For more information see http://xprint.mozdev.org for a thorough and very detailed guide and Mozilla.org's Xprint project pages.
In Profile Manager, if you rename a profile to a name you previously used, all your preferences may be lost. Workaround: If you rename a profile, use a unique name. (Bug 113203)
If problems occur during installation and your Communicator profile was not
copied and converted, you can still use your profile. Launch SeaMonkey from
the command line, adding the "-installer
" option (that
is, type "seamonkey.exe -installer
" on the command
line), or reinstall SeaMonkey to see the profile manager dialog again.
SeaMonkey only accepts hostnames for manual proxies. If you migrate a Communicator 4 profile, you will need to change the settings manually. Communicator 4 allowed URL's in manual configuration, but SeaMonkey does not. If you migrate a profile configured this way, you will need to change the URL to a hostname and port number. (Bug 30387)
Fedora Core 5 users using SELinux in enforcing mode will experience security permissions problems when using the GTK1 build. Use the GTK2 build instead (recommended), or see this page for more information.
No feedback is provided while restoring a certificate to a smart card, which can take a long time since smart cards are relatively slow devices. As a result, it may appear that the restoration is not happening. (Bug 52321)
For security reasons, SeaMonkey does not allow connections to certain ports.
To override this on a per-port basis, add a comma separated list of ports to
defaults/all.js
(in your SeaMonkey installation directory). Note
that this pref only works in the all.js
file in the SeaMonkey
installation directory and it affects all users of the installation. It does
not work if you add it to the prefs.js
or user.js
files in your personal
profile directory.
For example, to unblock ports 1, 3, and 7, use the following line:
pref("network.security.ports.banned.override", "1,3,7");
For security reasons, SeaMonkey does not allow web content to link to local files. An error like: Security Error: Content at url may not load or link to file:///something will appear in the javascript console. If you need to follow links to local paths it is recommended that you drag the link to the location bar and then drop it on the webpage. If you really don't like the security check and are willing to risk a site having access to all files on your system and that your system can access then you may add the site's name to a policy (say one called "policyname") as described in the CAPS documentation and set the "capability.policy.policyname.checkloaduri.enabled" preference to "allAccess".
On Windows, some software firewalls may block SeaMonkey from properly accessing the Internet. If SeaMonkey is not working properly, check that your firewall settings allows SeaMonkey to connect to the net. If your receive a warning from ZoneAlarm that SeaMonkey attempts to set itself up as a local server, it is due to SeaMonkey communicating with Personal Security Manager (PSM) which is required to access secure Web and mail servers, and you should allow SeaMonkey access.
Performing a search with Google may cause the sidebar to be displayed. To prevent this, make sure "Open the Search tab in the Sidebar when search results are avaliable" checkbox (Edit->Preferences, Navigator->Internet Search) is unchecked. (Bug 252802)
Pages that appear to be rendered incorrectly may be due to standards compliance issues. See the Web Standards page on Mozilla Developer Center and Mozilla Evangelism site for more details.
Using Windows 98 with some ATI graphics adapters will result in occasional corruption of inline images as rendered on web pages. This is an ATI graphics driver bug. (Bug 104992)
While enabling HTTP pipelining may significantly improve page load times, it can prevent some websites from loading correctly. If you experience problems loading a website, please verify that HTTP pipelining is disabled and try again (see Preferences->Advanced->HTTP Networking). HTTP pipelining is disabled by default.
If the user is downloading a file in the background and the user exits from the File menu, the download will abort without warning. Workaround: Only exit after downloads finish. (Bug 28385)
On Macintosh, the horizontal scrollbar in the View Source window might be missing. Resize the window to see the scrollbar. (Bug 56488)
The Forward, Reply, Reply All, and Reply to Folder buttons may not work. This happens if you have some form of popup blocking enabled. A telltale sign of this is a small explosion icon in the statusbar. An easy way to fix this is to select Tools->Popup Manager->Allow Popups From This Site. (Bug 102476)
Attempting to compose, forward, or reply to a message may result in a non-functional compose window. To work around it, open a new compose window, close the new window, and then close non-functional one. If you try again, it will work. (Bug 307672 )
Moving or copying a labeled message will not retain label in destination when filing across accounts:
In the Mail/News Account Settings: Server Settings dialog box, any changes you make to local directory settings won't take effect until you exit and restart SeaMonkey (Bug 2654)
On Linux you may encounter problems if you install SeaMonkey in a root user environment then run as another user. Problems include saving to Sent folder, Drafts, Templates or general authentication problems. (Bug 49397)
The Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings dialog box does not display correctly at lower monitor resolutions such as 800 by 600 or 640 by 480. If possible, increase your monitor's display resolution above 800 by 600. (Bug 82122)
SeaMonkey does not integrate with AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail, as Netscape 6/7 do. If you share your Netscape 6/7 profile with SeaMonkey, you may be able to see headers for messages in the account's Inbox if you have previously checked one of these accounts in Netscape 6/7, but you will be unable to interact with the messages. To access your AOL Mail, WebMail, or Netscape Instant Messenger, you need to use Netscape 6/7.
