Re: Part of window is overlayed.

2009-03-21 Thread JeffM
> stan wrote: > > The window looks like this: > > http://www.fototime.com/96EAA4802CC856E/standard. > > Walter wrote: > I get this kind of thing quite often. >Here's hoping the next version of SM will correct this. > There is nothing to "correct" As has been said numerous times in this thread. THE

Re: How Big Can a Mail Attachment Be?

2009-03-21 Thread JeffM
>HeavyDuty wrote: >>Are there ftp sites one can upload to? >>How does one go about sending a file to an FTP site? >> Lemuel Johnson wrote: >Here's just one of many: >http://www.sendspace.com/ Can you show evidence that DOWNLOADS FROM that site are via FTP? All I find is that UPLOADS TO the site

Re: HTML and text

2009-03-22 Thread JeffM
>David E. Ross wrote: >>I also looked at the quality of the HTML in HTML-formatted messages. >>The mean number of errors reported by >>was 9.1 errors per KB of file size. >> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >but for the average person sending an email, this means not

Re: How Big Can a Mail Attachment Be?

2009-03-22 Thread JeffM
>>HeavyDuty wrote: >> >>>Are there ftp sites one can upload to? How does one go about sending a >>>file to an FTP site? >> >Lemuel Johnson wrote: >>Here's just one of many: >>http://www.sendspace.com/ >> Ray_Net wrote: >This is an "upload file(s)" website ... nothing to do with ftp. > The 2 concept

Re: Part of window is overlayed.

2009-03-24 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>3) AFTER he had a standards-compliant page, >>if he wanted it to look right in IE, >>he would have **added** the needed tweaks >>for those using the LEAST-compliant browser. > Daniel wrote: >Sorry, Jeff, are you suggesting that >MSIE canno

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-24 Thread JeffM
Lester Caine wrote: >[...]It's only the one machine that is NOT seeing these sites. >Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com >either so I can't run windows update :( Raise your right hand and repeat this: I know that these sites use the LEAST-SECURE mechanism on the planet yet I am wil

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-24 Thread JeffM
Lester Caine wrote: >[...]when I select www.pctools.com it seems to be saying >the domain does not exist, >jet the same search and link works fine on the machine next door. > >[...]trying to update the pctools anti virus fails, and >following the link in seamonkey also fails. A quick peek at that

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-25 Thread JeffM
>>Lester Caine wrote: >>>[...]trying to update the pctools anti virus fails, and >>>following the link in seamonkey also fails. >>> Lester Caine wrote: >[...]The reason for going to the site >was because the on-line anti-virus update was failing. >THAT was when I found that seamonkey was having tro

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-27 Thread JeffM
Lester Caine wrote: >Not having any pigging windows disks for the machine, >I ended up hitting it with 'HP Recovery', >and to my surprise it worked reasonably well. >Only taken 2 days to put back all the windows updates >and restore the programs it missed > - so now can I charge the customer for tw

Re: I applaud the CW on their forthrightness

2009-03-27 Thread JeffM
jon q public wrote: >http://www.cwtv.com/cw-video/supernatural/full/?play=448-5399 > >not that it matters SM 1.1.15 under linux etc >>We're sorry, but only the following operating systems are supported at >>this time: >>Microsoft Windows XP/Vista >>(i386) Apple Macintosh OS X or later >>(PPC) Apple

Re: Does SeaMonkey support PGP?

2009-03-27 Thread JeffM
saint satin stain wrote: >I formerly used Firefox and Thunder in Windows XP Pro as my >browser/email client. Thunderbird is supported by PGP Desktop. >I recently decided to try SeaMonkey 1.1.15 . >I could experiment and find out, but I believe that >wisdom is learning from the experiences of other

Re: Is this site working for you?

2010-08-18 Thread JeffM
S. Beaulieu wrote: >Update: I got a phone call from the tech guy. >It seems that a whole bunch of stuff is going wrong >since something changed in IE (?) >and that the points I pushed forward about sniffing >and Gecko and so on turned out really useful for them. > Heh. So, they were coding not onl

Re: Sea Monkey desktop java script problem

2010-08-19 Thread JeffM
Julia Bolton Holloway wrote: >I use Sea Monkey in preference to all other browsers, >because its composer is so excellent. I create my web pages with it; >http://www.florin.ms, http://www.umilta.net, http://www.ringofgold.eu, >and write about this at http://www.umilta.net/weaveweb.html > You missed

Re: Another SM problem site

2010-08-19 Thread JeffM
David E. Ross wrote: >The page validates with 156 errors > "Validates" does not apply. >if I force the W3C validator to use iso-8859-1 character encoding. > More correctly, the validator spits it back--even after you compensated for the massive incompetence of the developer. "Fails" is the correc

Re: FREAKIN' Adobe!!!

