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   Nuno Silva to Richard Owlett   
   Re: Solved? Probally ;} was [Re: Browser   
   24 Jul 25 22:36:42   
   
   From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2025-07-24, Richard Owlett wrote:   
      
   > On 7/24/25 12:00 PM, Dirk Fieldhouse wrote:   
   >> On 24/07/2025 16:04, Richard Owlett wrote:   
   >>> On 7/24/25 9:22 AM, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-07-24, Richard Owlett wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Request patience - I'm an octogenarian operating on little sleep who   
   >>>>> suspects he's missing something obvious ;/ TIA   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I'm using SeaMonkey 2.53.20 on Debian 12.8 .   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> On menu bar I selected   
   >>>>>     File->New->Browser Window   
   >>>>>     Go->History   
   >>>>> all selected elements would display *EXCEPT* "Name".   
   >>>>> [Though greyed out it did have a check mark.]   
   >>>> ...   
   >>   
   >> I reproduced s/t like this (possibly "something obvious") by resizing   
   >> Name as narrow as possible so that no Names were visible but only a   
   >> narrow empty column on the left.   
   >   
   > Probable explanation.   
   > Although not my intention, I had probably accomplished that by   
   > manipulations with other goals over the previous couple of weeks.   
   >   
   > Thanks   
      
   Yeah, I could reproduce what Dirk is describing;   
      
   It can also happen with window size changes, if it's either opened with   
   a smaller size than it had when it was closed, or downsized while open,   
   provided the width of the columns is set in a way that makes it happen.   
      
   >   
   >> When other columns were disabled in the   
   >> top-right column widget, Names re-appeared, and then disappeared as the   
   >> original columns were restored. At any point there was still a column   
   >> divider between Name and the next column that could be used to resize Name.   
   >>   
   >> Maybe some more profound cause, eg corruption of the column data in   
   >> xulstore.json, could cause the Name column to vanish entirely.   
   >>   
   >> /df   
   >>   
   >   
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