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Seamonkey 2.28b5r2 will not accept addons.

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ivan:
You are correct Dave it is 157,213 bytes.  My excuse is that I had someone talking and I wasn't concentrating.

Any way, I wiped the disk and copied over a new OS/2 image that includes all the extra DLLs in a specific DLL directory, used a new partition to install Seamonkey but left the mozprofiles directory as it was from before and now Seamonkey does accept addons although getting them installed is slow because doing so runs the CPU at 100%.  Once installed and having closed the addons tab the CPU reverts to normal operation - since I don't anticipate having more than my normal 10 addons I don't see the 100% usage being a problem.

BTW, why are some of the Seamonky DLLs read only?

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: ivan on December 24, 2015, 08:12:55 pm ---now Seamonkey does accept addons although getting them installed is slow because doing so runs the CPU at 100%.  Once installed and having closed the addons tab the CPU reverts to normal operation - since I don't anticipate having more than my normal 10 addons I don't see the 100% usage being a problem.
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Strange, what CPU do you have?

--- Quote ---BTW, why are some of the Seamonky DLLs read only?

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Security, all the read only DLLs are security related and installed with mode 444, which equals read only for us. Note that for a while we had to patch the source to remove the read only part as mv needed updating to overwrite a read only file but Mozilla has been shipping them read only for a while.

ivan:
Hi Dave,

The CPU on this test machine is an AMD x2 64 2.5 GHz unit and there is only 3 Gig memory as well.  This is our lowest powered machine and other than being a test unit we also use it to run win XP in VBox.

Even on my AMD Athlon II x 6  3.0 GHz powered workstation the get and install addons page maxes out all the cores for a short time, but as I said it is not something I use all the time so I can live with it.

Thanks for your work in porting it to OS/2.

One other question.  Is there a way of getting a close tab button on the tabs in the browser window?

Dave Yeo:
Here installing an add-on doesn't seem to affect the CPU hardly at all. C2D at 2.6Ghz with 2GB memory, at least with the add-on referenced below. Possible CPU usage hidden due to needing to restart which does max out my CPU for a short while.
I built a test version yesterday targeted at my CPU and with the new fontconfig (needs work) and the add-on wouldn't even install with an error about unable to open file and the error console pointing to the xpi not opening with unix error 0. Strange as error 0 should mean no error.
For putting the close button on individual tabs, you need an add-on, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/seatab-x-2/ seems to work fine here with the SM I distributed, note the different possible preferences.

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