"Toussaint OTTAVI (TK1BI)" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been waiting for Netscape 6 release for months, but I'm very
> disappointed by the current one. Fewer features than the old ones,
> and sooo slooooow ! Marketing rules :-((
>
> Netscape brains should have let the developpers work as they used
> to (I hope... ;-), and and not force them to release this featureless
> and speedless version :-(
>
> --
>
> Anyway, I've been trying to have it work for two days. And as I'm
> very angry about those details, my thought is not as clear as it
> could be :-) So, maybe there are some simple solutions to the
> problems listed below :
>
> * Messenger 6 does not import data from 4.7. This worked with the
> 6PR1 on another machine, but nothing to do with the 6 Final on
> this machine. I had to do it by hand with... explorer :-)
> (mail, bookmarks and filters, but I didn't manage to copy the news)
>
> * At startup, the activation screen pops up. No way to 'Cancel' the
> activation, I do not need (and do not want) any web-based
> services on Netcenter. No way to bypass. I finally tried to
> register, just to get rid of that pop-up. No way, strange error
> messages.
>
> * Help does not run (strange error messages, again)
>
> * My Sidebar : the onlything I would see there is my current bookmark
> list (not the webcenter-based 'bookmarks from anything'). I managed
> to do that with the PR-1 on another machine, nothing to do with
> this one. 'bookmarks' does not appear in the list of available
> items, and 'preview' and 'add' buttons are disabled.
>
> * GUI display is slow, and general message processing is slow. I clicked
> on 'subscribe news' before typing this message, it's still retrieving
> the newsgroups list from the harddisk in a loud noise ! Ok, that's easy
> to solve : I can buy 1.5 GHz CPU, 10k rpm HDD U2W LVD and some hundreds
> of Mb of RAM... But what should the 'normal' user say, seeing that the
> old 4.7 is much faster, and even IE5 is much more faster ???
>
> --
>
> After the unuseful critics :-) here are a few wishes for the future
> releases (don't know if they are in the current todo list) :
>
> * Messenger, message filters : button 'Apply filters NOW'
> (such Outlook does ;-)
>
> * Bookmarks / Add bookmark : popup to allow to change the name of the
> bookmark (such IE does :-)
>
> * GUI: XML, XUL and such acronyms may be a dream for programmers, they
> are a catastroph for the users... Speed enhancement should be one of
> the priorities for the future (GUI speed, not html speed).
>
> * Plugins manager : Should allow to activate/deactivate plugins. i.e.
> disabling Flash on slow sites, or disabling PDF plugin to allow
> direct save to disk. (without moving flash.dll and pdf.dll to
> the trash, such as I did :-)
>
> * Does the Prev/Next buttons work ? What's the disk cache caching ?
> Whatever you do, pages are still re-loaded and the 'Back' button
> usually generates net traffic. I'm dreaming of 'real' playback,
> where the 'back' button would display immediatly the whole
> layout of the previous viewed page (no matter of ASP/forms
> inconstancies, just viewing the previous page as it was displayed
> a few seconds ago...)
>
> --
>
> End of this looong message. Hope someone will help me to solve the
> above problems, before I solve them in a more radical manner :-)
>
> I'm still dreaming of a simple & efficient WWW browser and mail
> client, with lots of useful features, and in which I could deactivate
> all the unneeded multimedia & ressource-eating functions, which could
> be multi-platform, and which would send *absolutely* NO data to the
> manufacturer's site without user agreement...
>
> It's near 02:00AM, maybe I'm sleeping, and I'm really dreaming :-|
>
> Regards,
> --
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this is mozilla's ng... separate from NS6
