messages?

2010-09-06 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/5/10 6:58 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 9/5/10 7:08 AM, Beverly Howard wrote: >> This is a test... I posted two replies this morning and neither has >> appeared on the forum. >> >> Beverly Howard > > This is apparently a general problem with GigaNews, st

Re: SeaMonkey 2.0.7 Security Update

2010-09-08 Thread David E. Ross
inux > > WFM - exceptsomewhere along the lines, when I click the "x" to close > the browser whilst it's showing several tabs, it just closes, no asking > if I want to close all or not. I've noted this in SM 2.1a2, as well, but > just thought it was a partial

Re: SeaMonkey 2.0.7 Security Update

2010-09-08 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/8/10 10:19 AM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 9/8/10 3:40 AM, Daniel wrote: >> Robert Kaiser wrote: >>> As part of Mozilla's ongoing stability and security update process, >>> SeaMonkey 2.0.7 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free >>>

Re: Crashes after 2.0.7 update - possible fix

2010-09-08 Thread David E. Ross
ne of which was in a folder named components. I saw the crash only if I launched the Profile Manager when SeaMonkey was not already operating. With compreg.dat deleted from components, I don't see that crash anymore. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> I am again filtering and

Re: Stable version of Seamonkey

2010-09-09 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/9/10 4:31 PM, baitman wrote: > Hello, What version of SeaMonkey can be use with window 98se that is > stable. > thanks > Baitmn SeaMonkey 1.1.19 -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> I am again filtering and ignoring all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleG

Re: Google Maps and SM

2010-09-11 Thread David E. Ross
ours. However, there is already a bug report about Google maps doing invalid sniffing for "Firefox" instead of "Gecko": #504530 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504530>. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a

Re: Google Maps and SM

2010-09-11 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/11/10 11:43 AM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 9/11/10 9:08 AM, Beverly Howard wrote: >> In addition to the google/seamonky search issues currently being >> discussed, I'm experiencing a serious problem trying to use >> http://maps.google.com (currently running 1

Re: SeaMonkey 2.0.8 Available

2010-09-16 Thread David E. Ross
file and installed it via a script I made based on <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:Manually_Installing_a_MAR_file>. I still wish bug #340330 were implemented so that I would not need to maintain my script. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks

Re: 2.08 update turns on Tabs

2010-09-16 Thread David E. Ross
de). Make sure your settings are what you want. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross __

Re: Education on User Agent Strings

2010-09-16 Thread David E. Ross
revert back to not spoofing. However, the current versions of these extensions are not necessarily compatible with SeaMonkey 1.x. If you are not ready to update to SeaMonkey 2.x, you need to search for older versions of these extensions. For a discussion of sniffing and spoofing, see my <

Re: SeaMonkey 2.0.8 Available

2010-09-16 Thread David E. Ross
ts in the latest version of TB as well. > Are you sure this problem is not caused by filters in the newsgroup servers? Audio and video files embedded in messages travel the Internet as attachments, not inline. They become inline when received and mer

Re: SeaMonkey 2.0.8 Available

2010-09-16 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/16/10 3:41 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 9/16/10 2:57 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: >>> Daniel wrote: >>>> Phillip Jones wrote: >>>>> Leonidas Jones wrote: >>>>>> Rich Gray wrote: >>>>>>>

Re: automatic upgrade without notice or (explicit) permission

2010-09-17 Thread David E. Ross
[Edit > Preferences]. 2. On the Preferences window, select [Advanced > Software Installation] under Category (on the left side). 3. On the Software Installation pane, uncheck the "Allow web sites to install extensions and updates" checkbox. 4. Select the OK button. -- Da

Re: SeaMonkey 2.0.8 Available

2010-09-19 Thread David E. Ross
Es) and thus are not software discrepancies. * Of the 94 that are still open, another 21 involve Web sites that are sniffing for "Firefox" instead of "Gecko". These are bugs in the affected Web sites, not in any Mozilla-based product. * Of the 94 of my bug reports that

