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. GWYes, 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. GWI 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.
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- Rufus
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