Interviewed by CNN on 10/05/2012 20:06, George Carden told the world: > I have done this, MCBastos, with Thunderbird 12.0.1 and it appears to > have worked. HOWEVER, your warnings to NEVER open Thunderbird again have > me shaking in my boots. Is there any link, such as within Copernic > search result preview pain, etc., that would open Thunderbird if I were > to click it? If it has found a link on a search that is, say, an > attachment of a jpeg, or anything else, or even if I just double-click a > found e-mail in the preview pain to open it, will that open Thunderbird? > I have backed up my SeaMonkey profile as a safety precaution, but I'm > hoping to never need it.
No, I never had this sort of problem (opening Thunderbird by mistake). Copernic shows the message content on its own without invoking Thunderbird. But then, I don't think I have ever tried extracting an attachment from the Copernic interface. My warning against opening Thunderbird is based on an untested assumption: that there might be enough differences between the two products that could cause problems. But, as I said, I never tested it. It *might* be OK, but I just don't want to risk it. It depends on a few factors, about which we may make assumptions but I have no hard data: 1- Whether TB and SM have profile files with different internal structures yet the same name. I considered that a non-trivial risk if running, say, Seamonkey 1.9 with Thunderbird 3.1, since those are different Gecko versions. I consider the risk to be lowered if you are using a current Thunderbird, with the same Gecko version as SM -- but it might still be possible... 2- How TB and SM deal with unexpected things in their profile folders (unknown config settings, unknown files and such). I *think* they just ignore those (as opposed to, say, deleting them), but I'm not *sure*. 3- Whether either TB or SM aggressively changes any setting on boot (perhaps when detecting an "upgrade"). I don't think it likely -- if SM, say, NEEDS such-and-such values in about:config to run, the obvious way to deal with it would be to *ignore* the value in the config file, instead of changing it. But it's very good knowing that Copernic is still able to find the e-mails using newer versions of TB. Perhaps I'll update mine to either 10.x (LTS) or to the current one, now that 3.1.x was EOL'd... -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Apple Lisa. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.9 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
