Sebastian Späth wrote:
> Daniel Bratell wrote:
>
>>> I just downloaded and installed build 2001021508 which is version 0.8
>>> and to my surprise, there is an outlook-like screen in my face
>>> laughing at me. I use Mozilla because the mail suite didn't leave me
>>> feeling like a moron, like Outlook has done in the past. So, this
>>> begs the question, how do i disable it? and make it look like the
>>> previous versions.
>>
>
>> What do you wnat to be shown there instead? User studies showed that
>> users were confused by a completely empty screen.
>
>
> That's why these user have the option to get
> http://mozilla.org/mailnews/start.html as their startpage for mailnews
> in the preferences. Configurable to any page or to turn off, that's cool.
>
> But showing that thing on all starts makes me feel like a moron who
> needs to get
> a helping hand every time I want to check mail. Better to provide a good
> tutorial
> on how to learn to use Mozilla the real way, instead of adding this
> "Well, we know you don't know what to do now, so that's what we suggest
> you to do now" page.
>
> Sebastian
I agree. The Navigator preferences dialog has a simple selection for
what to display on startup, including the choice of a blank page, which
I will bet many users select (I certainly do). And I think this should
be an option for mail/news too.
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