Seamonkey over Mozilla 1.7

I'm wanting to upgrade to Seamonkey without losing all my profiles and preferences. I would actually prefer to run Mozilla and Seamonkey side-by-side until I am absolutely sure Seamonkey is as stable as Mozilla.

What's the drill? Any thoughts or tips would be appreciated.

Can I just install SeaMonkey? Without uninstalling Mozilla? Will I be able to uninstall Mozilla without affecting Seamonkey?

Thanks

 

You can install Seamonkey, without uninstalling Mozilla, but you can't flip-flop between the two programs, using a single profile. If you create a separate profile there is no problem. The drill is the same as in the old days with Netscape7.x vs. Mozilla. So, you have to make a decision. Either one or other, or another profile.

 

Tell me, briefly, how to do it--how to create a separate profile; and, if they cannot share a profile, is there a way to transfer settings, preferances, and so forth, from the Mozilla profile to the separate SeaMonkey profile?

 

http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/NS7newprofile.html
http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/ns7bypassprofilemgr.html

The first link tells you how to create a profile, into which you can have the same info (you cannot use the same profile for both because each should have a prefs.js file into which unique info for the program is entered).
The second one will be necessary, as the profile manager will come up. You by-pass it for two reasons. First as convenience, secondly it eliminites the chance that you may pick the wrong one. The existing profile is called default. You can pick any name you want for the other one.