Mr. Cheese wrote:
Not sure when it started but I can no longer view/print PDF's I may have to ditch SeaMonkey (been a user since newscape days) Anyone know how to get around this problem before I take such drastic action?
I've never tried to use the built-in PDF reader in Seamonkey. I know that with most PDF readers, one of the offered options in installation is whether or not you want to run the reader from inside your browser, or not. That's how a plug-in works, where it's an external installation that makes itself available inside the browser.
At the moment, I'm running PDF-XChange, but I've had the same experience with Foxit.
If you're wanting to use the internal PDF tool and it's not behaving the way you want it, why would you have to abandon use of Seamonkey?
This issue is not a structural issue with Seamonkey, but it's something that's related to your profile. I don't know the details well, but it's possible that something could be mis-set with one of the variables in about:config, or that something isn't quite right in one of the supporting SQLite databases.
Have you tried launching Seamonkey in Safe Mode? That will temporarily disable all your extensions, and also temporarily disable many (but not all) of your personal preference settings. Is this still a problem in Safe Mode? I've also found that sometimes, a one-time launch in Safe Mode is enough to clear some problems of this nature. Also, what extensions and add-ons are you running?
If the problem goes away in Safe Mode, but then reappears when you do a normal restart, there's several things that you might do:
1) Check your extensions. If you have just a few installed, uninstall and reinstall -- problems of this nature can frequently be related to misbehaving extensions, and a fresh install of an extension can help.
2) If you have a lot of extensions, you can identify which extension is having problems either by disabling extensions one a time until the problem goes away, or by disabling everything, and then enabling one at a time until the problem returns. Or you can do a hybrid approach of disabling half of your extensions -- if the problem is there, then continue disabling extensions, or if the problem isn't there, start enabling extensions. When you identify the problem extension, remove it, and/or reinstall.
3) One of the options of Safe Mode is to have Seamonkey do a reset. If Safe Mode is clearing the problem, and it's returning when you restart in normal mode, I highly recommend this.
4) A more extreme approach to a reset would be with creating a new profile, where by definition, all your settings are default. If you're using Seamonkey just as a browser, this isn't a big thing, as typically, the only thing you need from your old profile is likely to be your bookmarks. However, it's a little more effort to build a new profile when you're also doing mail/news, because you have to copy or redo your server configs, copy your mail stores and your contacts list, and that takes more poking at file level within your profile.
To re-iterate, the problem isn't a Seamonkey structural problem that can be fixed with coding. It's something that you have to sort out in your user profile.
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