At 20:59 21/01/2001 -0500, Robert Ennis wrote:
Here's what scares me about the nightly builds. I downloaded 0.7. the day it was released. I couldn't believe what a superior browser it was to NS 6. I was afraid to upset things and avoided any further nightlies, just because 0.7 worked so well. Today, I became impulsive and downloaded the nightly build from January 19. It won't start. I just sit and stare at a splash screen with a lizard spitting fire. Nothing will make it start (NS 6 all over again). Fortunatly, I wasn't so impulsive that I trashed 0.7. I saved it, and thankfully I have it and I'm using it now. I trashed the nightly.
Scary stuff, this Mozilla adventure...
There's generally a major difference between a milestone release and a nightly. The nightly release is just a snapshot of the development tree on that day, it could be good, it could be partially junk. People are getting better at only landing changes that make sense but in the best run households sometimes the toast gets burnt.
Milestone releases, whilst if they are intermediate like 0.7, tend to be a little more stable. Major milestones like 0.6 and that was only major because NS put so much effort into stability and not features will always be more secure but will be more conservative in terms of features.
My syntax was a little pre-caffeine there.
Simon
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
Just downloaded installed and Tried out Nightly build for Friday 19th.
For Mozzila for Mac.
Still no Location bar for Mail and News for users of smaller monitors.
Save as command still does works as it supposed to. (Supposed to pick
name of subject from subject
line in header info).
Although hiding of read messages can now be set up. Must uncheck
"Threaded" in Messages menu for it
to work. (I guess that's an improvement).
When I read messages in Communicator I have set:
View > Messages > Unread
View > Sort > Thread
Messages set this way show only unread messages and thread. Can not be
set this way in Moz/N6
Still other little minor items. I guess its improving.
Found out the reasons for Plugins not working on Mac. It seems that Mac
Netscape plugins depend upon
a technology called Liveconnect that is proprietary to Netscape. It
seems almost all Netscape Plugins use
Live connect. Of Course anything proprietary is Prosona Non Grata. So
all Plugin Manufacturers will be
required to add some additional code to use the new method. Many of the
plugins for netscape on the
Mac side are rather old and its unlikely some are even in business so.
Its doubful if plugins ever work on
the Mac side. Flash is supposed to work and Quicktime, but doesn't
handle all the mime types out there.
So many items on the web will not be able to be seen on Moz/N6 for Mac
(Another thing to drive Mac
User to IE.
One feature I can't figure out though was killed or at least hasn't been
thought of. On the Mac Platform in
Communicator we have the ability to choose which plugins handle which
Mime types and pick and
choose which Mime types they handle through the Edit > Preferences >
Navigator > Applications menu.
Its My understanding that PC's have never had this ability. And Since
most work is focused on PC's its
unlike that this feature survive. This is a good feature be it
UNIX/Mac/PC. Many plugins handle unique
MIME types; but also handle common types, there should be the ability to
pick and choose which plugin
handles, which MIME types.
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