Hi all,
I have just been trying out a build of Mozilla v0.9.4 - specifically the
mail & news component.
On the whole my impression of Mozilla is that it has a lot of potential,
however it's one major drawback is the fact that as good as it looks, an
alarming majority of basic features are fundamentally broken. For example:
- For no apparent reason, Mozilla will ignore the "enter" key in the URL
bar, thus rendering it impossible to go to a site.
- For no apparent reason, the Mozilla IMAP client will complain
"connection refused" when selecting certain folders, when the IMAP
server is working fine. A tcpdump indicates no traffic over the network.
- After switching between folders in IMAP, Mozilla will stop opening
folders after they have been selected, simply doing nothing instead.
There are many many more problems, too many to list here. I have been
adding problems to bugzilla as I go along, but I cannot help noticing
that the quality level of the Mozilla product has remained consistently
low over the many months that I have been experimenting with it.
What level of checking is done to ensure that commits to CVS are of an
acceptable quality? To date all evidence suggests that people are able
to commit any old rubbish to the tree, forcing other people to follow
behind in an ever increasing spiral of resultant bugs, resulting in a
product that will remain functionally useless as a result.
The fact remains that I am still using Netscape v4.73 as both a browser
and email client (latest available for LinuxPPC), and I'm dying to
switch to Mozilla soon. But Mozilla remains in a state of continuous
brokenness in the many of its fundamental features. The Mozilla
community would be doing itself an enormous service by implementing some
simple quality assurance rules so that broken code doesn't get committed
to the tree as a matter of course.
Regards,
Graham
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