Geoff Welsh wrote:
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.
...there's no such thing as "default file type opener" in OS X that the
user can set directly - not without using Terminal, I'd suspect and I
haven't done anything like that. There are default applications for
file types determined by file Creator app, but they aren't user
assignable. .html files by default belong to the user selected default
browser.
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?
There aren't any such settings that I have changed. OS X will ask if it
gets "confused", but you can't assign a default app to a file unless you
do a Get Info on the individual file. Even so, the issue still remains
that SM 1.1.19 works, and SM 2.x.x doesn't.
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.
All I want is the defaults to work as they did previously - SM is
broken, not OS X.
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)
No...and *double* no. I'm not going to do something that drastic for
one app that even the developers of the app agree has an issue.
--
- Rufus
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