Frank Gerhardt wrote: > I'm coming from the Forte Agent newsreader and try to find my way around > in Mozilla now. Probably I just don't get it. I wonder, how can I use > the offline mode *well*. I read all help files and understand them. > That's not the issue. > What I would like to ask is, what is the "workflow" when using the > offline mode for news. I am used (from Forte Agent) to first download > the headers, then select what I would like to watch or kill, and finally > download the bodies. > In Mozilla 0.98 I see the watch feature but there is no visual indicator > showing that a thread is watched. And watching doesn't seem to cause a > later download of the bodies. > I can mark a whole newsgroup for offline use but I rarely want to read > all postings of a group -- I would like to select the ones that I want > to download. > > Confused, Frank. >
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020207 Try a recent build. I use the above, and it's the most stable mozilla I've used yet, and noticeably faster. In any case, they have added an icon for watched threads (which for some inexplicable reason only appears when a post becomes a thread - if you try to mark a post that has not been replied to, the icon does not appear). It is possible to view watched threads with unread messages, but there is still no option to simply look at all of your watched threads (whether they have new posts or not). There is also a strange bug that occurs sometimes when replying to a post: if you immediately select some text to delete, mozilla may hang (Windows98). You may be able to kill it with a task manager, but I always find I have to reboot to get access to my network back. This may sound like a bad review, but I'm beginning to like the mozilla newsreader a lot. So far, NOTHING is as good as knode, the KDE newsreader, but mozilla is inching itself in the right direction, and it's the only one I enjoy using on Windows, so far.
