barney wrote:
>
> Bill Lee wrote:
>
> >
> > FB wrote:
> >>
> >> Mozilla milestones are not necessarily meant to be of beta quality.
> >> They are released to allow people to test mozilla
> >> and report bugs. If all you want is a working program and you don't
> >> want to be part of
> >> that testing then you *should* stick to ns4.7. If you want to be part
> >> of a community that's trying to build
> >> a better browser, then use and test Mozilla.
> >
> > That's exactly what I'm trying to do, but I'm afraid I don't have the
> > time to trouble shoot the installation every few days and
> > reinstall/reconfigure everything just to keep it working. I think
> > that's asking too much of 'testers'. And if Moz .9 ain't beta quality
> > by now, it'll damn well better hurry up cuz 1.0 is coming up fast.
> >
> > bl
> >
>
> FWIW, I've been one of those 'testers' for well over a year, downloading
> a new talkback build every few days (depending on the bugs/fixes). I
> haven't had to reconfigure much of anything with a new build in all that
> time. Been carrying over my profile from one build to the next without
> any problems. And I've been using mozilla full time, including
> mail-news, for about 6 months. I don't think downloading every few
> days, sometimes every few hours :), is asking too much at all. It was
> my choice to do this, after all. It only takes a few seconds to copy my
> profile to a backup folder, unzip the build, and go. Out of curiosity,
> what do you have to reconfigure each time?
If you're not having any problems, then you either aren't using it hard
enough, (i.e. pushing it to the edge) or your system is one of those
rare birds that love Moz. Either way, a 'tester' with no problems at
all with Moz isn't helping to fix anything. Look over at bugzilla and
ask yourself why 'you' aren't having any of these problems and so many
others are. In answer to your question, look at my many other posts for
specific details on what gets trashed when the Lizard dies. All the
fixes are suggested by others, such as delete registry.dat, delete all
the .msf files, etc. Once you've done all this to get Moz up and
running again, you're damn well reconfiguring everything. I've done
(and continue to do) my share of bug filing and feedback sending, so
while I tend to rant, I'm at least logging it all in.
bl