Re: Help? exact font? sort filters

2010-09-19 Thread David E. Ross
g > through all hundreds or so filters? You have to sort filters manually, using the Move Up and Move Down buttons on the Message Filters window. Fonts are specified by name (e.g., Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet). Or do you mean font-size? -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyo

Re: automatic upgrade without notice or (explicit) permission

2010-09-20 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/20/10 10:05 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 9/17/10 7:39 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: >>> ...how do I reconfigure SeaMonkey not to automatically >>> install anything until I say so? > ... >> ... >> 3. On the Software Installa

Re: Start up Error for https://www.uhcretiree.com/

2010-09-20 Thread David E. Ross
ozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100914 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross

Re: Why so many "up-grades"?

2010-09-21 Thread David E. Ross
clap clap ) > Tanya They are NOT upgrades. They are updates. The latest (2.0.8) was to fix a new problem that was accidentally introduced in 2.0.7. In general, updates with only the last (third) digit in the version number represent fixes for either security vulnerabilities or critical probl

Extension Update Available

2010-09-23 Thread David E. Ross
p/firefox-showip/) -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross ___ support-seamonkey mailing

New Add-ons Manager (was: Extension Update Available)

2010-09-23 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/23/10 5:11 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On launching SeaMonkey, I saw a popup informing me that an update to one > of my installed add-ons is now available. The message did not say which > of 8 add-ons has the update. I consider the failure to identify which > add-on has a new up

Re: Password Manager Not Working on Some Sites

2010-09-24 Thread David E. Ross
ir code on the login > page? Or, even better, could I add something to a file? > > Many thanks for any information on this. See <http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-remember-passwords/>. This works for SeaMonkey, too. Also see bug #425145 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cg

Re: Password Manager Not Working on Some Sites

2010-09-24 Thread David E. Ross
e? >>> >>> Many thanks for any information on this. >> >> It's possible that those sites in question do not allow auto-password >> entry and only manual entry is allowed. >> > > How do they DO that? For bank sites I think it should be de

Re: New Add-ons Manager

2010-09-25 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/25/10 6:53 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 9/23/10 5:11 PM, David E. Ross wrote: >>> On launching SeaMonkey, I saw a popup informing me that an update to one >>> of my installed add-ons is now available. The message did not say which >>

Can't Get Hotmail

2010-09-30 Thread David E. Ross
d disabiling Ad-Block Plus. None of this helps. I've also tried using IE 7. About three lines of text show, too briefly to make out what they are saying. Then I get a blank screen. Does anyone know what is happening? -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks gove

Re: Can't Get Hotmail

2010-09-30 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/30/10 10:27 AM, David E. Ross wrote: > I have been trying to check my Hotmail account via the Web. When I go > to <http://www.hotmail.com/>, all I see is a blank page. > > I've tried spoofing Firefox. I've tried safe mode. I've tried viewing > all ima

Re: How do I stop seamonkey from pushing updates to my system?

2010-09-30 Thread David E. Ross
ncheck the checkbox for SeaMonkey under "Automatically check for updates to". Instead, I rely on notices in this newsgroup regarding updates to SeaMonkey itself. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstruct

Re: Can't Get Hotmail

2010-09-30 Thread David E. Ross
On 9/30/10 2:09 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > >> I have been trying to check my Hotmail account via the Web. When I go >> to <http://www.hotmail.com/>, all I see is a blank page. > > My wife uses SeaMonkey 1.1.18 (^1) and has a hotmail

Re: Clearing private data -- do it now!

2010-10-01 Thread David E. Ross
d search history". Select the OK button. This should prevent any saving of data you enter into a form. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporati

Re: Problem emailing a .pdf attachment

2010-10-02 Thread David E. Ross
ned IP address is trashed without even reaching the server's spam bucket. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross __

Re: Extension Update Available

2010-10-02 Thread David E. Ross
On 10/2/10 11:51 AM, Rex wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On launching SeaMonkey, I saw a popup informing me that an update to one >> of my installed add-ons is now available. The message did not say which >> of 8 add-ons has the update. I consider the failure to identify

Re: Save Password?...

