“Houston, we have had a problem” — AMO Browsing for SeaMonkey and addon converter have become useless — more or less 😡
For details see Bug 1517828 – Firefox add-ons no longer available for SeaMonkey.
This means that lots of add-ons which where compatible with SeaMonkey after conversion no longer can be installed.
We will need the FF-addons without Webextensions successor versions on the new addon repository!
After repair version 0.9.16 Isaac Schemm now created a new version 0.9.17 with some enhancements. RC is available for testing on github, release will be available on AMO, soon,
I did several tests with unzipped installer of official en-US SeaMonkey 2.53a1 (NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0 Build 20170706013410 (Default Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit and checked various functions, which were broken before. For these tests I used some Add-Ons from compatibility list. 
If you want to do tests directly from AMO, you will have to select an Other Application like Firefox; from the AMO SeaMonkey Area search will only show add-ons which are compatible with SeaMonkey. The FF-AMO-Area already show the new AMO design.
I did my tests from AMO FF Area.
👍 Useful Text for add-ons built with WebExtensions, which can’t be used with SeaMonkey and which can’t be converted with Add-On-Converter — tested with LEO Dictionaries 3.0 (and YouTube a MP3 1.0.6)
Convert Previous Version
Did I forget something? All functions I tested worked fine
@Isaac: Thank you for great work.
Unfortunately after several changes on AMO website the add-on tool AMO Browsing for SeaMonkey did not work any longer. For Details please see “Bug 1389022 – “AMO Browsing for SeaMonkey” does not work any longer“!
But there are great news,
I did several tests with unzipped installer of official en-US SeaMonkey 2.53a1 (NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0 Build 20170706013410 (Default Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit and checked various functions, which were broken before. For these tests I used some Add-Ons from compatibility list.
👍 Useful Text for add-ons built with WebExtensions, which can’t be used with SeaMonkey and which can’t be converted with Add-On-Converter — tested with LEO Dictionaries 3.0
Convert Previous Version
Did I forget something? All functions I tested worked fine
@Isaac: Thank you for great work.
Adds some kind of CNN Newsticker to the sidebar.
Useful sidebar panel
Some Links to DHTML scripts and components to enhance your website
Sidebar panel still does work
Shows some Jokes.
Sidebar panel still does work
Here you find many sidebar panels which don’t work any longer
To be continued!
Please feel free to publish your own experience here as comments.
That is what I see
On Ed Mullenʼs Home Page you find (besides much other interesting stuff) a list of Sidebar-Panels which are suitable for SeaMonkey. I will write some reports on experience within the next weeks, alternating between German and English Unofficial SeaMonky Blog.
Here my results for
Thatʼs simple, the sidebar contents is no longer usable. I see Error 404 Not Found. The sidebar contents should be the contents of edazzle.net/amazon/sidebarus.aspx, what should Search Amazon.Com(?). But only an error message will be shown. Switching off uBlock does not heal the problem, it seems that edazzle.net does no longer support that search .
Contents from the web is no longer available, the Sidebar Panel has become useless.
Please feel invited to do your own tests with sidebar panels form Edʼs page or other sources and to publish your results here (or where you want).
On Ed Mullenʼs Home Page you find (besides much other interesting stuff) a list of Sidebar-Panels which are suitable for SeaMonkey. I will write some reports on experience within the next weeks, alternating between German and English Unofficial SeaMonky Blog
First one:
That can be done quickly. The panel installs without problems, but instead of useful contents it only shows an error message. The panel should show contents of 3dgamers.com/feeds/netscape/3dgamers.html. But it seems 3dgamers.com does no longer exist, if you open it in Browser you will become forwarded to fileplanet.com.
Contents from the web is no longer available, the Sidebar Panel has become useless.
Hi all, please feel invited to publish your own reports (not only for sidebar panels from Ed Mullen’s page) here in the blog!
Blogpost Version 2017-02-04 15:41 UTC
Another great tool has been added to AMO Isaac Schemm: “Sidebar Add Custom Tab“. This add-on allows to add new Sidebar Panels for showing Web Pages contents easily with few clicks.
In few moments the kitchen clock will remind me to close the toilet window.
Most web pages are not very likely for being shown in the sidebar – available width of the sidebar is too small. But some others can be really useful there. Examples:
If you want to show a Web page in the sidebar until now we were reliant to Sidebar Panel repositories with “Add Panel to Sidebar”- scripts, or we had to do some sophisicated proceeding to add a sidebar panel.
Using the new add-on that can be done with few mouse clicks.
(only few trivial ones)
Did we ever have Sidebar-TABs? I prefer to call them Panels.
SeaMonkey project blog
This unofficial SeaMonkey Blog
German unofficial SeaMonkey Blog
Tagesschau.de
Youtube: not optimum, but if you want to see/listen some music while you are working, it’s fine.
An egg timer like online-stopwatch.com, wich announces end of countdown with a ring tone (may be there are better ones needing less width?)
Probably several others …
If you know additional suitable web pages or if you know additional information concerning useful sidebar contents, please leave a comment!
Google-Calendar, Facebook,
Additional Sidebar information: I only know Ed Mullens page. Long ago there was a lot of (Netscape-) Sidebars information on DMOZ, nearby all has vanished.
If you know other useful web pages concerning SeaMonkey sidebar please leave a comment.
After a minimum test (installs on Server-Installation of unofficial (by FRG) en-US SeaMonkey 2.50a1 (NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0 Build 20161127221846 (Default Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit, converts CoLT (compatible after conversion due to compatibility list), CoLT passed some tests without problems) I extended compatible SeaMonkey version range for AMO Browsing for SeaMonkey 0.9.15 to SeaMonkey 2.22 … 2.50.*.
Bug 1275037 – Outdated hyperlinks: SeaMonkey website offering different versions than the repositories (nightly should be 2.49a1, aurora 2.48a2) or Error “404 Not Found” has become fixed, and so in future builds can be downloaded via SeaMonkey Home Page again (I tested all file-links).
BTW, I do not use the home page because you never know whether a new file does exist for download or whether the same file like yesterday will be downloaded. I survey download pages archive.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/ by the ChangeDetection Service – it’s free.
Today via Planet Mozilla (de) in Sören Hentzschel’s Blog I heard about search engine Qwant for the first time. Qwant promises a completely “different” internet search:
SeaMonkey Internet Suite 