> From: Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > > > > From: Dwight Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > [Netscape] is a piece of > > > shoddy and amateurish programming that is a disgrace to the profession. > > You have misquoted me, sir. I _never_ referred globally to Netscape as "... a > piece of shoddy and amateurish programming". That is emphatically not true > and I will not have you put those words in my mouth.
Then speak less ambiguously. > On the contrary, Netscape is a highly useful application with many > admirable features. Yes it is, but it is also an unreliable, frustrating, annoying pain in the butt. > It has been my exclusive Web browser over the past five > years and I have personally found it immensely useful. Mine too. That's how I know something about how buggy it is. > Netscape for Linux has many problems, but we must be ever thankful to the > programmers who, working as volunteers and without pay, produced a free > Netscape for Linux from a time several years before Netscape open-sourced > its code and embraced the Free Software movement. What the heck does the free porting to Linux have to do with Netscape's poor quality? The bug I described earlier crashed Solaris Netscape just as definitely as Linux Netscape. The infinite-loop problem you describe is present in the MS Windows version, isn't it? (If it isn't, a problem with similar symptoms is.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )