Migrating from SeaMonkey 1.1 to SeaMonkey 2.0

What motivated me to migrate was that YouTube and GMail now use standards that supersede those supported by SeaMonkey 1.1. Yes, the latter is still in many ways a modern browser and application suite and really the last one that still works in Windows 95.

Yet it's become difficult to browse websites, such as Gawker, New York Times and E24.ee, which are very script-heavy and I don't like seeing pop-up notifications about "this or that script taking too long to load" without necessarily losing useful site functionality with NoScript.

As it usually is standard practice when upgrading software from one major version to another, the older major version is typically uninstalled first and then a newer version installed. Windows users may want to restart...

Now, with SeaMonkey versions 1.1 and 2.0 it's far more trickier if a user wants to retain (in effect, migrate) their profile data. The trouble with SeaMonkey 2.0 is that its profile migration is not as elegant as it is, for example, in an upgrade from OpenOffice.org 2.x to 3.x.

Here's why: For profile migration to work, SeaMonkey 1.1 must be set as the default browser. If a user uninstalls it (and dutifully keeps profile data), SeaMonkey 1.1 will cease to exist as an installed application and thus it won't be the default browser. Even if SeaMonkey is installed, but not set as the default browser, SeaMonkey 2.0 will skip the migration routine and will default to creating a blank default profile.

The good points:

• SeaMonkey 1.1 and 2.0 can be installed side-by-side;
• In an administrator account, setting SeaMonkey 1.1 as the default browser should work throughout all Windows profiles;
• SeaMonkey 1.1 and 2.0 won't write to each other's profile data;
• I forgot what the fourth point was.

Just in case, copy all SeaMonkey 1.1 profile data over to a backup location. Move the SeaMonkey (1.1) Program Files folder to another location. Quit all instances of SeaMonkey 1.1, including the QuickLauncher (removed in 2.0).

Install SeaMonkey 2.0. Don't launch it from the installer, but start the SeaMonkey 2.0 Profile Manager. If it shows the default profile, launch Sm 2.0 and see if it offers to migrate profile data. If not and if you won't see your old bookmarks, then profile data has not been migrated. Quit.

Start the SeaMonkey 2.0 Profile Manager again.

Just in case: Outside the Profile Manager, open the folder location of your old SeaMonkey 1.1 default profile. In Windows XP This should be

C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\g1bb3r1sh.slt

Note that your actual profile folder contains other letters and numbers than g1bb3r1sh.slt, just that this is a useful example.

Note what the name of your SeaMonkey's default profile directory is. The purpose of this is to see if it's different from SeaMonkey 2.0's and if it is, then it's all fine.

Delete the existing new default profile in SeaMonkey 2.0, quit Profile Manager.

In a command line, go to SeaMonkey 2.0's installed directory, then follow instructions given in a MozillaWiki on SeaMonkey 2.0 profile migration:

• Create a profile with exactly the profile name of your old [default] profile
• and you should now get the migration dialog. Choose which profile to import data from.

Everything else should be relatively easy. Well, almost.

• Extensions must be installed anew.
• The whitelist of servers where extensions and themes can be installed from might not be migrated.
• I had trouble installing Flashblock from addons.mozilla.org, so I had to add flashblock.mozdev.org to the whitelist and install from there. No trouble installing NoScript from addons.mozilla.org.
• As it usually is with SeaMonkey browsers, the Flashblock toolbar button will not show automatically. Instead of opening the Preferences window, click on any free space in the SeaMonkey toolbar, then on Customize... A Firefox-like toolbar customization dialog should show up and the Flashblock toolbar item can be added wherever a user chooses in the toolbar (the standard location was next to the Home button in the Personal Toolbar). Because the computer where I installed SeaMonkey 2.0 does not have a printer, I dragged the printer button off the toolbar.
• Server whitelists for Flashblock and NoScript do not migrate. I had to manually type in server names into the new Flashblock whitelist, but I think its file can be migrated (haven't checked how to do it). NoScript allows exporting the whitelist, so I did that from SeaMonkey 1.1 and imported the whitelist in SeaMonkey 2.0 after installing NoScript.
• Even if a profile is migrated, SeaMonkey 2.0 will default to its default theme. If you used a Modern theme (built-in), then you'll have to choose it from the Add-on Manager and restart SeaMonkey. The selection and amount of themes for SeaMonkey 2.0 is different than for SeaMonkey 1.x.
• Important: Since all cookie data is dutifully copied over during migration, then cookies which have it that a user is still logged in at some e-mail or other service, persist. This means that before migration, users should first log out from all of their services in SeaMonkey 1.1, if they haven't done so before.
• The F10 keyboard shortcut to activate the menu does not work. Alt+menu hotkey does.
• If you use a separate profile for private browsing, re-check your preferences and settings to see that they are all correct.

Otherwise, things should should work the same, just that all this careful migration work takes time.

Ctrl+V, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X disabled, but Shift+Del/Ins & Ctrl+F not?

As the title suggests, it was one day impossible to cut, copy and paste in Windows XP across apps using Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and to use left-Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn to move around tabs in SeaMonkey. Shift+Del, Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins worked, so did Ctrl+F, Ctrl+Q and a few other keyboard shortcuts.

