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Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:02:16 -0700
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: SeaMonkey Problem - Solved?

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J R FOX wrote:
> Now this is really strange. I'm certain I had the
> Innotek V7 installed for each eCS profile -- or is it
> installed for *SM itself*, and just applies to all
> profiles ? -- and I was accustomed to seeing it listed
> in About:Plugins.

If you are using this - or equivalent - one set of profiles and plugins
control all installations of MOZ\SM\FF\TB
SET MOZILLA_HOME=X:\MOZPROFILES
SET MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=X:\MOZPROFILES\PLUGINS

Yet when I go there now, I'm not
> seeing it listed at all. What I take to be Flash
> animations still displays at quite a few websites.
> Could it be that the Adblock or Flashblock extensions
> are hiding it or suppressing its appearance in the
> About:Plugins list ?

You do have to run Flash install in the plugins directory.

> I will also take a look under
> Mnenhy, just in case, but I had thought that
> Flashblock was simply a manual On/Off switch for
> whatever Flash content you encountered, and then you
> made decisions to accept or reject it on a
> case-by-case basis.

I have never used Flash block. My concern has been how to get it to
work, not how to stop it.
>
>
> Were you saying that there is simply some
> setting (user-adjustable) where SM reports the Flash
> version, just as UserAgent can fib for you that you
> are supposedly running Windows ?

Not "user -adjustable", hard coded, but editable.
>
> I disagree with you, if only due to the fact that
> browsing with OS/2 still eliminates virtually ALL of
> your security issues. Under OS/2, you can walk down
> the most dangerous alleys of cyberspace with no
> worries, because there are no malware, spyware, or
> backdoor nasties that any site can throw at you and
> have it stick. But you are partially right in that
> Innotek or Serenity or *someone* should elevate the
> priority of this page-media-content stuff (as was done
> in a roundabout way for PDF with Lucide, although I'm
> not aware of Lucide being plugin-able for the
> browser), before we become as browsing useless as you
> suggest.

You seem to agree that OS/2 browsers are becoming obsolete. That leaves
us with, use some other OS that has a functioning browser or "stay
home". What do you disagree with?

And your *someone* may keep our browser alive, IF, another *someone* is
willing to pay for it, AND, has access to the necessary code.

Ray

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