Poldek wrote:
Lee wrote:
On 1/5/15, Poldek <[email protected]> wrote:
With the new versions of Seamonkey I see new features and new bugs all
the time. The old bugs are still there for years already. I have been
with Netscape 2, Netscape 4 and then Seamonkey for all those years and
loved it. I have it on all of my 3 Windows machines: XP SP3, Vista and
Win7 HP 64 bit. But recently it's becoming not possible to use Seamonkey
anymore.
1. On my XP SP3 machine I can not download any file neither upload any
file to the web. It simply doesn't do anything after clicking
Save/Upload.
Have you tried creating a new user profile?
downloading to a different directory?
Yes, I tried with new user profile on this XP machine.
1. If I created new Seamonkey user profile on the same Windows XP user
account I have the same problem.
2. Different Windows XP account and download/upload in Seamonkey works OK.
But I need this to be working on all accounts, not only administrative
account.
I've no chance to try dwnloading to a dfferent directory because there
is no dialog for choosing directory. There is only the dialog tab with
"Save" and "Cancel". I choose "Save" and the cursor changes to
glasshour. If I don't move mouse than glasshour stays there. As soon as
I move mouse, cursor changes to normal and that's all.
I tried deinstallation and installation of Seamonkey, but had no
improvement in this matter.
Which proves an number of things:
The problem is *not* with SeaMonkey on Win XP SP3. SeaMonkey works just
fine on Win XP SP3 however using Windows XP on a public network is a
questionable endeavor.
The problem is *not* with administration rights. Just installed SM2.31
on a non-admin VirtualBox XP and downloads just fine.
It is your profile that is buggered.
What you need to determine is the problem confined to your SeaMonkey
profile or is your User Profile infected.
Here is what I would do.
1) Create a new SeaMonkey profile in your Windows user profile, run
seamonkey.exe -ProfileManager
2) In the new profile if you can download and upload then your profile
is buggered and proceed to step 4. If not then you are in more serious
trouble proceed to step 3.
3) You are ether infected or something is corrupted in your profile
settings in the registry. You're going to have fun tracking down the
problem yourself because not many shops are going to bother debugging an
XP system but will gladly sell you a new system. STOP HERE
4) SeaMonkey profile is screwed up somehow. Here are your options.
a) Do you have a backup of your profile before it started misbehaving?
If yes, then good for you! Your one of the 10% that I encounter and your
job will be much simpler. Go to
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles
and whatever your original profile's name is because it random salt for
the name and rename it to preserve it.
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\original.default to
original.default.BAD
Then restore from backup to
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\original.default
Then restore your current mail
copy /y original.default.BAD\Mail original.default\Mail
Then edit the profile.ini up one directory to start with your original
profile and not the one you created step 1
StartWithLastProfile=1
b) So you were typically bad and have no backup so rename your original
profile like in (a)
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\original.default to
original.default.BAD
Then rename your newly created profile to your original profile name
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\new_profile.default to original.default
Then restore your current mail
copy /y original.default.BAD\Mail original.default\Mail
Then restore bookmarks, passwords, history, etc...
copy /y original.default.BAD\*.sqlite original.default\
And security keys
copy /y original.default.BAD\*.db original.default\
Then edit the profile.ini up one directory to start with your original
profile and not the one you created step 1
StartWithLastProfile=1
That should fix it. Once you are absolutely sure all is fixed you can
delete the corrupted profile.
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\Profiles\original.default to
original.default.BAD
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Take care,
Jonathan
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LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
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