Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives me a link to Media Viewer; but the help page for that is over my head.
I tried posting via Gmane to seamonkey.user, but have had no replies. I tried dnf reinstall seamonkey (with seamonkey not open), but that didn't help.
It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it?
On 6/26/24 10:25 AM, Beartooth wrote:
Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives me a link to Media Viewer; but the help page for that is over my head.
I tried posting via Gmane to seamonkey.user, but have had no replies. I tried dnf reinstall seamonkey (with seamonkey not open), but that didn't help.
It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it
If I remember correctly, recent Seamonkey updates were wonky with previous builds of Seamonkey.
I want to say I exited Seamonkey, renamed my ~/.mozilla/seamonkey directory to something like ~/.mozilla/seamonkey.old, and launched Seamonkey again to rebuild my profile and it worked.
I only use it for the HTML editor, not the browser. But last time I had wonky behavior, renaming that directory reset it to defaults and my issues went away.
Give that a try and let us know?
On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:55:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
On 6/26/24 10:25 AM, I Beartooth wrote:
Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives me a link to Media Viewer; but the help page for that is over my head. [....] It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it
If I remember correctly, recent Seamonkey updates were wonky with previous builds of Seamonkey.
I want to say I exited Seamonkey, renamed my ~/.mozilla/seamonkey directory to something like ~/.mozilla/seamonkey.old, and launched Seamonkey again to rebuild my profile and it worked.
I did that, and rebooted.
I only use it for the HTML editor, not the browser. But last time I had wonky behavior, renaming that directory reset it to defaults and my issues went away.
Give that a try and let us know?
The result did show pix, but everything was all wonky, and the machine way way slow.
On 6/28/24 10:51 AM, Beartooth wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:55:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
On 6/26/24 10:25 AM, I Beartooth wrote:
Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives me a link to Media Viewer; but the help page for that is over my head. [....] It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it
If I remember correctly, recent Seamonkey updates were wonky with previous builds of Seamonkey.
I want to say I exited Seamonkey, renamed my ~/.mozilla/seamonkey directory to something like ~/.mozilla/seamonkey.old, and launched Seamonkey again to rebuild my profile and it worked.
I did that, and rebooted.
I only use it for the HTML editor, not the browser. But last time I had wonky behavior, renaming that directory reset it to defaults and my issues went away.
Give that a try and let us know?
The result did show pix, but everything was all wonky, and the machine way way slow.
That's bizarre. I'm using Seamonkey as my HTML editor on my F40 machine and it's just fine. I just went to a number of web sites and it seems pretty normal. You "reset it to factory defaults" and it's still acting weird. Is it using a lot of memory or CPU?
Sorry I don't have any better advice, Beartooth.
Beartooth composed on 2024-06-28 15:51 (UTC):
Beartooth wrote:
Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives me a link to Media Viewer; but the help page for that is over my head. [....] It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it
Presumably you're using the Fedora rpm. Try Buc's and/or Mozilla's binaries to see if it makes any difference. https://buc.fedorapeople.org/seamonkey/download/ https://archive.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.53.18.2/linux-x86_64/
Renaming ~/.mozilla/seamonkey is a sledgehammer. SeaMonkey has a -profilemanager switch same as Firefox, for adding, deleting & modifying profiles, including moving them to a more convenient location.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 3:44 PM Felix Miata mrmazda@earthlink.net wrote:
Beartooth composed on 2024-06-28 15:51 (UTC):
Beartooth wrote:
Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not
display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives me a link to Media Viewer; but the help page for that is over my head. [....] It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it
Presumably you're using the Fedora rpm. Try Buc's and/or Mozilla's binaries to see if it makes any difference. https://buc.fedorapeople.org/seamonkey/download/ https://archive.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.53.18.2/linux-x86_64/
I'm currently on F39, have been using seamonkey from the Fedora repos going back many, many, releases (at least back to F31, though probably farther). I mainly use it for e-mail, but when browsing have never had a problem with it showing pix. I have had it go into an excessive CPU usage state from time to time; I always just exit and restart it to "fix".
My main issue with seamonkey is that it seems to want to use plugins from firefox (even though different profiles), and one of my main reasons for wanting to use the seamonkey browser is for sites where firefox plugins break things (nowadays I tend to use chromium for that).
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:44:01 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Beartooth composed on 2024-06-28 15:51 (UTC):
Beartooth wrote:
Seamonkey under the last several releases of Fedora Linux does not display pix. It says, inter alia, "Error: could not load." It also gives me a link to Media Viewer; but the help page for that is over my head. [....] It used to be a good browser. Can I fix it
Presumably you're using the Fedora rpm. Try Buc's and/or Mozilla's binaries to see if it makes any difference. https://buc.fedorapeople.org/seamonkey/download/ https://archive.seamonkey-project.org/releases/2.53.18.2/linux-x86_64/
Renaming ~/.mozilla/seamonkey is a sledgehammer. SeaMonkey has a -profilemanager switch same as Firefox, for adding, deleting & modifying profiles, including moving them to a more convenient location.
What's a profile?
Beartooth composed on 2024-06-29 14:51 (UTC):
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:44:01 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Renaming ~/.mozilla/seamonkey is a sledgehammer. SeaMonkey has a -profilemanager switch same as Firefox, for adding, deleting & modifying profiles, including moving them to a more convenient location.
What's a profile?
Look in your SeaMonkey browser window's "Tools" menu, at the bottom. It's exactly the same concept as in Firefox, and most any other web browser: https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/profiles
It's much like a user login in /etc/passwd. You can create as many users on your Fedora OS as you please. Similar goes for browser profiles, except *each* user login may have as many browser profiles as he cares to create (possibly limited to 64 or 128). ~/.mozilla/seamonkey is a directory that defines it or them. ATM I have 6 for SeaMonkey and 20 for Firefox.