Richard Owlett wrote:
i have been using SeaMonkey 2.26 with a *HEAVILY* customized profile for
eons ;/
I have just installed SM 2.40to its ow directory.
It apparently behaves properly regarding my existing profiles.
What I *REQUIRE* is the ability to browse any/all websites as if it were
a virgin default install.
HOW????
[Ignore any/ALL email/newsgroup issues!!!!!]
Use the Profile manager to create a new profile, where all the settings
are default.
I often encourage this, as a way of troubleshooting problem profiles.
Most of the time, Safe Mode works, but not always. Creating a new
profile (even if for temporary use) is usually far more productive than
trying to do an uninstall/reinstall. In my experience, troublesome
behavior is nearly always related to the profile, and not either program
binaries or, if running in Windows, the Windows registry.
For me personally, I keep a second profile called Bare Metal, which is
almost entirely default settings. Although I've made a couple of
preference tweaks, I deliberately minimize those. Thus, if I'm having
problems with a web site in my primary profile (where I have a lot of
tweaking of preference settings, and use of extensions), I can quickly
change over to the Bare Metal profile, to see if I'm having an issue
with Seamonkey, or if it's something specific to my profile. Nearly
always, it's a profile issue.
With Seamonkey, getting to the profile manager is easier than with
Firefox or Thunderbird. For those, you have to launch with
"-profile-manager" on a command line (I think I got the syntax correct),
and then there's a setting that you can tick to force launching the
profile manager every time, so that you can choose which profile that
you want. In Seamonkey, all it takes is to go to Tools -> Switch Profile.
Smith
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