mirror of
https://github.com/rn10950/RetroZilla.git
synced 2024-09-14 09:10:14 +02:00
276 lines
11 KiB
Plaintext
276 lines
11 KiB
Plaintext
==========================================================================
|
|
|
|
= = = = = = = = = = = = = SeaMonkey Read Me = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
|
|
|
|
==========================================================================
|
|
|
|
SeaMonkey is subject to the terms detailed in the license agreement
|
|
accompanying it.
|
|
|
|
This Read Me file contains information about system requirements and
|
|
installation instructions for the OS/2 builds of SeaMonkey.
|
|
|
|
For more info on SeaMonkey, see http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
|
|
For more info on the OS/2 port see http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2. To
|
|
submit bugs or other feedback, see the Navigator QA menu and check out
|
|
Bugzilla at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ for links to known bugs,
|
|
bug-writing guidelines, and more. You can also get help with Bugzilla by
|
|
pointing your IRC client to #mozillazine at irc.mozilla.org, OS/2 specific
|
|
problems are discussed in #warpzilla and in the newsgroup
|
|
mozilla.dev.ports.os2 on news.mozilla.org.
|
|
|
|
|
|
==========================================================================
|
|
|
|
Getting SeaMonkey
|
|
|
|
==========================================================================
|
|
|
|
You can download OS/2 nightly builds of SeaMonkey from the mozilla.org FTP
|
|
site at
|
|
|
|
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/contrib/
|
|
|
|
For the very latest builds, see
|
|
|
|
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/contrib/latest-trunk/
|
|
|
|
Keep in mind that nightly builds, which are used by mozilla.org developers
|
|
for testing, may be buggy. If you are looking for a more polished version
|
|
of SeaMonkey, the SeaMonkey project releases builds of SeaMonkey regularly
|
|
that you can download from
|
|
|
|
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
|
|
|
|
Be sure to read the SeaMonkey release notes for information on known
|
|
problems and installation issues with SeaMonkey. The release notes can be
|
|
found at the preceding URL along with the releases themselves.
|
|
|
|
Note: Please use Talkback builds whenever possible. These builds allow
|
|
transmission of crash data back to SeaMonkey and Mozilla developers,
|
|
improved crash analysis, and posting of crash information to our
|
|
crash-data newsgroup.
|
|
|
|
OS/2 releases are not created by SeaMonkey project or mozilla.org
|
|
themselves and may appear on the page http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2
|
|
before the releases page. Be sure to read the SeaMonkey release notes
|
|
linked on the releases page for information on known problems and
|
|
installation issues with SeaMonkey.
|
|
|
|
|
|
==========================================================================
|
|
|
|
System Requirements
|
|
|
|
==========================================================================
|
|
|
|
* General
|
|
|
|
If you want to view and use the "Modern" theme, your display monitor
|
|
should be set to display thousands of colors. For users who cannot set
|
|
their displays to use more than 256 colors, the SeaMonkey project
|
|
recommends using the "Classic" theme for SeaMonkey.
|
|
|
|
To select the Modern theme after you have installed SeaMonkey, from the
|
|
browser, open the View menu, then open the Apply Theme submenu and
|
|
choose Modern.
|
|
|
|
* OS/2
|
|
- This release requires updated C runtime DLLs (libc-0.5.1) from
|
|
http://www.innotek.de/products/gccos2/download/gccos2download_e.html
|
|
in order to run. By default the installation routine places them in
|
|
\OS2\DLL on your bootdrive, but you can put them in the same
|
|
directory as SeaMonkey's executable, or somewhere else in your
|
|
LIBPATH. The SeaMonkey installer will not install the C runtime DLLs
|
|
for you but requires them to run.
