CONFIGURING SEAMONKEY
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Changing The Default Address Bar Search Engine
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By default, Seamonkey ships with Google as its default address bar
search engine. Most users will not care. I am not most users though, I
prefer to pick my own search engine, and being the friendly fellow I am,
I shall tell you how to do it as well.
Start by finding your Seamonkey install directory. Under the greprefs
directory you should find the file all.js; open this file and locate the
line:
pref("keyword.URL", "
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=");
Simply modify the URL portion so it points to the search engine of your
choice. For instance, I use Ixquick, thus the line reads as:
pref("keyword.URL", "
https://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=");
Save the changes, exit, and start (or restart) Seamonkey.
Installing 'Broken' Plugins
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Every so often, when Seamonkey updates, a plugin or two will break due to
their maximum supported version number being below Seamonkey's new
version number. This is easy to fix.
If the plugins were already installed, and have simply been disabled, go
to your Seamonkey profile directory which is probably:
~/.mozilla/seamonkey/<string>.default/extensions
Using midnight commander (with unzip installed) open the *.xpi folder
corresponding to the plugin and edit the maxVersion entry in install.rdf
that corresponds to Seamonkey so the number is equal to, or greater than
Seamonkey's version number. There is a catch to this method: many of the
*.xpi files do not have human readable names, and are instead random
strings of characters. So if you have numerous plugins, it could take a
little bit of searching before you find the plugin(s) that need updating.
If the plugin has not been installed, download it, and navigate to its
install.rdf file using midnight commander, and edit the maxVersion number
corresponding to Seamonkey. Next, open Seamonkey and navigate to the
plugin's location, click on it, and install it.
Restart Seamonkey.