2010-08-22 Thread JeffM
David E. Ross wrote: >Yes, Flash MIGHT set its own cookies. However, you can go to > >and set Flash not to set cookies. > There's a good idea. Use the tool provided by the scummy corporation that caused the

Re: Considing the Aged and Vision Impaired

2010-08-26 Thread JeffM
Ed Mullen wrote: >I just turned 60. I'll die before this issue is resolved. > >The real problem with Open Source "products" >is that they are not products in the usual sense. >No one pays for them[...] >there is no incentive to satisfy the customers. > Have a pet peeve? How about putting a bounty

Re: add-ons and [helper applications]

2010-08-27 Thread JeffM
Rick Merrill wrote: >Browser has "helper applications", >Tools has "add-ons" and "extensions" and "plugins" > A helper application deals with non-HTML content: video[1], Flash, PDF, zip files, etc. . . [1] The HTML5 tag should shorten this list. ___ supp

Re: Java and Seamonkey?

2010-09-03 Thread JeffM
doc@ kd4e.com wrote: >all of the content there is either archived >or hours-slow in being updated, >so it was a dead-end for current video of the NC coastline >during the storm. > NOAA's National Weather Service has a water vapor (storms) map that I use: http://aviationweather.gov/adds/satellite/di

Re: Anyone using Google see an animated icon today?

2010-09-07 Thread JeffM
chicagofan wrote: >I've been told that Google has an animation today, that I can't see. > Different locales do get different stuff, but it appears someone steered you wrong this week. in the future, if you are regionally challenged or miss the date, get your fill of previous Google Doodles here: ht

Re: Anyone using Google see an animated icon today?

2010-09-08 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>http://www.google.com/logos/ >> chicagofan wrote: >Thanks so much! > No sweat. >>it appears someone steered you wrong this week >> >the one they had yesterday was fun too. :( >It's not up [at the link] yet. > Hmmm. When I made t

Re: Anyone using Google see an animated icon today?

2010-09-08 Thread JeffM
chicagofan wrote: >I've been told that Google has an animation today, that I can't see. > I found coverage of this. It appears to be a new "feature" of Google. It seems there is regionalism factor in the rollout. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/09/08/1212244&threshold=4&mode=nested&lowbandwid

DO NOT MAKE *TEST* POSTS IN THIS GROUP

2010-09-10 Thread JeffM
FMurtz wrote: >gjvjhv Subject line changed from "test". DO NOT made test posts to any group which does not have *test* in its name. In this hierarchy, the test group is mozilla.test. If you want a second opinion on whether your post went through, go to http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.supp

Re: Google and Seamonkey

2010-09-10 Thread JeffM
Ray_Net wrote: >The search is done immediately and modified at each character typed. > This has been a topic here multiple time this week: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/browse_frm/thread/00fababfd6305fb1 http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/browse_frm/

Re: Google and Seamonkey

2010-09-10 Thread JeffM
Ray_Net wrote: >The search is done immediately and modified at each character typed. > This has been a topic here multiple times this week: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/browse_frm/thread/00fababfd6305fb1 http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/browse_frm

Re: DO NOT MAKE *TEST* POSTS IN THIS GROUP

2010-09-10 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>In this hierarchy, the test group is mozilla.test. >> FMurtz wrote: >if there was a problem with this specific group, >would exactly the same problem occur with mozilla.test? > If the *server* is offline, that will be revealed. If you can get to the

Re: DO NOT MAKE *TEST* POSTS IN THIS GROUP

2010-09-12 Thread JeffM
Daniel wrote: >Jeff, I think what Jay is trying to say is that >if people are having problems, >they should first fire off a test message to the test group. > I'm saying that THEY SHOULD NOT "FIRE OFF" ANYTHING. The idea that you have to start spewing MORE crap is WRONG. **First*, check a Web-base

Re: DO NOT MAKE *TEST* POSTS IN THIS GROUP

2010-09-12 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>**First*, check a Web-based archive of the group >>and simply LOOK to see if your ORIGINAL post went thru. >>Google Groups has near-zero latency. >> Paul wrote: >Google groups are banned from my company > *Your* company? ...or the company y

