"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> Daniel Veditz wrote:
> >
> > "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
> > >
> > > Your not missing much with Talkback.
> > > It been my experience on Mac that Talkback cause crashes instead of
> > > reporting them. On Communicator for Mac the recomended course is to
> > > remove all traces of Talkback in Communicator and in system Files
> > > Talkback and Full Circle items, before opening Communicator the first
time.
> >
> > That might be an appropriately defensive posture for an end-user of a
> > shipping product with known problems, but not here in a forum dedicated
to a
> > work-in-progress.
> >
> > The talkback data is extremely valuable in pinpointing and fixing common
> > crashes (Search for bugs with the topcrash keyword). Currently we have
> > enough reports coming in that we can only focus on the most common
crashes,
> > so if you want your pet peeve to get some attention using talkback can
only
> > help :-)
> >
> > -Dan Veditz
>
> Dan,
>
> Just for your curosity borrow a Mac, install a Copy Netscape 6 with
> Talkback included.
> Make sure Talkback in operating order (not turned off) and setup. Now
> sit back and notice how many type-2, type-3, and type-10 quits you will
> experience when Talkback is operating and how many times Talkback locks
> up your Computer.
> There are some included extensions and other files, that are placed in
> system Folder, to make Talkback work on Mac. There is a known conflict
> with these items and system OS. The versions of these files are
> identical be it for N6, or be it for Communicator. The company supplying
> this technology for the Mac Platform has been told about this problem
> (been conflicting with the system since OS 8.1) (we are now using 9.0.4)
> yet no effort has been made to correct the conflicts.
>
> Talkback on PC platform may be greater than sliced bread. But on Mac
> Platform its been worse than pure H***. For PC owners it may work as
> desired , but for Mac Users, my recomendation is open your N6 install
> and remove Talkback folder, and Talkback and full circle items from
> system asap before you open Netscape 6.
Phillip,
Take a few deep breaths.
This is a Mozilla newsgroup.
You're ranting about Netscape.
Netscape is not Mozilla.
We're not disagreeing with *what* you're saying,
but with *where* you've chosen to say it.
Please take discussion about Netscape elsewhere.
