wyatt8740 nsISessionStore.idl was not changed. Do you use Session Manager 0.8.1.14? Earlier version are broken as indicated in the release notes.

frg_away yes i'm on 0.8.1.14

wyatt8740 Do you see an error in the console?

yes, I'll have to pull it back up

Off the top of my head it was some "illegal value" sort of error but I'll get the specific message

actally first let me make sure it still does it on a new profile

should have done this first

lol it does work. so my profile was busted.

i should have known, since I was trying to copy a profile from a Unix machine to a windows one

frg_away: sorry for wasting time :P

I thought i'd fixed all the paths but i probably should have just started fresh

wyatt8740 well when I backport I try to omit the bad ones but need to take some I am not so sure sometimes becuase other it would block the "world".

^otherwise it would

yeah :p

i did forget the very first rule of mozilla though, test on a fresh profile

wyatt8740 problem with usix vs. Windows is forward/backward slashes. Transfered a Windows profile a while ago to Linux and content prefs, some user.js and also other stuff needed to go or be changed.

ah, i thought windows would translate forward/backslashes the same way?

was pretty sure that was part of the api

i can do a sed on prefs.js then and maybe get it going

(I already did the drive letter stuff)

Check to error console during start. The usual suspects are the same for Windows and Linux (tabtracker and some devtools stuff mostly). If you see different error something is not right. sessionstore.json probably needs to be removed as does content.sqlite,

ah, the sqlite db's.

yeah I already had done the sessionstore.json

content-prefs.sqlite?

wyatt8740 yes stores download paths mostly.

Yes the movie Idiocracy comes to life! theregister.com/2021/09/09/emoji_healthcare

Unable to read VR Path Registry from (a non-existant directory)

only message in the console if by console you meant seamonkey --console

otherwise, if you mean the JS one there's several i'll dig through

Hope it contains electrolytes too!

free range electrolytes

wyatt8740 error console. The same I think.

ctrl alt j one

--console makes stdout print to a visible window on windows, since they have all the WinMain() shenanigans

this reminds me that I eventually will have to move my email setup off that ol' 2.49.5 XP/Debian 8 setup

ahh i have one of those too

a dell latitude d610

can't even remember how I did to share my email boxes betwen Linux and Windows on SeaMonkey

mine is a HP Compaq nx9010

been using that setup since 2015 or so

prior to it, it was Thunderbird since circa 2006 or so, so basically the same thing

is that a pentium M system?

Not that I use Windows these days on my daily drivers, mind you

nope

full blown Mobile Pentium 4 furnace

hahaha

Yeah I only have one win32 machine that I have used in the last year

the Pentium Ms were the nx9020, IIRC

ah

In any case, even if I decide to not do the shared Win/Lin email setup, at the very least I'll want my mailboxes on a separate partition

as I tend to have more free space anywhere but the main OS partitions

heh, i can understand that

my thinkpad (x201) is permanently docked so I can use a secondary HDD for more storage space

(can't even remember when it was the last time I ran SeaMonkey under my Windows 7 setups)

I think my last time was 2016

in my case it would be sometime around late '19 or early '20

tomman I can. SeaMonkey Mail is running in parallel in a 7 pro vm :)

ah, early covid

I can't even remember how I setup those custom mailbox paths

I installed 7 on this spare laptop a day or two ago just to run some stupid IE-based program that wasn't rendering right in a VM

tomman: cygpath?

what I can remember is that I got almost all what I needed from MozillaZine's wiki

and that was mainly a repeat of what I did with Thunderbird in 2006 or so

hmm, error opening input stream (invalid filename?): chrome://global/content/nsUserSettings.js

in a charset switcher addon i didn't rememer having

cleanup time

locale stuff changed a lot. Might even be broken in both os.

haha

likely.

my little custom built addon that toggles the about:config default encoding pref still works though

unicode in windows is why I have a phobia for winapi

preference parsing error (line 26) = non-matching string

well prefs.js line 26 doesn't look suspicious

and there's no link to the file in question 'cause it's just a message rather than a warning for some reason

couldn't be because I symlinked the appdata mozilla dir to %USERPROFILE%\.mozilla, could it?

There are known problems with moving profiles out of the default location but mostly on network drives. I can't tell but this stuff is a bit brittle.

window.gbrowser.ownerdocument.watch is not a function

illegal value 'illegal value' when calling method: [nsISessionStore::getClosedTabCount]

ok i deleted the boostrapped extensions pref and that first one went away

the second one remains

XPIProvider.jsm -> (path to session manager addon xpi)/bootstrap.js

and browserWindowOverlay.js::updateUndoButton

and typeError: this.previewFromTab(...) is undefined

but i think that last one is spurious

frg_away: ok i managed to run the getClosedTabCount() thing in the browser toolbox

exception: not enough arguments

so then i just start guessing what args are based on the addon i guess

ok, so getClosedTabCount(window) yields:

illegal value. :p

and it's a native code function so good luck

oh hey bugzilla.mozilla.org/1466911

watch implementation is gone for at least 2 releases I think. getClosedTabCount arguments didn't change since Bug 597637 looking at comm-central.

