Christian Biesinger typed: > Arg. OK. Let's continue flaming. > > Netscape Basher wrote: > >> Christian Biesinger typed: >> >>> Netscape Basher wrote: >>> >>>> Abandonment of theme development on 6.2.1? Shitting on users >>> >>> Pardon?? You call it "shitting on users" providing five themes for a >>> browser? >> >> >> Considering Netscape hasn't made single one available for months. >> Opera gives dozens of themes. > > > I didn't know that Opera supports themes... > And, by the way, I just went to the Opera Home Page and was unable to > find a single theme there.
You didn't bother looking http://my.opera.com/customize/ dozens... > >>>> Giving you a worthless version of Real Player? That is a big issue >>> >>> >>> Which version does Netscape come with? >>> >>> But anyway, if you want a newer one, don't install the one >>> distributed with Netscape, but get it from real.com. This is not at >>> all a big issue. >> >> >> End users shouldn't have to do this and it is a big deal with modem >> users, which are the majority of users. > > > Personally, I find that RealPlayer 8 works with everything that I've tried. Wait until you find a site that will tell you have to update your player. Netscape should be giving it's customers the lastest stuff. > >>>> Having to register it? That is a big issue >>> >>> You don't have to register it. >> >> >> Oh, and that lovely pop-up box is just there to please us? > > > Click the "X" Button in the upper right corner. > Or follow my suggestion from another posting. And it comes back the next time you start. > >>>> And the fact it's been four years and STILL no 1.0 Mozilla version, >>>> and the roadmap continues to be moved back. >>> >>> My personal guess is that 1.0 will be released in April, as the >>> roadmap states. >> >> >> Go back and read the road map from two years ago. One year ago. >> 0.9.9 is behind schedule. > > > 0.9.9 is not behind schedule. The Roadmap only talks about an "ideal > release". We will release it later. So what? Better release a better > product later than a bad product now. > And in any case it needs not affect the 1.0 release. Go back and read the road map from two years ago, one year ago. It's behind schedule. By the time they release a good product, it will be out of date... again > >>>> And the fact more bugs are being found than fixed. >>> >>> Most "new found bugs" are really either already known or requests for >>> enhancements. >> >> Not according to their own statistics. More bugs are being assigned >> than fixed. > > > I don't see a contradiction here. > >> Mozilla is not an end-product, it is a beta product, has been for four >> years now. > > > If Mozilla is a beta product, why is Netscape not? It's mostly the same > code. > Because Netscape promotes it as a Fully Functional end user product. Netscape is not Mozilla. The latest Netscape took Mozilla .9.4, added some code and bells and published it, as a fully working version of Netscape. Mozilla is very clear they are not an end user product and are a beta product. Take a look at what I am posting this under, Mozilla. I am a tester and I view from an end user point of view.
