Philip J. Koenig wrote: > 0.9.8. When I looked at what changed in 0.9.9 I didn't think there > was anything worth running out and upgrading for. Mostly cosmetic > stuff or stuff I don't use.
If you use Mozilla, then you use the stuff that was improved in Mozilla-0.9.9. For starters its more stable, and runs faster. > I can tell you this: if I wasn't running Mozilla on this relatively > new fire-breathing monster (P4 1.7Ghz/256MB) I don't think I could > tolerate it. It was painful on all the slower/lower memory machines > I'd used it on. Perhaps the problem was your window manager/environment, and not Mozilla. Mozilla-0.9.9 runs damn well on all of my boxes, from a lowly P300 to a PIII-1Ghz. The difference in performance between them is negligible. > Mozilla is also heavily infiltrated by Netscape/AOL influence these > days, and that bugs me. Even though Mozilla is "open source", I am > under the impression that the majority of code writers are Netscape/ > AOL employees, and that Netscape/AOL maintains a certain "veto" power > over certain aspects. That's not even close to being true. Have you looked at the content on http://www.mozilla.org lately? > > As an example of why this is an issue for me: > > http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html Do not confuse Netscape with Mozilla. They are not the same beast. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step: http://netllama.ipfox.com 4:55pm up 15 days, 6:47, 3 users, load average: 0.45, 0.24, 0.25 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