Re: DO NOT MAKE *TEST* POSTS IN THIS GROUP

2010-09-12 Thread JeffM
Anne wrote: >Google is Internet. Newsgroups are Usenet. >Using one for writing on the other looks fool. > Another fool who isn't following the content of the thread. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozi

Re: Seamonkey 1.19

2010-09-13 Thread JeffM
>baitman wrote: >>I am using version 1.19 with window 98se >> Robert Kaiser wrote: >We don't release current software for vastly outdated systems. >If you want to stay with the outdated vulnerability-prone Win98SE, >you need to stick with the outdated vulnerability-prone >1.x versions of SeaMonkey

Re: Seamonkey 1.19

2010-09-13 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>If you see Puppy mentioned, forget that >>as it is a poor choice with a lack of security similar to Win9x. >> Robert Kaiser wrote: >OTOH, it's a distro that comes with SeaMonkey >as the default browser and mail application, > 8-) Yup, *that

Re: Seamonkey 1.19

2010-09-13 Thread JeffM
Robert Kaiser wrote: >I for myself am a big fan of openSUSE, which is very friendly to us > You have to admire their taste in online software 8-) >(though not as default browser...) > Well, take the blessings as they come. >[...]not so sure[...]how well it works for usually older hardware >that

Re: Seamonkey 1.19

2010-09-13 Thread JeffM
JeffM wrote: >>If a newbie can do damage >>without any prompt that what he is doing is dangerous, >>he gets a fowl impression of "Linux" >>--because Puppy is a poor implementation of Linux. >> >>Again, with Puppy, it's too easy for a n00b to get a

Re: Seamonkey 1.19

2010-09-14 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>A distro built around KDE or GNOME >>is likely a non-starter for gear of that vintage. >> Daniel wrote: >Wrong!! My desktop is a dual boot Win98 (upgraded to SE, I think) >and Mandriva Linux 2007.1. >Part of the Mandrive install is KDE desktop. >

Re: Seamonkey 1.19

2010-09-15 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>Now for the $64,000 question: >>How much RAM is in that box? >> Daniel wrote: >375MByte > 384MB would be the number commonly reported for that. So, your box is atypical for someone who is *still* using Win9x. Mostly such folks will never alter the origi

Re: Pop Up Window Won't Scroll

2010-09-17 Thread JeffM
>doc@ kd4e.com wrote: >>I am using 2.0.8 in Limux. >> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >Limux? :-) > Well, he might not be using it, but it's a real thing. It's a spin of Debian produced by the City of Munich with an eye on mass migration off of Windoze and other closed-source payware. http://en.wi

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

2010-09-20 Thread JeffM
Arnie Goetchius wrote: >With Seamonkey (1.16 or 2.08), Firefox or Google Chrome, >I get an a "Start Up Error" when trying to access the above site. > For kicks, I tried feeding the URL into the validator. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https://www.uhcretiree.com/ I got a 500 error. (Server doe

Re: e-mailing WebPages--SeaMonkey and IE8

2010-09-21 Thread JeffM
Popichak, Robert wrote: >I would prefer to use MS Outlook > Maybe you should take your questions about Internet Exploder and Outbreaks In Excess to groups that specialize in those fourth-rate softwares. >Is there a setting I can change to default IE8 to Outlook? > Everyone *assumes* that you know

Re: Print to File in E-Mail - Problems

2010-09-25 Thread JeffM
DoctorBill wrote: >[...]an E-Mail[...]I wanted to print it to a file >so that I could print it out with a word processor. >Tried to "Print to File" when I clicked the Print Button. > Your expectations are so far off, it's humorous. The file format will be "your printer's language" (gibberish). Not

Re: Can't Get Hotmail

2010-09-30 Thread JeffM
David E. Ross wrote: >My wife uses SeaMonkey 1.1.19. >Her old PC does not have the capacity for Windows XP, >so she still uses Windows 98. >However, her PC is starting to get cranky; > Can you narrow it down to the hardware or the software? (Tried to boot to a Linux CD?) >so I think I might get he

Re: Can't Get Hotmail

2010-10-01 Thread JeffM
Ray_Net wrote: >Who is paying you to stress people using linux ? > It's called "sharing". As the user of a Free Software online suite, you should be familiar with the concept. People who mention a 12-year-old M$ OS (which is always running as root) often have experienced being pwned by a drive-by

Re: Clearing private data -- do it now!