2010-10-03 Thread David E. Ross
passwords/>. It also works for SeaMonkey. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross ___

Re: Clearing private data -- do it now!

2010-10-05 Thread David E. Ross
n it on and off. >> Safer to just leave it off. >> > > How about two profiles, one with this setting enabled for general > surfing and one with the "Feature" disabled for your banking, etc. > > Daniel That is very much how I operate. My banking profile allows al

Re: Woot site needs more fonts to display correctly

2010-10-09 Thread David E. Ross
5.1.1 > with SM 2.0.8) > [snip] And if I don't use UNIX/Linux? And how is this a SeaMonkey problem? -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a larg

Re: Problems with links on Yahoo Finance

2010-10-10 Thread David E. Ross
Input 0.1.3 (https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/6143/) * ShowIP 0.8.19 (http://code.google.com/p/firefox-showip/) -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureauc

Re: Is it SM or his HTML?

2010-10-10 Thread David E. Ross
On 10/10/10 3:31 PM, d...@kd4e.com wrote: > HF ^^ Change the back slashes (\\) to forward slashes (//). -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked fo

Re: SM 2.08- How I can check site security?

2010-10-13 Thread David E. Ross
way to check the security of a Web page. On the SeaMonkey menu bar, select [View > Page Info]. On the Page Info window, select the Security tab. See the information near the bottom of the Security pane, under "Technical Details". -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyon

Re: Printing first page mostly blank

2010-10-14 Thread David E. Ross
L errors and 31 CSS errors. However, even if the page were error-free, the Gecko Core has serious problems printing pages with long tables. ON your cited page, the list of cities is a table. See, for example, bug #294991 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294991>. -- Davi

Re: Dealing with forwarded messages

2010-10-14 Thread David E. Ross
quote indicators will increase. For the old version of Eudora Lite that I still use for E-mail, there is a plugin that can strip away the quote indicators. Perhaps there is an extension for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey's Mail-News that will do the same. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.

Re: SM Not responding

2010-10-14 Thread David E. Ross
s ago and saw new messages. I am using Thunderbird 3.1.4; but the SeaMonkey 2.0.8 Mail-News component is about the same. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has

Re: Printing first page mostly blank

2010-10-14 Thread David E. Ross
ors: <http://www.rossde.com/internet/Webdevelopers.html> <http://www.rossde.com/PGP/pgp_keyserv.html> <http://rossde.com/test/large_tables.html> All of these pages contain tables and show printing problems similar to what Jim Dell reports as well

Re: invalid security certificate Part 2

2010-10-22 Thread David E. Ross
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558222> -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> I am again filtering and ignoring all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of the amount of spam from that source. ___

Re: invalid security certificate Part 2

2010-10-22 Thread David E. Ross
On 10/22/10 6:48 PM, JD wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 10/22/10 8:01 AM, JD wrote: >>> OK, no takers on the first post so, how do I add a security certificate >>> to SM? I've looked through Help but it's not very clear to me. >>> >>> F

Re: invalid security certificate Part 2

2010-10-22 Thread David E. Ross
On 10/22/10 8:17 PM, JD wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 10/22/10 6:48 PM, JD wrote: >>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>> On 10/22/10 8:01 AM, JD wrote: >>>>> OK, no takers on the first post so, how do I add a security certificate >>>>> t

Re: Password requirement - pop-up box

2010-10-23 Thread David E. Ross
someone could/would explain why this might be > happening - and the action I should take. > > Dave This might be a symptom of bug #338549. However, that bug was supposedly fixed several versions before 2.0.9. See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338549>. -- Dav

Re: invalid security certificate Part 2

2010-10-23 Thread David E. Ross
On 10/23/10 6:33 PM, JD wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 10/22/10 8:17 PM, JD wrote: >>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>> On 10/22/10 6:48 PM, JD wrote: >>>>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>>>> On 10/22/10 8:01 AM, JD wrote: >>>>

Re: Incremental v2.0.10 update problem?