|
|
|
|
- Minimum hardware requirements
|
|
+ Pentium class processor
|
|
+ 64 MiB RAM plus 64 MiB free swap space
|
|
+ 35 MiB free harddisk space for installation
|
|
plus storage space for disk cache and mail
|
|
|
|
- Recommended hardware for acceptable performance
|
|
+ 500 MHz processor
|
|
+ 256 MiB RAM plus 64 MiB free swap space
|
|
NOTE: SeaMonkey's performance and stability increases the more
|
|
physical RAM is available. Especially for long browsing and IRC
|
|
sessions 512 MiB of memory is recommended.
|
|
|
|
- Software requirements
|
|
+ Installation on a file system supporting long file names
|
|
(i.e. HPFS or JFS but not FAT)
|
|
+ OS/2 Warp 4 with Fixpack 15 or later
|
|
+ MPTS version 5.3
|
|
+ TCP/IP version 4.1
|
|
+ INETVER: SOCKETS.SYS=5.3007, AFOS2.SYS=5.3001, AFINET.SYS=5.3006
|
|
NOTE: Do not attempt to use MPTS & TCP/IP versions below these
|
|
INETVER levels. Although SeaMonkey may seem to start and run
|
|
normally with older stacks, some features SeaMonkey needs are not
|
|
implemented correctly in older MPTS versions, which may result in
|
|
crashes and data loss.
|
|
|
|
+ Convenience Pack 2 or eComStation 1.0 or later meet these requirements
|
|
out of the box.
|
|
|
|
|
|
==========================================================================
|
|
|
|
Installation Instructions
|
|
|
|
==========================================================================
|
|
|
|
It is strongly recommended that you exit all programs before running the
|
|
setup program. Also, you should temporarily disable virus-detection
|
|
software.
|
|
|
|
Install into a clean (new) directory. Installing on top of previously
|
|
released builds may cause problems.
|
|
|
|
Note: These instructions do not tell you how to build SeaMonkey.
|
|
For info on building SeaMonkey from the mozilla.org source code, see
|
|
|
|
http://www.mozilla.org/build/
|
|
|
|
|
|
OS/2 Installation Instructions
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
To install SeaMonkey by downloading the SeaMonkey installer, follow
|
|
these steps:
|
|
|
|
1. Click the "Installer" link on the site you're downloading SeaMonkey
|
|
from to download the installer file to your machine. This file is
|
|
typically called seamonkey-x.xx.en-US.os2.installer.exe where the
|
|
"x.xx" is replaced by the SeaMonkey version.
|
|
|
|
2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file, make sure that the C
|
|
library DLLs are copied to the same directory or installed in the
|
|
LIBPATH, and double-click on the the SeaMonkey installer object to
|
|
start the Setup program.
|
|
|
|
3. Follow the on-screen instructions in the setup program. The program
|
|
automatically ends any running SeaMonkey sessions and creates a
|
|
SeaMonkey folder on the Desktop. To start SeaMonkey the first time,
|
|
again make sure that the C library DLLs are copied to the
|
|
installation directory or installed in the LIBPATH and then
|
|
double-click the SeaMonkey program object inside this folder.
|
|
|
|
To install SeaMonkey by downloading the .zip file and installing
|
|
manually, follow these steps:
|
|
|
|
1. Click the "Zip" link on the site you're downloading SeaMonkey from
|
|
to download the ZIP package to your machine. This file is typically
|
|
called seamonkey-x.xx.en-US.os2-emx-i386.zip where the "x.xx" is
|
|
replaced by the SeaMonkey version.
|
|
|
|
2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file and unpack it using your
|
|
favorite unzip tool.
|
|
|
|
3. Keep in mind that the unzip process creates a directory "seamonkey"
|
|
below the location you point it to, i.e.
|
|
unzip mozilla-os2-1.7.5.zip -d c:\seamonkey-1.7.5
|
|
will unpack SeaMonkey into c:\seamonkey-1.7.5\seamonkey.
|
|
|
|
4. Make sure that you are _not_ unpacking over an old installation.
|
|
This is known to cause problems.
