Well, they are called nightlies for a reason...because things are
changing *DAILY*. So if is broke today, wait awhile and it will get
fixed. If you are using non-release versions of Mozilla for your daily
"important" tasks...well, lets just say that isn't recommended.
But what you should really understand is that Mozilla *is not* intended
to be used by Joe-Average enduser. It (Mozilla) is primarily a platform
(a damn good one I might add) for *others* (companies and/or
individuals) to build a Browser/Mail/News/IRC/Calendar/etc package. In
general these "Packagers of Mozilla" are smart enough to use official
release versions that are then tweaked to add/remove their own desired
features. This is precisely how Mozilla is intended to be delivered to
Joe-Average enduser.
The most obvious example of a "Mozilla Packager" adding a feature that
Mozilla does not have would have to be NS6's spell checker. The spell
checker in NS6.x is *PROPRIETARY* and not 'open source' and as such, can
not be included with Mozilla source/binaries. Netscape is totally
welcomed to do this because they are taking Mozilla and *repackaging
it*. This is essentially the same thing that happens when
Redhat/Suse/<Insert_Linux_Brand_Here> take the official Linux source
tree and configure/package/sell it as their *brand* of Linux.
Now, if one is not a Joe-Average enduser...then they should be aware of
the inherent risks associated with using nightly builds and take
personal responsibility *when*, and not complain *if*, something goes wrong.
Regards,
J Mosser
Al Rider wrote:
> I've given up on reporting bugs on bugizlla. It's a waste of time.
>
> The contibutors seem to more interested in adding new bells and whistles
>
> Sorry if the spelling is not correct? There is no spell checker.
>
> Text insert caret placement is terribly annoying. It is aligned with
> the trailing edge of the character just keyed, rather than at the
> location for the next character to be keyed. {yes, I reported this bug
> months ago]
>
> OK button for Preferences doesn't work for nightly 2001121003.
>
> Newsgroups View "Thread with unread" has been fixed and broken numerous
> times. It's been broken the last few nighly builds. And yes, it's a
> Bugzilla.
>
> ActiveX wrapper is broken. I bugzilla reported it last summer.
>
> Text too small in this message? Sorry, I can't find a way to change it.
>
> I'd select all the text and right mouse click it to change the text
> size; but the context menu doesn't work.
>
> Oh please don't remind me of NS6x. I have better things to do with my
> time than play with all the AOL ads and pop-ups, etc.
>
> MS is getting ready to release IE 7 and Moz is still "a work in
> progress" and appears it will never be mature enough to be a solid
> replaceement.
>
> It's terrific that Mozilla complies faithfully to W3C standards; but so
> what. Web designers [for the internet] are forced to make their stuff
> conform to IE5.5 and IE6 anyhow.
>
> What's the current bug number? 114K + and counting. Doesn't take much
> math skill to figure out the bugs will never be reduced to a reasonable
> amount.
>
> For every 100 bugs they fix, they introduce 80 new ones.
>
> Bottom line is: it is a damn shame AOL/Sun won't support the effort. I
> hope MS pulls the plug on AOL and doesn't let them use the IE engine.
> Then we'll see real support.
>
> Ahmen...........
>
