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Re: Can't install ublock origin

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Jo-Anne wrote:
> On 4/19/2025 5:55 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
> 
>> Obviously, I prefer SeaMonkey over Firefox for many reasons.  I use
>> Firefox only for those Web sites that deviate so much from the W3C
>> specifications for HTML and CSS that SeaMonkey cannot render them.
>>
> 
> Thinking about installing SeaMonkey. I've noticed that it's a suite that 
> includes an email client. Have you tried its email? And if so, do you 
> prefer Thunderbird?
> 

I use Seamonkey for both mail and browser, and I prefer the mail client 
over Thunderbird.  The browser is getting more difficult to use on a lot 
of sites.  Part of that is newer pages that tend to be developed for 
Chrome and use scripting that Seamonkey doesn't support.  Plus, working 
through my own settings, where I make aggressive use of NoScript and 
uBlock Origin.

The one caution on Seamonkey would be what you might want to do on 
extensions. The core of Seamonkey is mail client and browser based on 
Gecko 2.56, meaning that it still uses the old XUL structure, and 
doesn't support the newer WebExtensions or MailExtensions.

You still get many extensions for Seamonkey via 
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/ Several more can only be 
found through the Classic Addons Archive (which tried to collect nearly 
everything XUL).  I've found that several are now to the point where 
they need small tweaks several tweaks.  uBlock Origin does work, but 
it's no longer maintained, and the last XUL version of that (1.16.4.30) 
is available from the developer's web site at 
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy

Unfortunately, there are a few extensions that are no longer available. 
To me, the most prominent one is OpenWith, one that allows you to 
right-click a link, a tab or an address, and choose which browser you 
want.  That was originally done as a Thunderbird extension, but works 
well in Seamonkey.  To me, that's really useful when I find a page in 
Seamonkey that doesn't render correctly, and that makes it easy to 
re-open the link in another browser (usually Firefox, but not always).

Smith

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Can't install ublock origin jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2025-04-18 11:47 -0500
  Re: Can't install ublock origin Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-04-18 19:08 +0200
    Re: Can't install ublock origin "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-04-19 07:39 +0200
      Re: Can't install ublock origin jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2025-04-19 11:41 -0500
        Re: Can't install ublock origin "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2025-04-19 20:34 +0200
  Re: Can't install ublock origin Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-04-18 13:35 -0500
    Re: Can't install ublock origin jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2025-04-19 12:03 -0500
      Re: Can't install ublock origin Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-04-19 16:24 -0500
        Re: Can't install ublock origin jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2025-04-20 09:52 -0500
  Re: Can't install ublock origin Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-18 14:40 -0400
    Re: Can't install ublock origin Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-04-18 22:54 +0200
  Re: Can't install ublock origin "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-04-19 14:25 -0700
    Re: Can't install ublock origin "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-04-19 15:55 -0700
      Re: Can't install ublock origin jetjock <jetjock@unkown.com> - 2025-04-20 10:10 -0500
      Re: Can't install ublock origin Jo-Anne <Jo-Anne@nowhere.com> - 2025-04-21 11:53 -0500
        Re: Can't install ublock origin "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-04-21 11:16 -0700
          Re: Can't install ublock origin Jo-Anne <Jo-Anne@nowhere.com> - 2025-04-21 13:17 -0500
          Re: Can't install ublock origin Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 00:09 +0000
        Re: Can't install ublock origin NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2025-04-22 07:50 -0700

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