Patch for Bug 1466911 is in already.

well, it's a similar issue to what i have

only i have no history/sessionstore

this manifests as the list of tabs being empty when i go to save my session

maybe i'll transplant some files from my fresh profile

wyatt8740 I only know that the SeaMonkey sessionstore code needs to be scrapped and rebuild from the Firefox one. Need to find some time to start but think to do this for 2 or 3 years now. blarg...

ugh, if I was confident in my knowledge of this code base i'd probably try to help with it, but I lack quite a bit of confidence

wyatt8740 If you think I am an expert guess again :)

yeah i get the idea that no one really knows this codebase, even mozilla

or they might not be in such a hurry to scrap everything

wyatt8740 it would be fine if they replace it with something readable but scrapping obscure code and replacing it with more obsure code will bite them. And the rust stuff is designed for people which never need to serach for possible error or trying to understand the program flow in production systems.

yeah. That's how i feel about it

it's easier to look at than V8's sources though

not saying much

i'm just gonna install most of my old addons in this new profile and start doing my usual user.js dance

ahh, i have earlyblue back

feels good

need sleep. almost 5am here. Have fun

ugh i need that too. cya

22:49 here

yeah here too

but still i woke up at 5 am

also good on you using 24hr time

somewhat random thought: i noticed that modern firefox is doing color correction wrong

like, icc v4 profiles. seamonkey's still got it right but I wonder when that changed

if in doubt, blame Apple

it works most of the times

agreed

anyway, huh, so i installed a bunch of addons in my new profile and now it's exhibiting the same behaviour as the old

wonder if i have a race condition

god damn

so my _theme_ was doing it

EarlyBlue

no idea how, though...

ah it happens with "modern" as well

so I think i found a bug.

i need to sleep, so I'll just dump a copy-pasted error log here. pastebin.com/raw/nPHKXfV9

i get the same thing with the modern theme and earlyblue, but the default theme works

I spoke too soon.

I can sometimes make it work. clicking "save session" sometimes the tabs will enumerate and someitmes i will get that error

so it's some race condition i think

sorry about all the noise, just ignore me until i sleep and can think properly, because now it's working again. myserious.

error is still logged though

does anybody here using the latest WG9s build of 2.53.10b1pre notice something wrong about the Close tabs to the right function, or is it just me? It's not closing all tabs to the right, just one tab.

"Close other tabs" doesn't work properly too it seems

pandakekok9: I will have a look

thanks IanN

pandakekok9: do you get any errors in the console?

pandakekok9: what add-ons do you have installed?

I get this

Error: TypeError: deadBrowser.parentNode.destroy is not a function

Source File: chrome://navigator/content/tabbrowser.xml

Line: 2170

Add-ons doesn't seem to be culprit, as I tested in a fresh profile

pandakekok9: ah, I see the issue, I only be testing with 3 tabs, I will try more tabs

the last build from 20210910 didn't exhibit this issue if my memory doesn't fail

pandakekok9: I know what the issue is, some changes were made to fix datetime picker popup location

ah, the calendar from the <input type="date"> issue, I see

pandakekok9: yep, i think I have found the locations but I'll do some more testing and double check

*code locations causing the issue

pandakekok9: should be fixed in the next nightly

thanks IanN

frg_Away: IanN_Away ( WG9s is offline now AFAICT ) To Whom It May Concern: SeaMonkey 2.53.10b1pre dated 2021-09-11 21:00 does not display Wikipedia images for me (-09-10 does).

tonymec|away works here but version has an additional tabbrowser patch. Maybe try the next one. The lastest version has a patch for image display on some sites but ths is actually a regression fix for 2.53.9. Broken since 07/20.

@ frg_Away : I try every build as soon as I see it and I keep the 4 latest .tar.bz2. This time I went back 1 day for the above reason. When I see the next build I'll try it.

tonymec|away there is a chance that the new builds break some extensions. We needed to do a change to tabbrowser.xml for date input fields. This also broke some internal sutff but IanN fixed it for today. So best to check the next one later today.

tonymec|away: wikipedia also works here

IanN_Away: with the -09-11 build I could get the pages but not the pictures. With -09-10 I get everything. If it makes any difference I use the Cologne Blue WP skin.

tonymec|away: there were issues with -09-11 build, so hopefully -09-12 will be back to usual

IanN_Away: I'll check it when it comes around.