On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:06:30 -0500, Jay Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All that ranting and no URL's or details outlining your problems ....... If you'd simply look through the newsgrup, you'd see that I posted a number of other messages at nearly the same time detailing the problems I've experienced with Mozilla 0.9.4 (and a few I've encountered and posted since). I didn't feel that it was necessary to repeat them all for the benefit of the few people who couldn't retain more than one message in their memory at a time. And the problems I experienced with 0.9.3 (which I asked for help on when I used 0.9.3 in mid August) that aren't appearing with 0.9.4 don't really bear repeating at all, since they're no longer issues (but if you want to know what kinds of problems I was having, look for my posts around 8/12 and 8/13/01 in Goggle, and you'll see that those problems really were quite debilitating, and made it impossible to use Mozilla 0.9.3 with any regularity). Additionally, many of Mozilla's problems that I was referring to aren't URL specific, such as the way Mozilla screws up the registry's association settings, causing Eudora to react strangely to URL's (Mozilla opens, but so does a "what program do you want to open this with?" box) and causing Forte Agent to crash hard upon opening. There's also the way Mozilla doesn't update the URL bar half the time, often giving the location for a site I visited 10 minutes ago, which has no bearing whatsoever on the site I'm currently visiting. Then there's the text boxes that get filled with random crap periodically, instead of blankness or text (I've seen this on a variety of sites, including Mozilla's own BugZilla site. It doesn't seem to be page specific). Or how about the fact that I imported my bookmarks from Netscape, and ONE sub-folder imported as empty (while all of the others imported without a problem)? It happened to be all of my online banking and billing bookmarks, which are pretty important. If I had deleted my Netscape installation without checking every single bookmark folder in Mozilla, I'd have lost those bookmarks. These problems have nothing to do with any incompatibility with particular websites, but make it harder to use the browser as one's only (or even primary) browser. Since you seem incapable of retaining more than one message in your memory at once, I'll reiterate a few of the URL-specific problems I've encountered with Mozilla 0.9.4. Scrolldown menus don't work properly (i.e. the mouse goes anywhere NEAR them, and they scroll, making links underneath them impossible to access), as in: http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&id=kungfujoe Entire menu bars don't appear, such as the menu that's supposed to be at the top of the screen on Ameritrade's site after you log in: http://www.ameritrade.com "alt" descriptions of images don't appear when you hover the mouse over an image, such as on the image at the top of my homepage (or ANY image ANYWHERE, for that matter): http://home.rochester.rr.com/erikh/ I should add that when I talk about a program's overall stability, I don't JUST talk about how often it crashes and brings up Dr. Watson, but also how well or how poorly it does the things it's supposed to. If a program is riddled with bugs that keep me from using it as it is supposed to be used, it is not stable, even if it doesn't completely crash once (which, so far, Mozilla hasn't done. But it's only been on my machine for about 20 hours). Erik Harris eharris1@rocheste$.$$.com http://w3.to/erik ICQ: 2610172 Chinese Martial Arts Assoc @ Cornell: http://w3.to/CMAAC/ To avoid Spam-bots, my address at the top is INCORRECT. Change each dollar sign to an "r".
