On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:23:01 -0400, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: > Graham P Davis wrote: >> I thought I'd have another try with Seamonkey 2.1 but ran into a couple >> of problems. >> >> (1) I thought I saw SM say it was importing FF5 bookmarks but must have >> been mistaken. I know other browsers can't manage that trick but would >> have thought another Mozilla product would have been up to the task. >> Silly me! Don't worry, I know the way to get round this one - export >> bookmarks from FF as HTML and then import them into SM - but it's a >> pity the left hand doesn't know what the right one is up to. >> >> (2) Most mail folders and account info was imported more-or-less OK but >> "Blogs& News Feeds" is a disaster area - nothing imported there. >> (a) I tried exporting from TB5 as OPML file - or files, it only seems >> to >> try one file at a time - but this was a total failure. I don't know >> where the fault lies but suspect TB5 as the file was empty apart from >> the date. >> Having said that, the "Manage subscriptions" import option may be as >> useless as the "add" button (see (c)). >> (b) I then tried copying the TB5 files (mail/feeds folder and >> feeds.msf) >> into the SM folder but that made no difference. >> (c) Next, I tried adding the feeds from scratch using "Manage >> subscriptions" but it couldn't manage to do anything. Clicked on "add" >> and then pasted in the HTML for the feed, then "OK", but nothing >> happened. Did the identical thing with TB5 using the same link and it >> worked fine. >> >> Can someone help? >> > Well, you know, 2.1 is now history, since the release of 2.2. 2.2 is > supposedly (mostly) the maintenance release for 2.1. They hope to have > the automatic updater module for 2.0 (& 2.1 ?) > to 2.2 ready in about 2 weeks, And then 2.3 is due to be ready about a > month after that. They are already concentrating on the development of > 2.5 So really what do you want, hope for? > I'm sure? it will all be fixed in the next release. :) :/ > > Dth?
Oh crikey! I was thinking of getting away from the stupidity of the FF and TB galloping releases but that seems to be a false hope. As you can see from my sig, I've been with these products for quite a while but if this lunacy continues, I'm not sure how much longer I can stay. -- Graham Davis, UK User of Mozillarish stuff since Netscape 1.2N. Running KDE 4.6.5 on openSUSE 11.4. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
