SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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Lemon Juice
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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A workaround is to create a context menu on links to open them in a different browser, you can do this with Open With extension. Of course, if you can live with having to right-click links in Mail...
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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I've just made a small extension that will open links from SeaMonkey Mail in a different browser so you can try it out: Standalone SeaMonkey Mail.
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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=D>

Well done the Stand alone app worked nicely for me!
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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Windows 10 does not recognise the extension.

I tried dragging the file from Windows Explorer to a Firefox browser address line and the system refused. Do I need the full path?

Chrome is my default browser.

I love SeaMonkey mail but intensely dislike the SeaMonkey browser.

Help please.

(Please treat me as a totally non-techie. My first computer was one of Babbage's spares and I'm still trying to catch up.)
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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thebigdishman wrote:Windows 10 does not recognise the extension.
Windows 10 has nothing to do with the extension.
thebigdishman wrote: I tried dragging the file from Windows Explorer to a Firefox browser address line and the system refused. Do I need the full path?
This is a SeaMonkey extension so obviously it will not install in Firefox. You have to open SeaMonkey and install it in the Add-ons Manager (under the Tools menu). Or, when you are on the extension page on the add-ons site just click "+Add to SeaMonkey" and confirm - you need to do it from the SeaMonkey browser.
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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Thank you

Installed. Mail running alone (having closed the Seamonkey browser window). I cannot see where to set the default browser to Chrome.
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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Sorry.

Please ignore silly question. It does it automatically.

Perfect than you.
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I have one final question if I may please.

I have always had problems with odd messages coming up as "... thinks this message is spam" in Thunderbird, but in Seamonkey it's suddenly rife, even from addresses in my personal address book.

Any suggestions please?
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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thebigdishman wrote:I have one final question if I may please.

I have always had problems with odd messages coming up as "... thinks this message is spam" in Thunderbird, but in Seamonkey it's suddenly rife, even from addresses in my personal address book.

Any suggestions please?
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Thank you
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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thebigdishman wrote:Thank you
You're welcome! :wink:
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Re: SeaMonkey Mail - change default browser

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Amazingly effective extension, I cannot believe it took me so long to find it. It worked immediately, didn't even require a browser restart! I started in the 90's with Netscape and Communicator and have been a fan of all the following iteration of the mozilla based suite configuration. Unfortunately, like others have mentioned, it seems that while it started mostly with just the high security type financial/banking sites, more and more seem not to work fully or at all with the browser portion. When the number of individual sites I had to switch for became too cumbersome, with some fairly significant sentimental regret, I finally just switched default browsers instead. I won't give up Sea Monkey mail though, for me it's the best I've found. Even though it's supposedly based on the same code as Thunderbird, the tweaks in appearance and usability make it preferable, and now I can finally stop right clicking saving links to another browser. THANK YOU Lemon Juice.
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