Hi everyone. The new release 2.1.9 for Windows (I use XP professional) has made what I consider the worst change ever in history....
Some background: I have been using the Seamonkey suite, and prior to it, Mozilla, and prior to that, Netscape, since time immemorial (o.k., 1996). Up till this morning, I absolutely loved it. Now I'm ticked off and for the first time ever am considering switching, but I don't want to. Tell me if there's some configuration tweak I can make to get back to what I liked. (I do know the "about:config" method, but so far can't locate what parameter I could change.) * * * Below are some screenshots taken at 100% text zoom level in 2.1.9 and ditto in Google Chrome (yuck, I know, but I like the display in these shots). For the purpose, since I no longer have the older version of Seamonkey, the files with "chrome" in the filename can substitute for how the old Seamonkey rendered pages (and the type of display I like). The ones with "seamonkey-219" are with the new (ugly) display. In 2.1.9, I tried to adjust the zoom level, with the menu (View, text Zoom, etc.) and with Ctrl + scroll-wheel, as usual, but I can't get anything I like. I specifically want to avoid having to scroll sideways to see all the content, and even at 20% zoom I can't get rid of it. I hate this. [One thing that may seem odd when you see these screenshots: I use a 24" monitor set up in "portrait" orientation, and though I do have a pivot to switch it to "landscape", I find "portrait" works best for most of my uses, and so I leave it in that orientation all the time. What you see in these shots of the active window represents about 85% of the whole screen, which is how I like it; this leaves a sliver at the bottom for the media player and the windows task bar.] I wonder whether the designer of the new behavior in 2.1.9 thought only of people using their monitors in landscape orientation? I like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3695954/BBC-news-130705-chrome.jpg and this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3695954/CBC-news-130705-chrome.jpg I absolutely hate this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3695954/BBC-news-130705-seamonkey-219.jpg or this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3695954/CBC-news-130705-seamonkey-219.jpg I don't want to show a screenshot of my gmail, but it looks awful under 2.1.9. * * * Is there any way for me to get back to the display I like without abandoning Seamonkey? Thank you. Germán Pareja Vancouver _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
