I've just updated SeaMonkey 2.26.1 to 2.33 on Windows Vista. Some notes
on a few issues and solutions I came across, in case they help anyone
else...
First off, back up your profile before updating - usually a good idea
anyway, just in case the new version messes something up in the profile
such that it won't even work in the old version.
1. Crash on Startup - due to missing xulstore.json
2. UI Customisations Lost - does anyone know a solution?
3. Saves Passwords Lost - fix found
1. Crash on Startup - due to missing xulstore.json
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After updating, every time I started SeaMonkey with the old profile, it
prompted for the master password but crashed after cancelling that
prompt. I tracked this down to xulstore.json being missing from my
existing profile folder. Creating an empty xulstore.json file in the
root of the profile allowed SeaMonkey to start. To find your profile
folder, see:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey
I've reported this at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1143503
It may be relevant that I have two Windows user accounts set up. One a
standard user account, and the other an administrator account (which I
mainly use through UAC - I hardly ever log in to it directly). To update
SeaMonkey, I ran it as Administrator, checked for updates and allowed it
to update. Restarted SeaMonkey, again run as Administrator, to apply the
update. SeaMonkey crashed the first time after applying the update, but
was then OK running as Administrator. However, running as the standard
user it crashed every time immediately after dismissing the prompt for
master password.
2. UI Customisations Lost - does anyone know a solution?
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After fixing the above issue, a lot of the UI had reverted to defaults.
For example:
- All mail folders were collapsed (usually they remember the last state).
- Window division positions were reset (e.g. I previously had the folder
pane wider and the message pane shorter in Mail & News).
- Lightning reverted to day view, rather than month view.
Subsequently changing things and restarting, the customisations are
remembered. This is a one-off reset after the update.
This is probably related to the first issue, since xulstore.json
replaces localstore.rdf for storing UI customisation. See:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Localstore.rdf
So creating an empty xulstore.json probably put everything to defaults.
Perhaps an interim update would have converted localstore.rdf to
xulstore.json and avoided both these issues.
I haven't found a solution for this. Does anyone know of an easy way to
convert an old localstore.rdf to xulstore.json format?
3. Saves passwords lost - fix found
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One I recall someone else mentioning recently. Storage of saved
passwords has also changed at some point since 2.26.1. They're supposed
to be converted, but this hadn't happened. Possibly because I didn't
need to use stored passwords during the first start, so cancelled the
master password prompt.
The solution suggested at:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13742105#p13742105
worked for me. As noted, this may not work if you've saved any passwords
since upgrading.
Hope that's of some help.
Mark.
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