SeaMonkey: empty bottom error console after installing certain extensions

[Joe1962]

Some extensions cause an empty error console to appear at the bottom of the SeaMonkey window. In my case, I install them all as root, so I can get them in the app directory, not in the profile. I much prefer uninstalling/reinstalling the package than fixing a broken profile, or starting a new one. I recently identified what the issue was, simply bad permissions on the extension .jar file. Examples of extensions that cause this are crash handler, session manager and undo close tabs. The fix is to find the file and chmod 644. They are normally in /opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/chrome, but undo close tabs was in /opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/defaults/pref.

I was scratching my head for a long time and compiling lists of linux-incompatible extensions until I figured this out, so I hope this helps someone...



EDIT: Obviously, the 1.1.12 in the paths would change to reflect the version of SeaMonkey you have installed.

[Joe1962]

An update on this issue:

- crash recovery:
/opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/chrome/crashrecovery.jar (must be chmoded to 644)
/opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/components/crashrecovery.js (must be chmoded to 755)
/opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/components/crashrecovery.xpt (must be chmoded to 644)

-undoclosetab:
/root/.mozilla/default/n3l4l82t.slt/chrome/undoclosetab.jar
/opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/defaults/pref/undoclosetab.js
I can't get this to work for users other than root. It seems to install to the app directory and to the root profile, not to a user's profile. I'll keep looking into this.

- session manager:
/opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/chrome/sessionmanager.jar (must be chmoded to 644)

-duplicate tab:
/opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/defaults/pref/duplicatetab.js
I can't get this to work for users other than root.

[Joe1962]

-duplicate tab:
/root/.mozilla/default/n3l4l82t.slt/chrome/duplicatetab.jar
/opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/defaults/pref/duplicatetab.js
This actually also installs the .jar to the default root profile and the .js to the app dir.
Moving the .jar to the app dir fixes this one:
mv /root/.mozilla/default/n3l4l82t.slt/chrome/duplicatetab.jar /opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/chrome/duplicatetab.jar
chmod 644 /opt/seamonkey/lib/seamonkey-1.1.12/chrome/duplicatetab.jar

[Joe1962]

Oh well, I ended up digging around inside the xpi files and fixing them to register properly into the app dir. But that's more of a story for the SeaMonkey Forum...

[StrayBit]

Wondering if this would help on our problem with Yahoo, I attempted your fix for sessionmanager.  Seamonkey 1.1.7 doesn't seem to have that file either in /opt/seamonkey or in /root.

[Joe1962]

Not sure I understand, sessionmanager is an extension you can download and install. But I don't see how it can help with a Yahoo problem...

[StrayBit]

I was hoping it might help but since I'm using a different version of SeaMonkey, I couldn't even try it!