topposted - sorry -
I agree with N. Marshall:
Mozilla (even the latest nightlies) newsgroup readers is sadly lacking
in simple features, like a basic newsgroup name search engine, like a
simple "mark groups read", like the ability to organize subscribed
groups in a prefered order, like setting/unsetting watches, like an
honest sorting algorithm, like workable trivial filtering (much less
advanced, color coding, selecting filters) ...
None of which seem to be available (or are claimed to be available, as
in "watch", don't work on my linux/m2001072608 setup.)
I desparately don't want to encourage the monopoly corp so I'm
struggling with mozilla. As a browser Mozilla is currently great, except
for non-standard web pages built by weenies out there, and that's their
fault. But the newsreader sucks. I've asked before in this forum if
anyone knew if the above were reported bugs, since I haven't been able
to figure out the bugtraq search tool. But there's been no response.
So, does anyone know?
Thanks
N. Marshall wrote:
> Jerry Baker wrote:
>
>>Carlfish wrote:
>>
>>>3. Use it because they really, really prefer NN over Internet Explorer,
>>> despite IE5+ being more stable, and rendering modern HTML better.
>>>
>>It is these users that intrigue me. It would seem to me, on the surface
>>anyway, that someone who prefered to be a "hold out" and keep using NN4
>>despite IE5's admittedly better rendering would be the first person to
>>adopt NN6 or Mozilla. NN6 and Mozilla offer rendering on par with IE5,
>>and much faster than NN4, and yet these Netscape hold outs still refuse
>>to use it. I have my reasons (all are with mail and news), but I am
>>curious why others choose to keep using NN4.
>>
>
> The reason I didn't switch to NN6.01 is because it's too slow.
> As for mozilla, I use it for 99.9% of my browsing now and 100% of my IRC
> chatting, but I use Nav4 still for the email/newsgroups.
>
> I just don't like how slow the To: fields are. I keep typing the
> subject in the 2nd To: field because it didn't realize that I pressed
> <enter><tab>. That just annoys the hell out of me enough to not use it.
>