2010-10-28 Thread David E. Ross
D5 hashcode. I delayed installing the update until I had some coffee. I installed the incremental update at 8:43 PDT (15:43 UTC), using a DOS script (.bat file) that I developed early this year. The installation was successful on the first try. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/&g

Re: Printed Phone Numbers

2010-10-31 Thread David E. Ross
555-1212 or (212)5551212. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross ___ support-

Re: I'm getting message that Google Docs are not supported - using newest upgrade of Seamonkey 2.01

2010-10-31 Thread David E. Ross
lanation of "sniffing" and how to defeat it. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross __

Re: Can you see the pictures at this link?

2010-11-01 Thread David E. Ross
lbert-rally.php?img=25 No problem with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 without any spoofing of Firefox (see Ray_Net reply), with Flash blocked, without the Mnenhy extension (see Rickles reply), and with images from other domains blocked.

Re: Problem with

2010-11-03 Thread David E. Ross
Further, I see a sublist under the details of item #2, running from 1 to 15; I do not see the problem there. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> I am again filtering and ignoring all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/

Re: Problem with

2010-11-03 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/3/10 7:42 AM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 11/3/10 4:22 AM, Hana Skoumalova wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I use SM 2.0.3 on Linux and I encountered a strange problem with >> displaying items in ordered list (). Twelve items are displayed >> correctly, but the thirte

Re: Problem with

2010-11-03 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/3/10 2:26 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > >> In any case, get rid of the , , , and tags. They >> are not needed. Their presence makes your page look like tag soup. > > I agree with the rest of what you wrote, except for the above.

Re: Problem with

2010-11-04 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/3/10 7:01 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > >> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>> In any case, get rid of the , , , and tags. >>>> They are not needed. Their presence makes your page look

Re: Problem with

2010-11-04 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/4/10 11:59 AM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > >> The advice in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html is against using >> XHTML unless what is wanted cannot possibly be obtained with HTML >> 4.01. > > Yes, I know I've also been rea

Re: Image pasted into a mail

2010-11-06 Thread David E. Ross
Open the image file on your own PC in photoed.exe or some other application that allows even minimal editin. Save the file into a new copy as a JPEG file. Send the JPEG file in the message. Note well: Although the image appears within your message when you compose it and might appear within t

Re: Image pasted into a mail

2010-11-06 Thread David E. Ross
i have to wait some days now, > because the recipient will be at work only at wednesday. I will tell you > the result. The problem is that, no matter how you obtain the image, it traverses the Internet as an attached file separate from the message. Only when you compose the message

Re: More crashes with Shockwave Flash 10.1 r102 in SeaMonkey v2.0.10 web browser?

2010-11-08 Thread David E. Ross
h 10.1.102.64 (10.1 r102), installed 4 November. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> I am again filtering and ignoring all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of the amount of spam from that source. __

Shortcuts Suddenly Appeared

2010-11-14 Thread David E. Ross
d 3.1.5 to 3.1.6. What is going on here? -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source.

Re: Shortcuts Suddenly Appeared

2010-11-15 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/15/10 7:48 AM, Terry R. wrote: > On 11/14/2010 4:39 PM On a whim, David E. Ross pounded out on the keyboard > >> This afternoon, I suddenly found shortcuts to launch SeaMonkey and >> Thunderbird on both my desktop and the Windows XP "quick launch" area of >

Re: Password requirement - pop-up box

2010-11-17 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/17/10 9:13 AM, AJRS wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 10/23/10 8:13 AM, ~BD~ wrote: >>> Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; >>> rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20100930 SeaMonkey/2.0.9 >>> >>> This pop-up is persistent:

Re: Seamonkey page render issue

2010-11-17 Thread David E. Ross
;t see any frames. The navigation area on the left side is part of the main page in the form of a sidebar; I do sidebars on many of my pages without the use of frames. Windows XP SP3 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 -- David E. Ross <h

Re: Me or them?

2010-11-18 Thread David E. Ross
sh started. Is this a pirated video? There was a blurred box in the upper-left corner as if some logo was being hidden. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user a

Re: Password requirement - pop-up box

2010-11-18 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/18/10 6:36 AM, AJRS wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 11/17/10 9:13 AM, AJRS wrote: > > [] >> >> There is a work-around -- >> >> 1. Go to your SeaMonkey profile. >> >> 2. Open file user.js in a text editor. >

Re: Me or them?

