Seamonkey/Mozilla Tips

(external link) Seamonkey (formerly known as Mozilla) is a modern Internet applications suite, including - among others - an Internet browser and an e-mail client, originally developped by the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation has decided they don't want to continue the development of Mozilla any more, and instead want to concentrate on a separate e-mail client and browser. Luckily some people decided they do want to continue development of Mozilla with the name Seamonkey, so (external link) try to support them!

There are several tools and options that make my life in the Internet easier and a bit funnier. Read about them right here!

Seamonkey/Mozilla Navigator

the Adblock project is a tool with which you can filter images and flash objects. Just rightclick on an image or a flash object and you can specify that Mozilla never again loads this image. You can also define strings that match image URLs that should not be loaded, e.g. if you specify "http://ad.*" no image will be displayed if the image's URL begins with "http://ad.".
You can add a file user.js in your Seamonkey/Mozilla directory where the file prefs.js is located an add your own configuration statements there. If you don't know how to do this see the section named "More Information" below.
I love working with the tabbed windows. I want to be able to decide for myself if a website should be opened in a new browser window, a new tab or in the same window. This is why I blocked the possibility for pages to be opened in a new window when I click on links. With the following statement I achieve this:
user_pref("browser.link.open_newwindow", 1);
In older versions of Mozilla you achieve it with the statement
user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true);
When openening new tabbed windows don't focus them:
user_pref("browser.tabs.loadInBackground", true);
In contrast to Seamonkey, I couldn't find a way to enable autofilling of possible URIs in Firefox. The following option activates that:
user_pref("browser.urlbar.autoFill", true);
I sometimes want to view a file with vim. Since - as far as I know - it isn't possible to use arguments in the "open it with" edit box I use a simple shell script to open a xterm and vim. Basically it goes like this
#!/bin/sh
xterm -e "/usr/bin/vim $1"
Thanks to the friendly people at #mozilla on irc.mozilla.org!

Seamonkey/Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups

You can add a file user.js in your Seamonkey/Mozilla directory where the file prefs.js is located an add your own configuration statements there. If you don't know how to do this see the section named "More Information".

Some of my configuration statemens and their meanings are:

To disable the graphical quoting style add the following:
user_pref("mail.quoted_graphical", false);
user_pref("mail.quoteasblock", false);
To disable the format flowed style, which is incompatible amongst some mail readers, add:
user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
user_pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false);
To disable the displaying of emoticons as graphics add:
user_pref("mail.display_glyph", false);
To disable the formatting of structured phrases (e.g. "*important*" gets displayd bold) add:
user_pref("mail.display_struct", false);
To show the UserAgent string when displaying e-mails, add the following line:
user_pref("mailnews.headers.showUserAgent", true);

More Information

Get more information on Customizing Mozilla.

If you have any comments or tips please let me know!

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Last update: March 20, 2008

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