The Champions Program "also applies" to Netscape 6 as well.
Just visit :
<snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.mac>
<snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.windows>
<snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.unix>
I can think of three in the Communicator 4 program that also post in the
netscape6 forums.
Asa Dotzler wrote:
>
> Ben Clinger wrote:
>
> > Asa Dotzler wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Ben Clinger wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Pristle wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>A bunch of us have asked for it <yep> and occasionally repeat the
> >>>request.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>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.
>
> 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
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