On 4/28/2016 9:47 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
Part of my problem is that Netscape/Mozilla Suite/SeaMonkey has
always
worked so well I've had no cause to search for answers for odd
questions.
*KUDOS* to generations of developers!!!!
Problems/questions discovered while going through mechanics of
creating
a very customized profile and moving existing data to it.
1. Data Manager lists sites that should never have any permanent
reference on my machine.
The only page I could find was
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Data_Manager> It has tabs for Cookies,
Permissions, Preferences, Passwords, and Storage Cookies: (which I
delete daily) and Passwords seem to be handled properly
Permissions
and Preferences: - what is function? I can think of no instance
where
I would like a site to deviate from my personal defaults for more
than a day. I routinely surf with cookies and JavaScript disabled.
Storage: - What is this?
The Data Manager has serious problems with user friendliness. Be
that as it may, it does kinda sorta work in some respects.
If you don't want sites to deviate from your defaults, don't list
them. Then you'll have no exceptions and none will deviate. But
if you want to visit a site that requires cookies and your
default is no cookies, it won't work. So then you'll have to make
an exception, and when you're done, remove the exception. Kind of
a PITA, eh?
There is only one site that I visit regularly that requires
cookies and JavaScript - my bank. I use Firefox for that site
only. Not that it is better in any way but I set its defaults for
that site and not use it for anything else. It's a KLUDGE but
"works for me" ;/
Partial workarounds:
1) Set SeaMonkey to accept only session cookies, which means that
each time you shut SM down the cookies are cleared.
2) Set SeaMonkey to Clear Private Data on shutdown (you can
define what it should clear and what it should retain).
That's what I've been doing [having checked "Always ask me ..."].
Once you
establish the definition of data to be cleared, you can do it
(CPD) manually as desired without shutting down: Tools | Clear
Private Data... or CTRL-SHIFT-DEL.
I hadn't been aware of CTRL-SHIFT-DEL. Now if only if one of the
listed preferences was "Disable JavaScript"!
2. In about:config is there any way to discover *ALL*
non-default items?
If you click the column heading "Status," the list will be sorted
on that parameter. "Default" appears first (in alphabetical
order), "User set" appears at the end. Click it again to reverse
the order.
I'm familiar with that. What I want is to save the "User Set"
items to a file for review [I have over 200 items]. I would then
create and appropriate user.js so creating a new "cruft-free"
profile could be simplified.
I don't know how to discover nonstandard (user-created) keys, but
all of those should be "user set" since there can be no default
for a key that doesn't exist out of the box.
I don't recall ever intentionally creating any keys. A list of
"user-created keys" would be useful as candidates for deletion in
a cruft-free profile.
3. "cert8.db - Security certificate settings " - what is in
there? In
a never used profile its size is 64 kb. In my active profile it is
704 kb.
Dunno, someone else will have to answer this.
If I get no nibbles, I'll post with a "cert8.db" specific subject
line.
Thank you.
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