|
|
|
|
5. To start SeaMonkey, navigate to the directory you extracted
|
|
SeaMonkey to, make sure that the C library DLLs are copied to the
|
|
installation directory or installed in the LIBPATH, and then
|
|
double-click the seamonkey.exe object.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Running multiple versions of SeaMonkey concurrently
|
|
-------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Because various members of the Mozilla family (i.e. SeaMonkey, Mozilla,
|
|
Firefox, Thunderbird, IBM Web Browser) may use different, incompatible
|
|
versions of the same DLL, some extra steps may be required to run them
|
|
concurrently.
|
|
|
|
One workaround is the LIBPATHSTRICT variable. To run Mozilla-based
|
|
applications one can create a CMD script like the following example
|
|
(where an installation of SeaMonkey exists in the directory
|
|
d:\internet\seamonkey is assumed):
|
|
|
|
set LIBPATHSTRICT=T
|
|
rem The next line may be needed when a different Mozilla program is listed in LIBPATH
|
|
rem set BEGINLIBPATH=d:\internet\seamonkey
|
|
rem The next line is only needed to run two versions of the same program
|
|
rem set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
|
|
d:
|
|
cd d:\internet\seamonkey
|
|
seamonkey.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
|
|
|
|
Similarly, one can create a program object to start SeaMonkey using the
|
|
following settings:
|
|
|
|
Path and file name: *
|
|
Parameters: /c set LIBPATHSTRICT=T & .\seamonkey.exe "%*"
|
|
Working directory: d:\internet\seamonkey
|
|
|
|
(One might need to add MOZ_NO_REMOTE and/or BEGINLIBPATH as in the CMD
|
|
script above depending on the system configuration.)
|
|
|
|
Finally, the simplest method is to use the Run! utility by Rich Walsh that
|
|
can be found in the Hobbes Software Archive:
|
|
|
|
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=Run!
|
|
|
|
Read its documentation for more information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Separating profiles from installation directory
|
|
-----------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
To separate the locations of the user profile(s) (containing the bookmarks
|
|
and all customizations) from the installation directory to keep your
|
|
preferences in the case of an update even when using ZIP packages, set the
|
|
variable MOZILLA_HOME to a directory of your choice. You can do this
|
|
either in Config.sys or in a script or using a program object as listed
|
|
above. If you add
|
|
|
|
set MOZILLA_HOME=f:\Data
|
|
|
|
the user profile(s) will be created in "f:\Data\Mozilla\Profiles".
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other important environment variables
|
|
-------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
There are a few enviroment variables that can be used to control special
|
|
behavior of SeaMonkey on OS/2:
|
|
|
|
- set NSPR_OS2_NO_HIRES_TIMER=1
|
|
This causes SeaMonkey not to use OS/2's high resolution timer. Set this
|
|
if other applications using the high resolution timer (multimedia apps)
|
|
act strangely.
|
|
|
|
- set MOZILLA_USE_EXTENDED_FT2LIB=T
|
|
If you have the Innotek Font Engine installed this variable enables
|
|
special functions in SeaMonkey to handle unicode characters.
|
|
|
|
- set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
|
|
Use this to run two instances of SeaMonkey simultaneously (e.g. debug
|
|
and optimized version).
|
|
|
|
Find more information on this topic and other tips on
|
|
http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html
|
|
|
|
|
|
Known Problems of the OS/2 version
|
|
----------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Cross-platform problems are usually listed in the release notes of each
|
|
milestone release.
|
|
|
|
- Bug 167884, "100% CPU load when viewing site [tiling transparent PNG]":
|
|
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167884
|
|
On OS/2, SeaMonkey is known to have very slow performance on websites that
|
|
use small, repeated images with transparency for their layout.
|
|
|
|
Other known problems can be found by following the link "Current Open
|
|
Warpzilla Bugs" on the OS/2 Mozilla page
|
|
<http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/>.
|