seamonkey

Section: Linux User's Manual (1)
Updated: August 05, 2020
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NAME

seamonkey - an internet application suite (browser, mail, etc.)

SYNOPSIS

seamonkey [OPTIONS] [URL]

DESCRIPTION

SeaMonkey is an all-in-one Internet application suite (previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla). It includes an Internet browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, a calendar, IRC client, HTML editor and a tool to inspect the DOM for web pages. It is derived from the application formerly known as Mozilla Application Suite.

OPTIONS

A summary of the options supported by seamonkey is included below.

X11 options

--display=DISPLAY: X display to use
--sync: Make X calls synchronous
--g-fatal-warnings: Make all warnings fatal

SeaMonkey options

-h, -help: Show summary of options.
-v, -version: Print seamonkey version.
-P profile: Start with profile.
-profile path: Start with profile at path.
-CreateProfile profile_name: Create a new profile in the default directory, but do not start the application. The profile will be named profile_name in the profile manager, the profile_name must not contain spaces. Do not run profile_name while running an instance of the application, you can use the -no-remote option to avoid connecting to a running instance.
-CreateProfile "profile_name profile_dir": The same, but creates a new profile in the profile_dir directory. Note profile_name and profile_dir are quoted together, and are separated by exactly 1 space.
-migration: Start with import wizard (if you have proper import sources).
-ProfileManager: Start with profile manager.
-no-remote: Do not accept or send remote commands. Implies -new-instance.
-new-instance: Open new instance, not a new window in running instance, which allows multiple copies of application to be open at a time.
-safe-mode: Launches the application with all extensions disabled, for that launch only (extensions are not loaded, but are not permanently disabled in the extension manager data source).
-headless: Runs SeaMonkey in headless mode, which is very useful for purposes such as debugging and automated testing.
-addressbook: Open the address book at startup.
-compose [url]: Compose a mail or news message. Options are specified as string "option='value,...',option=value,..." and include: from, to, cc, bcc, newsgroups, subject, body, message (file), attachment (file), format (html | text). Example: to=john@example.com,subject='Dinner tonight?'
-jsconsole: Open the Browser Console.
-purgecaches: Gecko (layout engine) has a JavaScript cache, which is not reset on startup, this clears it.
-edit [url]: Start with editor (composer) for the given url (optional).
-mail, -news: Open the Mail&News folder view.
-mail url: Open the message specified by this url.
-offline: Start with the offline mode. This option will only work if SeaMonkey is set to "detect automatically" the online/offline status on startup. To set this, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Mail & Newsgroups -> Network & Storage and in the "Offline" group choose "Detect automatically (if available)" in the "When starting up:" drop-down box.
-suiteconsole: Open the Error Console.
-browser: Open a browser window.
-private: Open a private browsing window.
-new-window url: Open url in a new browser window.
-new-tab url: Open url in a new browser tab.
-url url: Open the specified url.
-chrome chrome_url: Load the specified chrome.
-register chrome_url: Register the specified chrome, but do not start application.
-search term: Search term with your default search engine.
-preferences: Open Preferences window.
-remote command: Execute command in an already running SeaMonkey process. For more info, see: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
-silent: Don't open default windows. Useful with those command-line arguments that open their own windows but don't already prevent default windows from opening.

VERSION

2.53.6

BUGS

To report a bug, please visit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

AUTHORS

The SeaMonkey Team.: https://www.seamonkey-project.org