Attaching RTF files to emails may result in them being sent such that most readers will not be able to read them. If you plan to send RTF attachments, you should go to Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Helper Applications, select "New Type", and enter:
MIME Type: application/rtf Description: Rich Text Document Extension: rtf
and then select OK to close the dialogs.
SeaMonkey does not import Communicator 4.x addressbooks. (Bug 35509)
To import Outlook address books, you must have the default mail client set to "Microsoft Outlook" in Microsoft Internet Explorer. (Bug 90206)
You must exit and restart SeaMonkey to see the effect of a change to the option "show only subscribed IMAP mail folders". To access this option: choose the Advanced button in the Server section of the Account Settings dialog box. (Bug 38943)
The Subscribe dialog box may not work with news servers that require authentication. If you open a password-protected newsgroup you may be prompted more than once for the user name and password combination.
Setting a LDAP server to use for autocomplete may not work correctly - a work around for this is to set it for each account individually (Bug 317566).
LDAP directories with ldif extensions may appear after migration from Communicator 4.x. (Bug 94645)
SeaMonkey may temporarily hang during LDAP autocomplete if network connectivity is broken. Specifically, if the LDAP server in question is unreachable (network connectivity problems, including taking a laptop outside a firewall), the entire app will hang when attempting to contact that server. The app will begin responding again after about 10 seconds (the length of the TCP timeout). (Bug 79509)
Moving/Copying a downloaded message (while offline) will result in not being able to read the message at the new folder while you are offline. Workaround: Go online to read it, then re-download the message to have it accessible when you are offline. (Bug 78809)
When starting SeaMonkey, if you only have one profile, both of the Offline preferences for startup mode ("Ask me if I want online or offline mode", or "Use my previous online/offline state") do not work. SeaMonkey will always start in online mode. To go offline, from the File menu, choose Work Offline. (Bug 82487)
Pasting text at the beginning of a line does not work (Bug 299343)
When Publishing in Composer, if the Publishing URL, file name, username, or password contain any special characters (such as "@") that need to be escaped, then Composer creates a duplicate site entry each time you publish the document. To work around this bug, choose the original site name from the Site Name list in the Publish dialog box before publishing the document again. For example, some ISP users have usernames that are also their email addresses, e.g., "janedoe@ispname.net". After publishing to this site, the next time you use the Publish dialog, the username from the document URL will appear as "janedoe%40ispname.net" (the "@" was escaped during publishing). Since Composer can't find this entry, it creates a duplicate site name. (Bug 141819)
You may not be able to simultaneously edit a document using both Composer and another editor. (Bug 27820)
Certain pages (such as ones that set frames) can't be edited. However, you are still able to choose the Edit Page option in the File menu for such pages. An editor window opens, but you are unable to edit the page.
Edit->Paste As function does not exist yet. (Bugs 73286, 41547)
You can not print HTML Source. (Bug 82239)
Some shortcut keys do not function properly. (Bug list)
Hourglass does not show when application is busy. (Bug 83300)
Some element icons do not render in Show All Tags mode. (Bug 88036)
List editing can cause nested lists to outdent to next level list. (Bug 98547)
Once you've floated all the views out of the main window, no drop targets remain to bring them back. If you have "Save Default Layout On Exit" checked, and you exit, you will appear to be stuck like this. (Bug 151785)
As a workaround, show the Interactive Session from the Show->View/Hide menu, and type "/restore-layout factory".