2010-10-01 Thread JeffM
Stephan Mahieu wrote: >cc-numbers imho are just the tip of the iceberg. >What about the information you type in >when doing online private banking? > The suckage of financial institutions (especially in the USA) is just phenomenal. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/08/1226243&mode=nocomme

Re: Anyone else having problems with zap2it?

2010-10-08 Thread JeffM
DSF wrote: >There are many other web sites where I save pages this way. > I'll bet when you check those other pages for crappiness they look more like this http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.webstandards.org/2008/10/02/dowehaveawinner/ than like this http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http

Re: Unresponsive Script error stops SeaMonkey - Fix ?

2010-10-08 Thread JeffM
DoctorBill wrote: >If I use Google Images,[]very often Seamonkey 1.1 binds up >and then an error message pops up >about some "Unresponsive Script" > I note that you didn't mention what kind of bandwidth you have. If scripts bog down your system, don't run those. http://noscript.net/ __

Re: Problems with links on Yahoo Finance

2010-10-09 Thread JeffM
robert.ga...@att.net wrote: >links on Yahoo Finance that used to work in Seamonkey >but won't display with 2.0.8. > The page is crap. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://finance.yahoo.com When the page is crap, the browser has to GUESS. The old browser guessed correctly; the newer one doesn't.

Re: Printing first page mostly blank

2010-10-14 Thread JeffM
stango wrote: >different pages are developed using different software > Don't blame the software. Ultimately it's the human's responsibility to assure that the work he produces isn't crap. >and for different browsers, > Mostly, this refers to pages built by fools and incompetents who use Micros~1

Re: A quick question

2010-10-16 Thread JeffM
Zeb Carter wrote: >[...]I am recreating my USENET lists[...] > If you're going to be posting to USENET, avoid using inane Subject lines like "A quick question". ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.o

Re: A quick question

2010-10-16 Thread JeffM
Mark Hansen wrote: >What you must not realize is that >people search the subject lines from past posts >looking for potential solutions. >By using a nonsense subject line, >you basically make this really hard. > aka "selfish". ___ support-seamonkey mailin

Re: FTP problem - don't know what.

2010-10-20 Thread JeffM
DoctorBill wrote: >The tech rep (ha!) didn't explain what software password to use. > An apt comic from a few days back: http://xkcd.com/806/ The stuffed penguin was a powerful clue he had the right tech. http://google.com/images?q=Tux+Larry-Ewing ___ sup

Re: checky

2010-10-22 Thread JeffM
Miroslav Kolar wrote: >How can checky be made working with Seamonkey? > How about requesting that from the author. http://checky.sourceforge.net/help.html ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/lis

Re: Google docs broken with latest upgrade

2010-10-26 Thread JeffM
Doug Fisher wrote: >With the latest upgrade to 2.09, >Google docs is now showing in "basic HTML" mode >and is uneditable. >SeaMonkey is being detected as a noncompliant browser. > Bitch to Google loud and long about their incompetence doing browser sniffing. http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.s

Re: Aquestion about SM 1.1 and the Internet

2010-10-26 Thread JeffM
DoctorBill wrote: >I am finding more and more often, >that open tabs which are loading just keep on 'loading' forever. >[...] the circling arrow and progress bar never stop working. >[. . .] >I do not understand all the nuances of how the internet works, > I note that you haven't mentioned how fast

Re: Any idea what might prevent this from playing?

2010-10-26 Thread JeffM
doc@ kd4e.com wrote: >I have tried this on two laptops, one SM 2.0.8 >the other 2.0.9 and it won't play - shows the promo page >but no streaming video when clicked. >http://www.syfy.com/rewind/riese/1255985/ > It would be good if folks would mention having tried the usual suspects: Tried user agent

Re: Google docs broken with latest upgrade

2010-10-27 Thread JeffM
Doug Fisher wrote: >I wish SM could figure get on more compliant lists > - or figure out a way to work around this. > What I wish is that people would stop blaming a browser that works PERFECTLY on properly-build sites when that browser encounters a site built by an incompetent bozo who should be d

Re: Any idea what might prevent this from playing?