2010-11-18 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/18/10 10:46 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 11/18/10 3:12 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>> Can't seem to view this video, wondering if it's me or them... >>> >>> The preview picture comes up fine, but when I click the pl

Road Runner Speed Test

2010-11-18 Thread David E. Ross
ate entirely from prepared scripts.) My question is whether anyone can determine accurately where the problem lies: in Road Runner's Web page or in SeaMonkey. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through Goog

Re: SeaMonkey Faulty Page Rendering

2010-11-19 Thread David E. Ross
= > > JimWG Such a situation -- works with Firefox but not with SeaMonkey -- generally indicates that the Web server is doing invalid sniffing. For an explanation of sniffing and how to defeat it, see my <http://www.rossde.com/internet/sniffing.html>. -- David E. Ross <http:/

Re: Road Runner Speed Test

2010-11-19 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/19/10 6:46 AM, Rob C. wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> My broadband service is via a Road Runner (Time Warner) cable modem. >> When I go to >> <http://www.timewarnercable.com/socal/learn/hso/speedtest.html>, I am >> indeed able to test my download and upload

Re: how to use my own font color on some websites but NOT all?

2010-11-24 Thread David E. Ross
on/67148/ >> There is no "white list" or "black list" capability for color. Either you enable it for all Web pages or disable it for all. The PrefBar capability makes it very easy to switch between enabling and disabling. I have to do this often because some pages tha

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-25 Thread David E. Ross
Adding the oft-mentioned "NOT Firefox" to the SeaMonkey User Agent >> string might help. WLS, have you done this? >> > > It is already in there in the SM 2.1 build configuration. > > Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:2.0b8pre) > Gec

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-25 Thread David E. Ross
of the page is quite technical, I tried to write this in a way that non-technical individuals can understand the issues. (There is a very brief definition of spoofing at <http://www.rossde.com/internet/intr_gloss.html#spoof>.) Download and install PrefBar from <https://addons.mozilla.org

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-25 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/25/10 1:27 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 11/25/10 12:10 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: >>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote : >>> >>>> WLS wrote: >>>> >>>>> Jane_Galt wrote: >>>>>

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-25 Thread David E. Ross
; before, I also told them I refused to use IE. :) > > Goes without sayin. :) > >> Hope you can get some help soon. >> bj > > Is anyone else getting a parsing error at this site?: > http://www.memory4less.com/ This is NOT a SeaMonkey problem. This is a Web site prob

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-25 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/25/10 5:30 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: > "David E. Ross" wrote : > >> On 11/25/10 12:10 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: >>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote : >>> >>>> WLS wrote: >>>> >>>>> Jane_Galt wrote: >>

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-26 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/25/10 8:39 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: > "David E. Ross" wrote : > >> On 11/25/10 5:29 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: >>> chicagofan wrote : >>> >>>> Jane_Galt wrote: >>>>> chicagofan wrote : >>>>>> Webshots stopp

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-26 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/25/10 8:31 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 11/25/10 5:30 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: >> "David E. Ross" wrote : >> >>> On 11/25/10 12:10 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: >>>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote : >>>> >>>>> W

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-26 Thread David E. Ross
that manufacturers have a steady source of water for producing products? What about when the government invests in schools so that we have a well-educated workforce? -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bure

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-26 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/26/10 1:46 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: > "David E. Ross" wrote : > >> So when the government invests in new roads or repairing old bridges to >> facilitate the transportation of goods and the commute of workers, that >> money is wasted? > > Being it was

Re: Video feeds start-stop-start

2010-11-27 Thread David E. Ross
r than my viewer displays it. I view what has been delivered. Then, there is a pause while more is delivered. This was especially bad when I had dial-up. With broadband (a cable modem), I still sometimes see this but only from slow servers. If your viewer has such an option, try setting it

