I am tempted to try Seamonkey, and was wondering if anyone else has moved their plugins from firefox/thunderbird into the Seamonkey plugins directory and was successful?
Is is hard to migrate? How similar were your experiences, since like how Thunderbird, you can have an add-on that lets you open browsers in thunderbird.
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June 16, 2011 - 7:05pm
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seamonkey testing add-ons
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I allowed the updates feature to upgrade my Seamonkey version to 2.1 (from 2.0.14) last night.
I was a bit shocked to find that six (out of nine or ten) of the extensions I use were flagged as incompatible. Most of them I can live without (even if the authors don't produce updated versions) but the clincher is Greasemonkey, which I regard as essential.
I did some research to see if a compatible version of Greasemonkey is planned, but I couldn't find anything definitive - just speculation. There is, apparently, an alternative called "Scriptish" - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/scriptish/ - but this shows as not compatible with 2.0.14 or 2.1.
So, to answer your question (which I realise I've hijacked a bit), with 2.0.14 most of the popular extensions you'd expect to find for, say, Firefox were also available for Seamonkey - either as specific Seamonkey extensions or as Firefox extensions which are also compatible with Seamonkey.
If my experience is typical, a lot of those extensions will now be reporting incompatibility with 2.1 - in some cases because they need to be modified, in others simply because the manifest needs updating. I guess it's too early yet to say how many will become compatible.
Seamonkey is a good browser - I like it - but I'd suggest that it's not a good time to migrate. Wait a while and see how good the support is by extension authors in general.
Regads
Nick
The engine was updated ala Firefox 4.0, though SeaMonkey saw none of the same UI redesign. As such, extensions needed to be updated. But, as SeaMonkey is a second-class citizen in terms of extensions and plugins to Firefox, several extensions were not updated.
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OK, I've done some more research and testing so here's some information that might be useful to others and save a bit of time.
Add-on Compatibility Reporter 0.8.5 is compatible with Seamonkey 4.1. This allows you to turn off compatibility checking of addons and so install and enable addons that are flagged as not compatible with 4.1. Now obviously the usual caveats apply: some of them actually AREN'T compatible and may do weird stuff (crashing your browser, cursing your cattle, selling your children into slavery, etc) but others work perfectly well. You can also use this addon to report compatibility (or not) back to the addon authors.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/add-on-compatibility-re...
Having installed this and turned off compatibility checking, you then have to restart Seamonkey a couple of times to enable the previously disabled addons in your list.
I found that IE Tab + (FF 3.6+) 2.02.20110525 which had been flagged as incompatible actually seems to work fine.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/ie-tab-plus-self-hosted...
You can then also download and install other addons which are flagged as incompatible. I tried a couple of versions of Greasemonkey but didn't find one that worked so instead I turned my attention to Scriptish (0.1) which is an alternative. So far so good with this - I've installed four scripts and they all seem to be working OK.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/scriptish/
Hope this helps
Nick