The keyboard was Logitech Internet Pro Keyboard (iTouch Pro or somesuch).

I did do my standard run through tech forums (even a keyboard driver change) and scans with software (Spybot Search & Destroy didn't find anything). MBAM found a few things, I deleted them (the scan log of this well below).

LATER it turned out that the non-standard www button on the keyboard was STUCK. I had it moved to normal position and then using the Ctrl+... keys worked like a charm, even after a restart. Trouble was that I failed to test if the Ctrl+ keys also worked after the MBAM scan and correction.

* Some text is in Estonian.

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Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.46
www.malwarebytes.org

Andmebaasi versioon: 4387

Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702

4.08.2010 10:19:46
mbam-log-2010-08-04 (10-19-46).txt

Kontrolli tüüp: Kiirkontroll
Kontrollitud objekte: 180205
Kulunud aeg: 9 minut(id), 31 sekund(id)

Nakatunud mälu objekte: 0
Nakatunud mälu mooduleid: 0
Nakatunud registrivõtmeid: 1
Nakatunud registri väärtusi: 1
Nakatunud registriandmeid: 0
Nakatunud kaustu: 2
Nakatunud faile: 0

Nakatunud mälu objekte:
(Pahavara ei tuvastatud)

Nakatunud mälu mooduleid:
(Pahavara ei tuvastatud)

Nakatunud registrivõtmeid:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{faad2038-c371-473d-86f1-5b11d39c3775} (Rogue.Multiple) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Nakatunud registri väärtusi:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Network\uid (Malware.Trace) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Nakatunud registriandmeid:
(Pahavara ei tuvastatud)

Nakatunud kaustu:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SalesMonitor (Rogue.Multiple) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SalesMonitor\Data (Rogue.Multiple) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Nakatunud faile:
(Pahavara ei tuvastatud)

BTC Keyboard driver and Netropa Internet Keyboard

This is basically a review of a software app

If anyone has a desire to download a keyboard driver (with an accompanying app) for a BTC keyboard (the model I encountered was a PS/2 model 5107), please be advised that the accompanying Netropa Internet Keyboard application also includes the Internet Receiver news ticker. Because of its annoying nature, I suggest that experimenting advanced users don't include that one when installing the app.

If, for some reason, Netropa Internet Keyboard or the Internet Ticker (which is still functional) cannot be uninstalled (by way of only having a limited user account), then just press the Print Scrn to turn it off.

The Channel Guide page for the Netropa Internet Receiver does not work.

Netropa Internet Keyboard itself modifies keyboard buttons' functions — F-buttons for web browsers and Print Screen, Scroll Lock and Pause|Break buttons.

The functionality that reorders F-buttons' usual intended functions affects browsers of the time when Netropa Internet Keyboard was released (typically in Internet Explorer). The reordered F-buttons target certain websites — some of which are offline and outdated. The functions can be re-set to a different website or portal from a selection of some preconfigured websites.

Changing or disabling the functions

The functions can be reordered or completely turned off for each button by pressing a function button for longer than a second, after which a menu appears and retargets the mouse cursor it. You can choose from a number of preconfigured websites.

To disable, take the cursor down to the Special sub-menu, then click Disable. The normal button behaviour will then return.

The reordered F-buttons don't work in Mozilla Firefox.

Conclusion

All in all, the additional functionality that captures/steals F-buttons' usual intended functions in a web browser is still annoying, as some of the normal functionality is also stolen. Neither is there a separate driver installed for the keyboard.

As it is, the intended target audience is probably a home user (who might wish to have quick access to certain websites), although advanced users are usually those who install drivers to devices.

Computer manufacturers or re-sellers might install accompanying applications in a new computer as part of one or many kickback agreements to lower the selling price of a new product.

Non-exhaustive list of some of the online stuff that isn't there or just online anymore:

Community
• iVillage /still operates, finally bought by NBC Universal, Inc. in 2006.
• GeoCities /acquired by Yahoo!, operating at geocities.yahoo.com

Finance
• Datek Online submenu /Datek Online Holdings Corporation merged with TD Ameritrade in 2002

Games
• heat.net /totally defunct

Greetings
• eGreetings.com /bought by American Greetings

Reference
• MySimon /acquired by c|net in January 2000 during the height of the dot-com boom.
• exp.com /defunct? Domain owned by EXP Systems
• ExpertCentral /www.expertcentral.com now redirects to allexperts.com

Shopping
• Productopia /product review site launched in late July, 1999.
On Google, Productopia's top search result is www.consumersearch.com
• Guild.com now redirects to www.guildsourcebooks.com /still in shopping
• Shopping.com /acquired by eBay

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I will update and reformat the article later on.

Deleting files with Shift+Del in Windows 95/98

Over all those years using Windows 95/98/98SE, I had issues with permanently deleting files with the Shift+Del key combination: Either I'd get the vanilla deletion dialog (after which I had to retry) or sometimes I'd hit lucky with a real permanent file deletion dialog.

This Summer I discovered that the trick was to hold the Shift key until the permanent deletion dialog appeared, which then seemed to solve my problem with all this.