Orrin Edenfield wrote:
>
> JTK wrote:
>
> > But I can't wait for the Rapture. I figure it's best to get it out of
> > the way now, so that, assuming Mozilla ships before we're all nothing
> > but dry bones, I can at that time roll out the "I told you so"'s. "Now"
> > of course meaning 3+ years down a sad, lonely, fruitless, yet
> > all-too-well-trodden path.
> >
>
> Well, you can see the progress that has been made in those 3+ years,
> correct?
Not without planting a stake in the ground next to it. And I have a
very hard time calling it progress when both the basic functionality
*and* resource usage are significantly worse than the programs it is
ostensibly intended to replace.
> Well, that means that we will get to a 1.0 release sometime...
> Hard to say when, but it WILL happen. :-)
>
Yes, a "1.0" will be painted on the side at some far-future date, of
that I have no doubt.
> >
> >>I'm using a nightly after 0.8.1 on a daily basis as my main
> >>email/newsgroups app.
> >>
> >
> > Two questions: How and Why? I can just barely abide somebody using
> > Mozilla the web browser, but the email/news client?!?
>
> I am using Mozilla Build ID:2001041604 for my mail/news client on an AMD
> K6-2 525 MHz with 128 megs of RAM. I usally have a bunch of apps open
> as well as Mozilla, and I don't find it hard to use. Granted, it could
> be faster, but I don't have a problem using it. In fact, I used it when
> I had a K6-2 300 with 96 megs of RAM! I love the mail/news client,
?!??!?!! *MOZILLA'S* mail/news client?!? It's a freaken' mess man!
> and
> if the browser integrated and could do some dynamic content better then
> I would use it too as my system default. I like to see how it is
> progressing, and by using it everyday, I can REALLY find stuff out.
>
Well now Ok, you're not using it as your regular email/newsreader.
That's my point.
> >
> >> I do use the browser alot tho too.. more
> >>so then Opera 5.1 (which claims to be the fastes browser on earth!).
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I thought they all were. ;-)
> >
> >
>
> Yep, except NGLayout(Gecko, Mozilla, whatever!) really is! ;-) hehe
I dare not look at the latest performance tests...
