On 02/09/19 22:19, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
...>
There are a dozen or more different internal function which do nothing
but open an url/link in one way or the other. When I find the time I
will probably merge them. Fx already did it. We still want older classic
add-ons still to work so this is harder in SM to do.
I'm sure you'll be careful!
I did come late to the SeaMonkey game and don't know much about design
choices but untangling the components is one of the very low low
priority items on any list. It is an integrated suite not a mailer or
standalone browser. Would need an internal redesign to allow the
components to work independently and rest assured this will not happen
soon or ever with the current developer resource shortage.
It could be useful to run the SM suite browser and mail/news in separate
processes so that (a) when the browser is inevitably crashed by some web
garbage email isn't affected (b) in the 32-bit world using a lot of
browser tabs wouldn't affect the virtual memory available to mail/news
(c) the two components could have different UI and extension
customisations: like Opera's Hugin/Munin
<https://vangeijt.home.xs4all.nl/opera/huginmunin.html> of long ago.
To bring some certainty to this debate, I created a command script that
displays its parameters in a dialog box (Linux LXLE 16.04, thanks Ronnie):
#!/bin/sh
exec zenity --info --title " Test Browser" --text "$(printf "%-40s" "$*")"
I installed the "standalone-seamonkey-mail" extension referenced in the
thread above by myself and another contributor
<https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/addon/standalone-seamonkey-mail/>
and set the script as my "external browser".
With this configuration in SM 2.49.5, clicking a link in message
launches the script, solving the OP's problem without any additional
development effort, as well as opening the way to a two process
configuration as above.
Perhaps someone could try it with 2.53? Or a similar test in some
version of Windows or OSX?
/df
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