Asa Dotzler wrote:
> Ben Clinger wrote:
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>>Asa Dotzler wrote:
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>>>Ben Clinger wrote:
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>>>>Pristle wrote:
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>>>>>The link,
>>>>>
>>>>>http://home.netscape.com/communicator/v4.5/passwords/doit.html
>>>>>
>>>>>was once the location to enable or disable profile passwords on a shared
>>>>>machine. It is no more. Anyone know where this feature can be
>>>>>enabled/disabled now? I am keen to re-enable the option on a new install
>>>>>for both 4.7x and also 6.1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>Paul
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Well, the profile password feature of the 4x series is at
>>>>http://home.netscape.com/browsers/4/passwords
>>>>
>>>>The profile password feature will not be implimented in the 6x series
>>>>due to an engineering decision <?> that the password feature provided
>>>>little if any real security and therefore was not necessary, blah, blah.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>um, no.
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>>>>A bunch of us have asked for it <yep> and occasionally repeat the
>>>>request.
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>>>and some people actually stepped up with a patch <yep> and then a few
>>>additional patches.
>>>
>>>For me, it's not a matter of real security, 'cause with Windoz,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>it's a matter of opening up Explorer and just going from there. It keeps
>>>>the kids from changing my settings so they can play their on-line games.
>>>>It keeps me from having to delete unwanted bookmarks, et cetera. So to
>>>>answer your question, with 6x, it ain't gonna happen.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I doubt that you really know what is and isn't planned in Netscape
>>>releases. Please don't state your guesses as fact to new people coming
>>>into these channels looking for help.
>>>
>>>You could instead point this guy to the bug
>>><http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16489> that has the Mozilla
>>>implementation of this feature and explain to him that developers have
>>>been working on it and that it is very nearly completed and that it has
>>>a decent chance of becoming an option for vendors of Mozilla-based
>>>browsers sometime soon and that it will probably be available for
>>>testing as an XPInstall in the next few days if all goes well.
>>>
>>>I won't use this feature and I don't think that vendors of Mozilla-based
>>>products should distribute this feature but that's the beauty of open
>>>source, if someone has an itch the code is avialble and they can scratch
>>>it.
>>>
>>>--Asa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Well, from the Netscape 6 newsgroups, what I just stated was and has
>>been stated many times by people "in the know," i.e., the Champions.
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>
>
> The champions may be "in the know" for a lot of 4.x stuff but you no
> longer need them to tell you what the developers are up to since it's
> all public in Bugzilla. I appreciate the champions and I'm happy to see
> them getting up to speed with the Mozilla project but they are no more
> 'in the know' than anyone that's been reading these mozilla developer
> newsgroups and reading in Bugzilla. I pointed you to the bug (completely
> and totally publically visible) that has the actual developer
> discussions about this specific issue. It doesn't get any more first
> hand than that. I'll let you decide which one to believe and repeat to
> others.
>
> --Asa
>
>
As a note, I posted in the netscape NG the information that password
profiles were being worked on. And I appreciate your efforts. I frankly
stayed out of this area due to what I preceived as a lack of activity;
however, that does not appear to be the case here. I have been using the
Mozilla nightly builds for several weeks now and frankly, other than the
occasional bad bug that pops up, I enjoy using the product. Give me the
profile password stuff (useless as it may ultimately be) and as a
typical user, I will be happy. I can click on the AOL/IM icon for the
Instant Messenger. I can hit the Webster site to spell a word during a
lazy period, et cetera. Overall, this product is doing well. Ben
