Just a word of warning: When downloading nightlies you are using test code and as such could encounter a bug that might cause damage to your data. I keep my nightlies in their own directory and use a test profile and only install landmark releases over my day to day mail/browser for use on my profile.
JS wrote: > I just thought I'd add my 2c, and this is not a flame, the question was > eloquently put and I am in the same category - I consider myself an avid > enthusiast;I absolutley admire this technology and those that have the > where-with-all to put all of this together for the rest of us to use in > our everyday work and recreation. One really interesting aspect of all > of this is that everyone can have completely different experiences using > the exact same software but on different OS's or machines. I, for one, > have had a very different experience using the Mozilla builds, I've > actually rid my system of of Netscape 4.x and 6.x, 6.x seems to be about > 8 steps behind Mozilla on any given day, I now find that I use Mozilla > about 99% of the time now; I have a very good browsing experience and > the email/newsgroups works perfectly on my machine. This was simply my > 2c re: this post and my high compliments to those capable contributors > to this project. > Perhaps I should insert this in a separate post; there have been a lot > of responses to Geoff's post and this may get lost in the shuffle but > here goes: I update my builds fairly frequently, just wanted to check if > I'm doing this correctly: I go to the www.mozilla.org page and then go > to the box 'nightly builds' and then I click on my OS (Win) and download > begins. It seems I am downloading a complete new program each time. Does > this download actually build on my previous installation or does it > completely install a whole new installation of the Mozilla 0.9.7+ build? > In other words, am I downloading more than I should each time? As I > stated, I am an enthusiast. > > > > Geoff wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This post is *not* a complaint. I have nothing but admiration and >> gratitude for the developers of moz, galeon, and opera, all of which I >> use. I am not a fluent programmer and I do not pretend to understand >> javascript. I would, however, be really grateful if someone could >> explain, >> in terms I have a chance of understanding, why it is that so many sites >> (especially commercial sites), can be viewed without problems in my >> clunky >> old Netscape 4.76, but throw up (in particular), javascript errors or >> otherwise fail to render properly in any of the more recent browsers I >> have mentioned? I understand that opera has its own design and problems, >> but could not the core functionality of Netscape 4 have been carried over >> into moz? >> >> Regards, >> >> Geoff >> > >
