My bloviated meandering follows what Larry S. graced us with on
4/28/2012 8:19 AM:
Sailfish wrote:
My bloviated meandering follows what Larry S. graced us with on
4/27/2012 8:54 PM:
Sailfish wrote:
My bloviated meandering follows what Larry S. graced us with on
4/27/2012 7:36 PM:
Hartmut Figge wrote:
Larry S.:
How do I get back to my old, preferred theme (which I think was
called
Seamonkey Modern or some such)?
I am using Modern at the moment with SM 2.12a1. Of course, there are
some who mock at that choice and prefer Classic. *g*
Tools->Add-ons Manager->Appearance
There i have the choice between Classic and Modern and so it
should be
for you.
Hartmut
Sad but true, I don't have that choice. When I go to Add-ons
Manager>Appearance, all I get is "You don't have any add-ons of this
type installed". When I go to addons.mozilla.org, I don't see either
the Classic or the Modern themes (I seem to remember having those same
two choices, until the 2.9 installation failed and I reverted to 2.8).
Now, no such choce, and a different theme that I don't like. Bummer!
Both Classic and Modern are part of the install files and not in one's
profile as with user installed add-ons. If you are not seeing both of
those in the "Tools>Add-ons Manager" Appearance section then it means
that either your installation somehow became corrupted or your
profile has.
First try selection "Help>Restart with Add-ons Disabled" to see if both
appear in your "Tools>Add-ons Manager" Appearance section. If they do,
then the culprit is most like something off in your profile. If they
don't, try uninstalling and re-installing SeaMonkey and try again.
Thank you. That explains why I can't add them. Tried your Restart
advice, but they didn't appear.
I'm very hesitant to uninstall and reinstall. I lose too much data and
time. Every upgrade install since 2.0 has been a problem which
required d/l from scratch using IE after SM failed to start. Had just
tried going to 2.9, with another failure. This time something happened
(I don't know what) and IE wouldn't open either. Did two restores
(took two), then added a second profile into which I pasted my backup
copy.
Back in business now, but really, really don't want to try another
disastrous install. Guess I'm stuck with a theme I don't care for.
(Oddly, on my wife's computer upgrades go flawlessly.)
Thanks for trying anyhow!
You should try using SM2.9 on a completely virgin profile and see if the
intrinsic Classic&Modern themes appear. If your installation appeared to
go smoothly, this appears to be an issue of, maybe, a corrupt profile.
Alternatively, I've got 3 themes on AMO that are built off of the Modern
theme as their template, as follows:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/all-american/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/oh-canada-1/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/viva-mexico-1/
Cheers!
Oops! Forgot to ask my other question. How do I install 2.9 "on a
completely virgin profile"? The normal update process leaves the profile
alone (corrupt?), and a complete install (e.g. from IE) destroys the
profile information so I have to build it from scratch and lose all Mail
and News history. If I then use my backup copy of the profile, don't I
introduce the possible corruption again?
REF: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#Creating_a_new_profile
Creating a new profile is the easy part, see link above. After you've
created it, start SM with it to see if the intrinsic themes are there.
If they are, that will confirm that the older profile has been
corrupted. However, a new profile will not carry over any over you mail
or other settings from the older profile so migrating those becomes a
much more dicey task. That's why it's important just to test the new
profile first, to confirm if it's the old profile at all.
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