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Messages - Dave Yeo

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Applications / Re: SeaMonkey question
« on: August 17, 2015, 04:43:46 am »
Usually it is a DLL conflict, perhaps libc065 vs the libc065 forwarder that comes with libc066. If using yum/rpm, make sure that @UNIXROOT\usr\lib is at the front of your LIBPATH, probably OK to have . before it. Otherwise search your system for duplicates and make sure the most recent ones are loaded first. You might need to unlock them with the unlock command, move out of the way and reboot.

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Applications / Re: SeaMonkey question
« on: August 15, 2015, 07:08:03 am »
WPI is the easy way but you want to update a zip install and the WPI may not delete everything leading to instability. Once you install the WPI, you should be able to upgrade/downgrade. Perhaps Doug will chime in as he wrote the WPI install scripts.
I'm using SM 2.28 (Hobbes), based on the Firefox 31ESR line and support ran out just the other day (the 11th).
2.28 has been very stable here as well as having the fewest feature failures as any of the last few releases. I did have problems with history at first, which I blame on an addon and eventually deleted places.sqlite ( my backup was  accidentally updated to contain the broken places.sqlite) . The session restore also seems partially broken (doesn't update often and forgets where in a page you were) and I believe that is the reason it wasn't actually released on the tier 1 platforms.

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Applications / Re: SeaMonkey question
« on: August 15, 2015, 01:48:14 am »
Assuming you are using %MOZILLA_HOME%, just move your SeaMonkey-2.3 directory out of the way and install SM 2.7.2 in the original location or install SM 2.7.2 to a different location and start using it. Either way your profile will be left alone. Always a good idea to backup your profile anyways.
If you are not using %MOZILLA_HOME%, it's a bit harder as you will have to use the profile manager to create a new profile and then point it at your old one.
Either way it is recommended to not install over an existing install though I understand the WPI will allow upgrading a WPI install.
Why only update to 2.7.2? It'll have security issues, won't display some pages correctly and will have SSL issues.
Note that if upgrading to 2.21 or newer and going back, you may have to rebuild your MSF files as the format changed.

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Internet / Re: Thunderbird 31.6
« on: August 12, 2015, 05:02:41 am »
@Eirek, the problem is that the profiles are somewhat fragile and that Firefox is moving so fast that the volunteer efforts such as TB and SM are having a hard time keeping up.
As I mentioned earlier, you could try saving the passwords with an older version. Might have to delete key.db and signons.sqlite again. There were cases in some of the articles where only a new profile cured the problem

@Greggory, this is usually a DLL conflict. Jan-Erik posted a script to fix in the Firefox 31.8.0 thread (untested here) or make sure that you don't have multiple libc06*.dlls installed.

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Applications / Re: Firefox and thumbnails in profile directory.
« on: August 11, 2015, 03:49:57 am »
The second one should finish turning off the thumbnails, whether needed or not, I don't know.

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Applications / Re: Firefox and thumbnails in profile directory.
« on: August 11, 2015, 01:12:19 am »
In about:config, create these Boolean settings,  (right click on page)
name: browser.pagethumbnails.capturing_disabled with value: true
name: pageThumbs.enabled with value: false

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Applications / Re: Firefox 31.8.0 Beta 5 - First Impressions
« on: August 10, 2015, 09:33:05 pm »
Have you tried this with a new profile (firefox.exe -profilemanager and create new)?

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Internet / Re: Thunderbird 31.6
« on: August 10, 2015, 06:09:50 pm »
Not remembering passwords in Thunderbird seems to be a common problem. Couple of articles,
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2711411
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/995190
Google finds many more.

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Using magic is the proper way. Installing file (yum install file or hunt down a zip file) will install magic for reference,with yum/rpm in @UNIXROOT\usr\share\misc\magic. File is used to ID files, file foo.

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Internet / Re: Thunderbird 31.6
« on: August 10, 2015, 04:47:03 pm »
@Eirik, what kind of mail server? You could try using an older version to store your password. Note that if using an older version, you may have to rebuild your msf files. Right click on folder and choose properties-->repair folder.
@Roderick,  first try to set MOZ_NO_RWS=1 in your environment and see if that fixes.

I also forgot to package the README.OS2, it is the same as in the current Firefox and SeaMonkey.

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Internet / Re: Thunderbird 31.6
« on: August 10, 2015, 02:56:40 am »
Wish I knew why it is so slow. Here I get the hourglass pointer when scrolling, delays when selecting a message and such. CPU meter doesn't spike and no disk activity. Memory moves?

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Internet / Re: Thunderbird 31.6
« on: August 09, 2015, 06:02:38 am »
I've uploaded Thunderbird 31.8.0 to Hobbes.

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Internet / Re: Firefox vulnerabilities.
« on: August 09, 2015, 05:57:04 am »
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I didn't find a setting to switch off javascript

That is where  the NoScript addon or PrefBar comes to the fore.  NoScript allows you to select just what javascript is run and Prefbar gives switching off that and flash player.

I like NoScript as well but it is work as it is based on whitelists and blocks everything by default and some sites will just not work without allowing some scripts and if you have to interact with a site, some scripts are needed.
If visiting sketchy sites NoScript is an important add-on.
For most main stream sites the infection vector is often 3rd party ads. Block them and you've blocked the main vector as well as speeding up your site loading. Adblock Plus is the popular addon for ad blocking. There are also solutions such as privoxy www.privoxy.org and/or sending offending sites into a black hole with entries in your hosts file, eg http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm. Hosts file lives in %ETC% and can be replaced with 3rd party ones (back yours up and copy any entries into the new one).
Flash can also be set to "Click to Play" in the Addon Manager

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Internet / Firefox vulnerabilities.
« on: August 08, 2015, 06:51:53 am »
OS/2 users can get pretty compliant about security as we have a minor platform that was relatively secure. as such many users do not update browsers and other potentially insecure software.
Here is an example of a security vulnerability that allows a malicious actor to download any file on our computers, https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/. While only targeted at Windows and Linux, there is no reason that it couldn't also target everything in general.
Luckily this particular vulnerability doesn't affect us due to not being up to date, our old browsers quite possibly have vulnerabilities.
I suggest not running JavaScript by default, perhaps using no-script. Not loading ads as often they come from somewhere else and have exploits attached as the ad companies don't seem to care much. Adblock Plus is one solution. And minimizing usage of Flash by going into the addons manager and setting Flash to always ask for permission to run. Especially important given our old version of Flash. Same could be done for Java.

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Applications / !Re: What happend to XUL.DLL?
« on: August 08, 2015, 05:43:28 am »
I'd recommend that everyone add "G" to their run! commands on the odd chance that something interesting is logged during a crash etc.

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