I didn't see this message until now, although this was posted before 
other message I've already replied to. This is because of a strange bug 
that was hiding two unread messages. I'm unsure how I could report this 
bug. The only way would be to send in the 4MB newsgroup file 
"netscape.public.mozilla.general".

I solved the problem by removing these files and download the headers 
from the server again.

Comments follows:

Jonas J�rgensen wrote:
> David Tenser wrote:
>> I have actually reported one bug myself (124703), and only one day 
>> after that, over 50 more bugs was reported. One week later, my bug is 
>> still unconfirmed...
> 
> 
> Not anymore... ;-)

Way to go! Thanks again.

>> I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one. I hope that someone highly 
>> involved in the Mozilla project gets to read this too, although I 
>> doubt it will make a difference. Thanks for your thoughts JTK.
> 
> Do yourself a favor: Don't listen to JTK. He is always whining about how 
> Mozilla sucks, and whenever something he has complained about gets 
> fixed, he takes the credit for it. He also seems to believe that Mozilla 
> is part of a secret conspiracy between AOL, China and Stalin.

Everybody keeps saying that... I don't like to judge people based on 
other people's statements.

>> Yes, I realize that what I just wrote sounded strange, since the UI 
>> _is_ the Gecko engine, as you so cleverly pointed out.
> 
> Actually the UI is just _rendered_ by Gecko, it isn't part of Gecko itself.

That's what I ment. Sorry if I failed to express myself correctly.

>> Ok, the page may be rendered faster according to some advanced 
>> benchmarking tests, but the average user (I keep getting back to that 
>> user!) won't even notice it. She will only notice that the program 
>> loads slowly and is slow overall.
> 
> ....but try comparing the performance of todays Mozilla with the 
> performance of a build from, say, six months ago. And six months from 
> now it will be much better than it is today.

Got you. And I agree, from the three weeks I've been using Mozilla, I've 
seen progress in every aspect. Mail/news client is probably the most 
bugfixed program lately, it didn't work at all when I first downloaded 
Mozilla.

> My point is that *everybody* wants Mozilla to be the best browser on the 
> market. Simply screaming about how much Mozilla sucks won't help. I'm 
> not saying that you are like that, but JTK certanly is.

I have never even been close to saying that Mozilla sucks. I will 
probably never have to say it either, since the program gets better and 
better almost every build.

I'm sorry if I sound negative from time to time, but the truth is I'm 
all excited about this. I have always been a critic, I critizise my own 
work as much as anyone else's. I like Mozilla more and more. I even use 
it as my default mail client now, despite the lack of the forwarding 
filter option that I could really need.

 > I'd stay away
> from him if I were you. (And I'd stay away from mozillaquest.com as 
> well, BTW). What will help (unless you want to write some code, of 
> course) is testing, filing bugs, spotting bugs that are duplicates of 
> other bugs, and helping with QA. See <http://mozilla.org/quality/help/>. 
> If you just want to use Mozilla and just file an occasional bug every 
> once in a while, that's also OK.

I'm trying to be as active as I can in the project. Unfortunately, my C 
programming knowledge is very poor, so I can't help with the coding. I 
do post every bug that I come across, unless I'm unsure how to do it 
(read the beginning of this email again!).

/ David


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