Mozilla Suite to Seamonkey transition?

Steven Pasternak stevenp500 at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 19 23:11:51 UTC 2006


Jim Cornette wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me how seemless the Mozilla Suite to Seamonkey
>> transition is (in FC5 if that makes a difference). I have been using
>> Mozilla Suite for years now, but the crashes are becoming annoying. I
>> have numerous bookmarks, history, email, and a theme that I want from
>> the suite. Is it jsut as simple as yum install seamonkey?
>
> Seamonkey keeps the same profiles for mail, bookmarks as does mozilla. 
> Both programs can be installed at the same time. You cannot run both 
> at the same time though.
>
> You need to keep mozilla around for programs like yelp and openoffice 
> mailing features. Seamonkey hould work for everything else that I use 
> anyway.
>
>>
>> And what of the mplayer-plugin (which currently serves as my embedded
>> media player)
>
> I'm not sure about the embedded elements working. If it does not work 
> for seamonkey, you still have mozilla installed. You could close 
> seamonkey and then launch mozilla for those features.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Arthur
>>
>
>
I even removed the mozilla binary from /usr/bin/ and linked 
/usr/bin/seamonkey to it. Everything works now just as if I were running 
mozilla 1.8 (which is what seamonkey really is;check the about:)




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