Dear friends:
For the record, the mozilla .8 rpms in Mandrake Cooker/unsupported are
for i686. They will not install in LM7.2. When I tried to install them
in LM7.2 I got the error message: "for a different architecture." That
was that.
I finally found a version of Mozilla .8 with a Preferences box that
works. In all the other versions I tried (and I think I'd tried them
all), when clicking on OK in the Preferences box (on any item), would
cause Mozilla to crash. This problem did not exist in Mozilla .7 but it
does exist in most Mozilla .8 versions.
Well, I went back to Mozilla's home page (www.mozilla.org) and
downloaded the latest nightly build (20011105) for Linux. This time, the
bug seems to have been fixed. The Preferences configuration went off
perfectly.
Now, my own feelings as a USER about Mozilla are very mixed: I am very
pleased with its feature richness, reliability, stability, etc. However,
I find much of it aesthetically, i.e. (interface design) to be plain,
unimaginative and, in the case of the mail client, downright ugly. If
you compare the interface in Mozilla to that in KDE, Gnome or
WindowMaker, you have the strange feeling that Mozilla belongs,
aesthetically speaking, to some antediluvian, DOS or even pre-DOS (if
that is possible) generation. Let's hope that after Mozilla is
completed, the Mozilla folks will completely redesign the Mozilla
interface.
Now, for the good word I promised in my subject header:
I tried a page that was mentioned earlier by someone else. The URL is:
http://www.pcquest.com/june00/linux_spam.asp
Netscape 4.76, the latest Konqueror (in KDE 2.1) and Opera all rendered
it wrongly or as a real mess.
But Mozilla .8 renders this .asp format SUPERBLY, at least on this page.
Really astonished. What, by the way, is this .asp format that eludes
Konqueror and Opera? Whatever it is, Mozilla does a great job at
rendering it.
Yours,
Benjamin
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Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
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