Jonathan wrote:
>
> "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,
> > --
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > Toussaint OTTAVI -= TK1BI =- -= BC 109 Soft =-
> > Phone : (+33) 6.10.28.41.72 (GSM) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Mail : B.P. 223, F-20179 AJACCIO Packet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> this is mozilla's ng... separate from NS6
That's true but it has Mozilla M18 code in it. so anything that apllies
to N6 applies to any Build up M18.
Actually there's not a whole lot of difference other than security for
Mac and use of Instant messenger.
So for all pratical purposes N6 and Moz are the same. As much as
everyone hear protest.
--
Phillip M. Jones, CET
If it's "fixed", don't "break it"!
