SeaMonkey huh?

well now that I did a new install of the old NS7.2 on this new XP machine and finally (manually) got the admin account and the limited account to use the same bookmarks and email files.... I see the notice about it vunerabilities... AGHHH!

I like the suite and tried the newer 8.? for a while on a previous rebuiild.. went back to 7.2

Yea, I set XP to the classic styles too..

So... since all my old bookmarks are on a different machine and I havent moved them here and rebuilt them yet...

1) Where is this SeaMonkey?

2) It will pickup the settings from NS7.2 when I install it right?

3) any other tricks I should know?

Thanks

dave

 

Dave,
I have no idea what you are talking about, although I can try to guess.
Answering your questions: 1. Beats me, but you could tell us about this new machine/old machine dichotomy. Like what do you have on your present XP, and what is this old machine about.
2.If Seamonkey is not installed now, and you install it, on your present system, and you don't uninstall NS7.2, Seamonkey will pick up your profile, and, if you keep using both browsers with the same profile, you will have mess, sooner or later. I uninstalled NS7.2, and I am using its profile with Seamonkey. I had to remove some extention, which was not compatible, but no biggie.
Now, make believe that you know nothing about your situation, and try to understand your post. I think that you will find it a bit perplexing.

 

Sorry about that Westside

Its a LONG story... the gist of it is I built a new p4 2.8 based machine last Jan to replace our aging Athlon 850 / Win 98SE machine built in 99. The new P4 lasted 3 months until it "melted down" (I think... really do not know what happened... but almost every 12 vt powered unit (3 drives, two fans) were killed... including a brand new Raptor 36.7g.) Only thing I can think of that would do that was a 120 vt AC spike of some kind that somehow made it through the power supply and sent something greater than 12 vt to these units. At first thought a bad PS but it tested good. Could have been a bad CPU fan and when the CPU overheated sent extraneous voltages to places it wasn't supposed to... could be a bad vtg regulator on the mb... anyway, it was history... and decided to ditch that mb/cpu and start over. Weird part is that it shut down just fine the night before and obviously could not boot with all the bad hardware the next morning. Totally unplugged and isolated all night too. Who knows....? Its a mystery. The mb, cpu, ram, and contollers all tested fine though... but I couldn't trust it.

I've now been in the process of rebuilding a new AMD based XP machine... and since I'm new to XP its required several retries due to both hardware and software issues... although the "at the time unknown" dead Raptor mentioned above (my win98 based HW diagnostics cant do SATA) and a factory new bad SATA replacement for it sure didn't help matters. That’s a story for a different day. Gave up on Raid. Not worth the aggravation.

Well during this process I've kept my old Athlon 850 intact and upon a cleanup/cleanout will still be our backup machine. It’s slow by today’s standards but "knock-on-wood" so far is still fine. Since I've used Netscape since Adam and Eve; I have a boatload of contacts, archives, and bookmarks still on it. Not hard to copy those files and replace the related newly installed NS7.2 files on the new machine... just haven't yet. Will have to see how Seamonkey is doing that... may just copy to it. It was a PIA to get XPs Admin account and the limited account to use the same email and bookmark files although this was aggravated by the fact that the limited account will not see into the Admin account directory structure which was the first way I set it... had to reverse it. I'm trying to have the new machine generally run in limited mode since this Sat modem is a full time always on type of connection (assuming its powered up).

Teaching my self the XP OS and trying to tighten it down and disable stuff a standalone doesn’t need has been a challenge (to put it mildly). I really distain mediocresoft and all it's "phone home" garbage. Some of the XP Pro stuff I really didn't need... but didn't know anything yet... still only know enough to seriously F&^& it up sometimes which then required a brand new OS install. Still waiting for MS's reaction for the half dozen new installs since I bought it for the p4 machine in Jan., several raid tries, and a couple of "Oops, I guess it really did need that ", which was mostly related to communications. The Home version might have been better... but it probably does way too much behind the scenes for my tastes too.

Anyway, the gist of the above post was that since I just that day had finished installing the older NS7.2 because I like it. (I tried 8.x and whatever the mail counterpart was called... on the p4 machine in Jan... but really didn't like it... so was going back to 7.2 on this new AMD based machine). It wasn't until after the install that I saw the "Vulnerabilities" "Obsolete" statement on WinBBS and the recommendation for Seamonkey. Just about my luck it seems on this rebuild from H. Thus the title of "Seamonkey Huh?"

I guess my attitude was showing. These computers are wonderful tools when they work... but WILL DRIVE ONE TO THE FUNNY FARM when they don't. $MS doesn't help either for us old timers who still dilusionally believe these things are only supposed to do what we (the owners) tell it. Still drives me crazy to see the modem going busy and the drives getting active when I've not told it anything. Still need to research in detail this Nvidia "hardware controller residing" FW. Its set as tight as it can on factory defaults but I want to restrict it only to a few programs and OS executables. Zero from the outside.

Anyway sorry for the confusion. Still need to know where to get Seamonkey. There is an "unofficial netscape" web page... but the address for it is still on the dead 36g raptor and not retrievable (motor fried... will not even spin up, platters are likely fine). Google will find it. Just thought I'd ask since I was already at the WinBBS site.

Regards,
Dave
Hillsboro, Ohio

 

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