From: worldoff9908@gmail.com   
      
   Richard Owlett wrote:   
   > I currently use SeaMonkey 2.53.20 on Debian 12.8 and am preparing to do   
   > long overdue housekeeping in preparation to updating  all installed   
   > software - starting with SeaMonkey.   
      
   A side question -- where do you intend to get your builds from?  Does   
   Debian still have Seamonkey in its repositories?  I know that Ubuntu   
   dropped Seamonkey several years ago, but I found the Ubuntuzilla PPA   
   repository, where I can get Seamonkey, as well as Firefox and   
   Thunderbird, and it looks like the PPA structure works under Debian, as   
   well. I use ubuntuzilla on my Mint installation.   
      
   I've found Ubuntuzilla to be reliable, and never seen any issues with   
   it, and they seem to have distributions within a day of new Seamonkey   
   builds being released.   
      
   >   
   > I came to SeaMonkey via progression from Netscape Navigator - perhaps   
   > with habits from using RBBS on CPM-80.   
   >   
   > I have a series of Profile Manager questions.   
   >   
   > 1. Is there any way to make a specific profile "read-only"?   
      
   You can, but as Shugo noted, you may not want to.   
      
   In Linux, the location of your profile is   
   $HOME/.mozilla/seamonkey/profiles. From a command prompt, use cd to go   
   to the appropriate profile folder. I don't remember the exact syntax   
   without playing with it, but you'll want something like:   
      
       find . -exec chmod -w {} \;   
      
   That would turn off write permission for all files for owner and group.   
   But it would make the profile entirely unusable.   
      
   Instead, I would go the route of simply backing up your data by copying   
   the .mozilla/seamonkey folder to another location, such as your   
   Downloads folder.  If you're using a GUI file browser, even if the   
   folder is hidden, entering the relative path (e.g., .mozilla/seamonkey)   
   will be visible.   
      
   > 2. Is there a way to duplicate the currently active profile?   
      
      
   Just a matter of copying.   
      
   If you want an exact duplicate, you can copy profile's folder to another   
   folder in the Profiles folder. Although if you create a profile through   
   the Profile Manager, the normal naming scheme is a string of 8 random   
   characters followed by a dot and the name, e.g., "Default Profile", but   
   the name doesn't really matter.  Thus, it's not a problem to copy that   
   folder to something like "Copied Profile", without any random characters.   
      
    From there, you would go into the profiles.ini file, and add a section   
   for a new profile that includes the relative path of the copied profile.   
      
   In my own profiles.ini file, I have a section that looks like:   
      
   	[Profile2]   
   	Name=Test Profile   
   	IsRelative=1   
   	Path=Profiles/1xoksuf0.Test Profile   
      
   If you're playing with profiles, then one thing to do is to make the   
   sure that in the [General] section at the top of the file, the setting   
   for StartWithLastProfile is set to 0 (rather than the default 1).  That   
   way, when you start Seamonkey, you can choose which profile you want.   
      
      
   > 3. In preparing to renaming a profile, is there a way to list only the   
   >     items which differ from SeaMonkey's default profile?   
      
   At this level, I don't think it's necessary.  Reading the profiles.ini   
   file should give sufficient prompts for what you want.   
      
   You can get a little more detail at   
   https://kb.mozillazine.org/Profiles.ini_file, and this one applies not   
   just to Seamonkey, but Firefox and Thunderbird, as well.   
      
   Smith   
      
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