On 13 Apr 2002, at 16:58, Net Llama! boldly uttered: > 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.
Interesting. I didn't get that impression from reading the release notes. Reading them over again only implies certain speed improvements for the Solaris and BeOS ports. I guess I'll take your word for it though. > > 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. Well bear in mind that my 'window manager' in this case is MS Windows, so.. <g> Then again, Opera is my main browser in that environment and I found the Linux version had the same kind of advantages over Netscape as it did in Windows. > > 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. Which is why I don't bother with Netscape 6. However my general feeling is that most of the differences are minor. Mostly Mozilla seems to have gone farther down the road of giving control to users in areas like cookies/popup windows/etc, and not incorporating all the stuff that funnels people to Netscape/AOL content and sites. I seem to recall various articles that have suggested that Netscape never got much interest in Mozilla from non-Netscape programmers, and that their own employees were still the major contributors. I also was under the impression most of the senior project managers were Netscape employees. I could just have it all wrong here, or that may have changed dramatically over the last year or so. -- Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