2010-10-27 Thread JeffM
Danny Kile wrote: >I was not able to play the video when spoofing FF or IE, >I was however able to play it if I ran IE Tabs. > So, to review: A site that not only requires an Internet Exploder identity reported, it is actually built to require that broken rendering engine. Another moron Web develop

Re: Google docs broken with latest upgrade

2010-10-27 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>Contact the jackass who can't built a proper Web page. >>Direct your bile at the moron who obviously >>doesn't do proper testing on the crap pages he produces. > Ed Mullen wrote: >Err, contact, perhaps, a commenter who can get his verb tenses ri

Re: Password Manager Not Working for Monster.com

2010-10-28 Thread JeffM
nr wrote: >[...]Password Manager[...] >the user name and password won't populate the fields >when I go to [Monster.com] > Similar topics have been discussed here before: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey/search?group=mozilla.support.seamonkey&q=Password-Manager+some-sites+-3-

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

2010-10-31 Thread JeffM
Acharya Swami Rudra Kali Das wrote: >I don't usually post, but > What would be good is if *before* posting you looked at the Subject lines of what was posted the last few days. news://news.mozilla.org:119/ttadnttmlpcgzfvrnz2dnuvz_qudn...@mozilla.org http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.se

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

2010-10-31 Thread JeffM
David E. Ross wrote: >Apparently, Google is "[sniffing]" for what browser you are using. >Further, Google is "sniffing" INCORRECTLY. > It appears they turned things over to the children who promptly screwed things up 6 ways to Sunday. http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/10/29/storm-clouds/ ___

Re: Brevity Comic Strip on SeaMonkeys

2010-11-07 Thread JeffM
Ant wrote: >http://comics.com/brevity/2010-11-07/ >Heh. > 8-) Shades of my youth and the back pages of comic books. Without the bloated page, that's: http://c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/dyn/str_strip/342251.full.gif ___ support-seamonkey ma

Re: http://veetle.com?

2010-11-07 Thread JeffM
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >you didn't "Fall Back" > It wasn't his choice. It's a *server* issue. His *provider* hasn't applied the DST patches which have been available for years. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.or

Re: Seamonkey page render issue

2010-11-17 Thread JeffM
Eric wrote: >I put it through the validator "http://validator.w3.org/";, > What else have you tried? http://google.com/search?q=cache:HdmyepHTpmoJ:kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_SeaMonkey+Many-problems-are-caused-by-incompatible-themes.extensions.or-programming-errors-in-plugins+*-*-new-*

Re: SeaMonkey Faulty Page Rendering

2010-11-19 Thread JeffM
David E. Ross wrote: >Such a situation -- works with Firefox but not with SeaMonkey -- >generally indicates that the Web server is doing invalid sniffing. > ...and the decision tree for any browser *other* than the **one** horribly broken browser doesn't need to be as complex as they are making it.

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

2010-11-25 Thread JeffM
>Margo Guda wrote: >>prefbar [will] just turn off color >> When you top-post, it really screws up the flow of the thread --especially when you are responding to MULTIPLE posts. David E. Ross wrote: >There is no "white list" or "black list" capability for color. >Either you enable it for all Web pa

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-25 Thread JeffM
>Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote : >>looks for "Internet Explorer", >>"Firefox", "Safari", "Chrome", "Netscape" (!), "Opera", but not >>"SeaMonkey". (Yet another example of author bungle.) >> :David E. Ross wrote: :another example of why sniffing is generally bad. : Jane_Galt wrote: >kept me from us

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-25 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote : >>Finding a service that isn't run by bozos would be a good plan. >> Jane_Galt wrote: >Webshots is it, pretty much, for HD color photo downloading. > That pretty much sucks. Some competition in that segment would be good. I wonder why there isn't a

Re: Is Seamonkey defunct?

2010-11-25 Thread JeffM
>Jane_Galt wrote: >>Is anyone else getting a parsing error at this site?: >>http://www.memory4less.com/ >> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >New problem, eh? I see the same error in several browsers. > The only thing surprising here is that someone is surprised: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=htt

Re: seamonkey printer question

2010-12-14 Thread JeffM
Fred James wrote: >[...]PRINTER[...] > Starting a new thread with each new post seems very stupid and selfish to me. Try keeping it all in one thread from now on. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla

Re: OT: Google groups - My Groups Missing

2011-02-09 Thread JeffM
nr wrote: >Google groups > http://google.com/search?q=%22.Google.Groups%22+cookies+-this-group+-food ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey

Re: OT: Google groups - My Groups Missing

2011-02-10 Thread JeffM
nr wrote: >JeffM wrote: >>http://google.com/search?q=%22.Google.Groups%22+cookies+-this-group+-... >> >Thanks for the link, but it didn't show me anything usable. > The Google cookie(s) on your box allows Google to access the data they have aggregated about you. If that c

Re: Does Seamonkey's HTML editor make "conformity" modifications to HTML it saves?

