2.19 is (IMHO) Very Seriously Broken, and should have
been put down at birth rather than allowed to replace
2.17.1. I have reported this rather less subjectively
in an earlier message, to which there has been zero
response. I am therefore inclined to believe that the
Mail:NNTP gateway for this list is currently broken, and
that therefore no developers are reading messages posted here.
You will find a related discussion concerning Firefox,
but the suggested fix only addresses one aspect of
the problem, not all.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2725253
Philip Taylor
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G. J. Pareja wrote:
> 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
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