Re: Video feeds start-stop-start

2010-11-27 Thread David E. Ross
the greater the Internet distance -- the longer the delay (greater lag) and often the slower the feed. Some servers block Ping because a flood of pings can overwhelm a server and cause a denial-of-service attack. Since TraceRoute depends on ping-like activity, those serv

Re: Spoofing as Firefox

2010-11-28 Thread David E. Ross
rnet/sniffing.html>. Pay special attention to the section "Defeating Browser Sniffing". -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 u

Re: Spoofing as Firefox

2010-11-28 Thread David E. Ross
On 11/28/10 2:59 PM, Ray_Net wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 11/28/10 5:11 AM, JohnW-Mpls wrote: >>> >>> Another website ignores Seamonkey so the old question again; what can >>> I do so websites think my Seamonkey is Firefox? (or is: IE, Opera, >>&

Re: Spoofing as Firefox

2010-12-01 Thread David E. Ross
blem site - SM still cannot see what IE, FF, etc see. Not > serious, that site is not that important. What site? What is its URI? By the way, you should have only ONE blank after the dashes in the line before your signature. The convention in RFC 3676 (Section 4.3) is "dash-dash-space&qu

Re: Spoofing as Firefox

2010-12-01 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/1/10 9:45 AM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > >> By the way, you should have only ONE blank after the dashes in the >> line before your signature. The convention in RFC 3676 (Section 4.3) >> is "dash-dash-space" (-- ). > > Lo

Re: Cookie Problem?

2010-12-01 Thread David E. Ross
t before getting this? Note that some sites have software provided by third parties. For example, when I pay bills throught my credit union, the software they use on their server requires cookies for the domain of their outside software developer. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com

Re: Can't get forecast.weather.com

2010-12-03 Thread David E. Ross
A name-server lookup indicates there is no such domain as forecast.weather.com. I have no problem viewing forecast.weather.gov. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user

DNS Server

2010-12-08 Thread David E. Ross
When I select a link to a Web site in SeaMonkey, is there some way to determine the domain name or IP address of what DNS server was used? -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google&#x

Re: DNS Server

2010-12-08 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/8/10 2:51 PM, Glen wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> When I select a link to a Web site in SeaMonkey, is there some way to >> determine the domain name or IP address of what DNS server was used? >> > david, check out flagfox, using xsidebar's modification. &g

Re: DNS Server

2010-12-08 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/8/10 3:58 PM, Glen wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 12/8/10 2:51 PM, Glen wrote: >>> David E. Ross wrote: >>>> When I select a link to a Web site in SeaMonkey, is there some way to >>>> determine the domain name or IP address of what DNS server w

Re: DNS Server

2010-12-09 Thread David E. Ross
On 12/8/10 2:25 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > When I select a link to a Web site in SeaMonkey, is there some way to > determine the domain name or IP address of what DNS server was used? > I connected my PC directly to the RoadRunner cable modem, bypassing our LAN router. Then &quo

Re: Image blocking in SM 2.0.10

2010-12-10 Thread David E. Ross
n SM Add-On or is it more likely to be > a preference setting that I don't know about? > > Any help and/or suggestions will be gratefully received. Mapquest requires you to set your preference to allow images from all domains, not only from Mapquest. -- David E. Ross <http://

Re: image properties reset to default

2010-12-12 Thread David E. Ross
ined; in the Dimensions tab, changes made > in "Custom Size" are lost and reset to "Actual Size". > > Is there some place to hardcode these changes? Is it a bug? > > Thanks - If your wife is composing Web pages, alternate text for an image is required by the HTML sp

Re: Blank newsgroup post on GigaNews?

2010-12-14 Thread David E. Ross
t seems like SM2 is doing something weird. > > Thank you in advance. :) Is this also a Thunderbird problem? Does this happen with other NSPs? If so, a bug report should be submitted. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup mes

Re: PLEASE ID the operating system in Subject line ?

2010-12-16 Thread David E. Ross
d even though the > problem MIGHT also exist in other OS versions of SM, why make all users > HAVE to read deeply every message just to find out ? > > Hopefully, just an outburst of potential common sense... > > Joe Yet I had to read each of your three messages to see

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