2011-02-14 Thread JeffM
Leroy Tennison wrote: >[...]in the ASP code[...] > What characteristic does that Microsoft technology possess that you feel that you need? To get an iteration of M$ tech going, it seems obvious that you would use a M$ tool. M$ tools, of course, produce the least compliant, most bloated code. _

Re: PDF file limitation

2011-02-18 Thread JeffM
David E. Ross wrote: >As reported yesterday by the original poster in this thread, >the problem was a setting in Adobe Reader, not in SeaMonkey. > What hasn't been stated explicitly, however, is, apparently, that app handles Internet Exploder in a different way than it does other browsers. Good ol

Re: Cannot chat with EpikNet servers and SeaMonkey

2011-02-21 Thread JeffM
Ed Mullen wrote: >Best practice: Use Add/Remove Programs to uninstall first >then install new version. > With the recent spate of Java-using exploits (to which even Linux users are susceptible), some are advising the Remove part WITHOUT the Install part. http://mrpogson.com/2011/02/18/fate-of-java

Re: remote content

2011-02-21 Thread JeffM
>Smiles wrote: >>how do I get rid of the load remote content pop up >> Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Message Display: >You should be aware that by doing this >you will be allowing "web beacons" > Yet another example that HTML email is a stupid notion. More on th

Re: Message: Your browser is not supported at this time.

2011-02-25 Thread JeffM
hapihakr wrote: >Use the user agent string option to masquerade as Firefox. > ...or just don't visit sites built by chimps. Thanks for posting to an 11-month old thread. In addition: The proper line length length for text in Usenet posts is also much shorter than your post would indicate. http://

Re: MafiaaFire extension.

2011-05-12 Thread JeffM
>>Ant wrote: >>>http://mafiaafire.com/download.php >>>Is there one that is compatible with Mozilla's SeaMonkey v2.x? Ant wrote: >I will just wait for an official SM2 support if it ever comes out. >I will contact the developers too for a SM2 support too! > The extension in question is based on an i

Re: Mozilla & Chrome More Vulnerable than MS-IE?

2011-05-17 Thread JeffM
d...@kd4e.com wrote: >:[...]Chrome, Firefox, and Safari >:have vulnerabilities numbering in the hundreds >:-- far more than Internet Explorer in the same time periods. > When M$ starts publishing EVERY bug report it receives, THEN these trolls can start making those claims with some veracity. Howev

Re: Region Blocking?

2011-05-28 Thread JeffM
>doc@ kd4e.com wrote: >>I have been surprised from time to time when I am on >>a site in Europe or elsewhere and get an error saying >>that some resource is not available in my "region". >> http://google.com/search?tbs=dfn:1&q=proxy-server MCBastos wrote: >[...]the U.S. used to have a >"28 years f

Re: Browser no longer supported

2011-05-29 Thread JeffM
Jane_Galt wrote: >I keep getting messages from Google search, Adwords and other places >that my browser ( SM ) is no longer supported. > When you encounter idiots who don't know how to build a website properly, you have options: 1) Avoid the idiots permanently 2) Complain to the idiots that they sh

Re: Browser no longer supported

2011-05-29 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote : >>[...]idiots who don't know how to build a website properly[...] >> Jan_Galt wrote: >You consider Google, one of the biggest sites in the world, to be idiots? > Yup. This topic has been covered in this group innumerable times. YOU DON'T NEED TO SNI

Re: Browser no longer supported

2011-05-29 Thread JeffM
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >And of course a compliant site would get fewer calls, would it not? > In a perfect world: Yes. In a world where M$ is in the browser market: Who knows? You're forgetting that not only is Internet Exploder not W3C- compliant, the various versions aren't even compatible wit

Re: Browser no longer supported

2011-05-30 Thread JeffM
sean bean wrote: >Google is likely telling you your browser is not supported because >Google wants to set all sorts of cookies and location awareness data >in your browser, > Nope. >which SeaMonkey generally doesn't allow by default > Nope. While I laud your suspicion of megacorporations, your ac

