On 05/23/2010 02:23 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: > Rob Lindauer wrote: >> The Seamonkey install instructions I've been using (successfully) for a >> year or two have me expand the Seamonkey tar/bz2 file into a >> subdirectory under home, and manually add an entry in my Gnome/Kde menu, >> as opposed to installing via Synaptic/Apt. The rationale as I recall is >> that I as nonprivileged user can thereafter add extensions, and no have >> to run as root when doing so. > > With SeaMonkey versions before 2.0 there were extensions that needed to > be installed into the application directory so you needed access to that > directory, which usually meant you needed to be root. Starting with > version 2.0 SeaMonkey uses the same add-on back-end as recent versions > of Firefox which means that you can install all kinds of extensions into > your user profile which does not require special privileges.
??? I've been running SM 1.x from a home folder for a very long time & still have the latest 1.1.19 installed & working from a home folder. Can you please advise which extensions required root access? Note: not a confrontational question, just curious as this is the first I've heard of this. ... _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
