From: rowlett@access.net   
      
   On 8/23/25 9:50 PM, NFN Smith wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ has link to   
   https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/#2.53.21   
      
   >  Does Debian still have Seamonkey in its repositories?   
      
   I've used Debian since Squeeze and don't recall ever seeing it there.   
      
   >  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.   
      
   My phrasing was sloppy. In some sense I want to "write protect"{term??}    
   the results of Edit->Preferences. Haven't had opportunity to dive into    
   his comments yet.   
      
   >    
   > 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.   
      
   I haven't had opportunity to follow-up yet.   
      
   >    
   > 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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