Rufus wrote:
Geoff Welsh wrote:
Rufus wrote:
Geoff Welsh wrote:
Oh, I see
"Bug 724293 - SeaMonkey on Mac OS X does not open HTML files or
hyperlinks correctly when using the profile manager "
I was confused because I didn't realize that the Profile Manger was
used
to open HTML files. I thought it was for switching profiles.
GW
Yes, it's not - but according to the team members that have
responded to
my bug the solution was/is to stop invoking Profile Manager at
startup...which threw me too. But PM is the culprit...somehow.
And even then, that only partially works - not invoking PM at startup
will allow SM to directly open a link from an e-mail, etc. but SM
still
will not navigate to and properly open the HTML based on-disk Help
files
for my Epson Printer - 1.x.x did, but 2.x.x does not.
so File/Open.... and then you navigate to and select... anything.html
and it doesn't open? I'll have to try that on my 2.17 machine
thanks for the explanation.
GW
I can do that and that works, but I shouldn't have to navigate deep into
my Applications folder and manually open the Index to the Epson Help
files - I should just be able to double click the Epson Help icon and
have it open. This is a problem with link/path following and not file
handling.
Not sure why it will work with a link in an e-mail, and not for an
on-disk path, but that's what's happening...and again, even I have a
hard time seeing what this all has to do with the Profile Manager but
there's clearly a code path that PM has something to do with that is
broken. Somewhere...and I think this is only a problem for/with Mac OS.
I don't think that I have SM set/selected as the default
"~~local HTML file opener~~"
in OSX, but I can change that to test what you are saying.
GW
(on older machine right now, not w/SM2.17)
That's not really it - I have SM set as my default *browser* instead of
Safari (Safari is the OS X default, like Explorer is the default for
Windows); if I want to use Safari I have to manually launch it.
In this instance SM is the default for opening *any* .html file type or
URL link or Alias to that file type from launch within the OS at top
level - that's why this is an OS interface issue for SM.
If I set Safari as my default browser everything works just as it
should, and as SM formerly did under the 1.x.x series. In this case I
have to manually launch SM to use it.
I think somewhere buried deep in Aqua/Darwin there is a difference
between a default "web" browser and a default file-type-opener.
I too have SM set as the OS X default browser (from the Safari
preferences), but what about your Get Info / Open With file settings?
On some .html files I wrote years ago I have FF set as the opener, and
on some I have SM set as the opener (IDR why).
In both cases everything acts normally/works here.
have you tried doing a Get Info / Open With and then the "change all"
option to make, say, FF open them (.html) all? And then after verifying
that works, go back and do a "change all" to set SM as the open with?
worth a shot anyway.
GW
OS X 10.6.8, SM 2.17.1 momentarily
(usually on Moz.SM using older machine)
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