Re: Browser no longer supported

2011-05-30 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>Google is sniffing for browsers >>and blackballing those it deems unworthy of accessing its pages. >>Again, sniffing is a stupid practice; >>using it *incorrectly* is monumentally stupid. >> >>It is obvious that the Google employees who

Re: Browser no longer supported

2011-05-30 Thread JeffM
MCBastos wrote: >Interviewed by CNN on 30/05/2011 06:49, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: > That's cute. 8-) >>if enough sites were compliant, M$ would have to shape up. >> >Actually, I understand that IE9 is reasonably compliant > The phrase you seek is *inching upward* (after YEARS of hobbling

Re: Browser no longer supported

2011-05-30 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>The truth is much simpler: >> 1) Google has embraced Web 2.0. >> 2) Google employees don't know the *basics* of what they are doing. >> sean bean wrote: >google's corporate motto is "don't be evil" >but this is now opposi

Re: PGA Tour on Facebook with SM2.1

2011-06-11 Thread JeffM
William Morrison wrote: >I can't play Golf on Facebook > Here's a crazy idea: When you have a problem with a page, include a clickable link to that page in your post. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.moz

Re: PGA Tour on Facebook with SM2.1

2011-06-11 Thread JeffM
William Morrison wrote: >that would require me giving out my username and password >to be of any use to anyone >and then everyone would have access to my Facebook Account. > Ah. Facebook is a really stupid idea IMO. >use SM 2.1 create a Facebook account of your own then > You just lost me. A site

Re: PDF problems and jokulsarlon - open with?

2011-06-19 Thread JeffM
Francesco Presel wrote: >[...]where does it get the information from, >about what program it should use (I'm using linux)? > The builder of the site specifies the MIME type. http://google.com/search?tbs=dfn:1&q=MIME-type A lot of people who build sites are idiots and do it wrong. (Kinda like the id

Re: Advertise Firefox compatibility:

2011-06-21 Thread JeffM
sean nathan bean wrote: >it displays no problem, >but won't let me install the firefox compatible addon... > The version numbers of SeaMonkey are at least one integer behind Firefox. If an extension checks for a version number upon installation, first, you better assure that the version numbers lin

Re: Advertise Firefox compatibility [and incompatible extension]

2011-06-22 Thread JeffM
MCBastos wrote: >Advertising Firefox compatibility >only helps to get dumb browser-sniffing webpages to load correctly. > I call those "Web pages constructed by idiots" but you're a more kind and gentle soul than I am. >Extension compatibility is an entirely different subject. > I'm a one-step-at-

Re: What's a Power PC Mac user to do?

2011-06-22 Thread JeffM
Bob Fleischer wrote: >[...]Mac OS 10.4. > Apple: The new Borg. >I understand that she cannot upgrade to SeaMonkey 2.1, >and that there will be no further security fixes to SeaMonkey 2.0. > >Besides buying a new computer, what alternatives might there be? > http://distrowatch.com/search.php?archite

Re: Why do all my addons have to break when ever I update?

2011-07-07 Thread JeffM
MCBastos wrote: >Add-ons (extensions) "hook" into and modify the user interface >of the program -- sometimes inserting a new module >in the structure, sometimes replacing the standard module >with their own customized module, whatever. > ...then there is Google included an actual API for extensions

Re: Really HATE the accelerated release cycle

2011-07-08 Thread JeffM
Cruz, Jaime wrote: >The add-on authors seem to be having difficulties >keeping up with the upgrade cycle, > Asa Dotzler (who is not authorized to speak for Mozilla) made a comment that caused even more corps to dump Firefox. (Having to test for breakage before deploying then test AGAIN soon afterwa

Re: Really HATE the accelerated release cycle

2011-07-09 Thread JeffM
>JeffM wrote: >>Slashdot commenters mentioned several times >>http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/1442205/Firefox-Is-For-Regular-Users-Not-Businesses >>that Gecko needs a Long-Term Support version >>(a concept that Ubuntu has used successfully since June 2006, &

Re: Interesting... Neither FF or SM is allowed on this Amtrak page

2011-07-09 Thread JeffM
NoOp wrote: >"Sorry, your browser/program is not supported by Web Dynpro! " > I'm completely shocked. Their developers seem so talented. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://amtrak.com/ 374 Errors, 463 warning(s) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list sup

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