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> > I have not tried Seamonkey.  Is there a precompiled
> > gtk1 version of the browser (without the composer,
> > mail, etc.).  If so, what is the URL?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>
> http://www.seamonkey-project.org
>
> Download and releases.  Linux GTK1 full installer 1.1.15.

Would someone else please try this (with glibc 2.3.2 from SW91 or later)?

The full suite, but by default (in preferences) only Navigator is loaded 
at startup.  Half the download size of Firefox and far fewer dependencies 
and should work with BL2 upgraded to glibc 2.3.2.  (The official build is 
1.0.5 and requires GKT2, libstdc++.so.6, and many other things).

2.3.1 from Slackware 9.0 might work if someone compiled a few other 
libraries for it that come with seamonkey.   They say it needs 2.2.5 and 
libstdc++ 2.9.0 or later.

While researching VOIP I ran into more sites that work with Seamonkey but 
not Opera (and one that worked with Opera but Seamonkey or Firefox would 
not display the graphical code needed to register).  I have been running 
Seamonkey chrooted to Slackware 11 in one console, which is a nuisance and 
prevents running X in BL.  I had to copy Opera in SW11 so I would be able 
to switch between them.  Chrooting to SW11 is still faster than booting 
with it but it wastes over 1GB hard disk.

I posted two missing libraries at my site (libcgcc_s.so.1 and 
libstdc++.so.5 from SW81 and SW9).  You also need libXi from xbin.tgz (SW 
71 has it).  Seamonkey 1.1.15 comes with other required libraries (for 
glibc 2.3.2).

I had to do a chmod +x on libstdc++.so.5.0.2 (probably related to how I 
downloaded it by unpacking the large library at my shell account).
Before that ldd said I did not have execution permission for it.

cd to the seamonkey directory and type ./seamonkey (the script) so it will 
find those libraries.  (The 1.0.5 installer makes symlinks to the ones it 
uses, in /usr/lib, but 1.1.15 runs from its own directory with the wrapper 
script 'seamonkey').

I get two lines of GDK warnings about locale and Xlib and it stops. Is the 
problem locale-related?  I tend to delete anything in any locale directory 
coming from Slackware packages.  glibc binutils.  I have /usr/bin/locale.

Strace was not helpful.

Should I try a later libgtk?  ldd finds libgtk-1.2-so.0.
I have it symlinked to 1.2.so.0.5.3 (Slackware 7.1). 
and Slackware 11 has 0.9.1 (which needs glibc 2.3.6).
I can get 0.9.1 from Slackware 8.1 (glibc 2.2.5) or later.

Slackware 11 has libstdc++.so.5.0.7. I have 5.0.2 (SW9.0).

Online research got me nowhere.

I tried  Xvesa or SVGA server, with rxvt or xterm or 
running it directly without even a window manager.

(Xvesa -screen 1280x1024x24 &); DISPLAY=:0 seamonkey)

I may try Slackware 9 Live CD with seamonkey from hard disk to learn 
something.

Sindi