On Wed, 23 May 2012 20:20:08 +0100, Rickles wrote:
> Philip Chee wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 May 2012 19:13:20 +0100, Rickles wrote:
>>> I have been a long-standing user of the Mozilla/SM suite.  Current
>>> user/agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120429
>>> Firefox/12.0 SeaMonkey/2.9.1
>>>
>>> Since upgrading from 2.7.1 thru 2.8 and now to 2.9.1, I've experienced a
>>> problem with some purchasing thru Amazon.co.uk, most specifically their
>>> MP3 download center.  Everything works normally until I go to the
>>> checkout screen--page appears to load with lots of activity messages
>>> flashing at the bottom of the SM browser window, and when the page is
>>> done loading I'm left with a completely blank white page.
>>>
>>> On my wife's laptop with exactly the same theme, plugins and extensions
>>> installed on a Win7 SP1 OS, the same page works as expected.  I've
>>> attempted to track down the offending piece of my profile by disabling
>>> all add-on modules and even the internal Chatzilla, DOM Inspector and
>>> Javascript debugger, intending to start turning them back on one at a
>>> time to find the culprit, but it does the same thing no matter what.
>>>
>>> I have created a new test profile with nothing extra installed, and it
>>> works.  Rather than going thru the (painful!) process of migrating my
>>> profile (yet again, done it a few times since 2.0 came out, lost things
>>> in the process), I'd like to track down what may be the reason behind
>>> this.  Had a look thru all the text-based files in the root of the
>>> 'damaged' profile and the one thing I suspect is the extensions.RDF
>>> file--there are instances of info related to extensions that used to
>>> work but have been dropped/uninstalled over time that I want to clear
>>> out.  Can this be done without making the profile unusable?  Or can I
>>> simply delete the file with SM shut down and expect it to rebuild at
>>> next startup?
>>>
>>> Or better yet, can anyone recommend a better place to look?
>>
>> Just delete it. It will be rebuilt.
>>
>> Phil
>>
> Thanks Phil, but no, it didn't rebuild.  I've stopped/restarted SM 
> several times since deleting the file with SM not running, and it's not 
> re-creating it.  But even with that file missing, it's not changed the 
> original problem at all.

On newer SeaMonkey's extensions.rdf isn't used and is probably a left
over. Look for extensions.sqlite

Phil

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