I guess it's just frustration getting the better of me. When you 
consider how long Mozilla has been in the works, it's pretty sad that
common, every day features and functions still don't work correctly.

In the message pane, despite showing the date column as sorting in 
descending order, it doesn't actually do it properly until I toggle the 
sort to ascending and then back again.

Mozilla still shows the first newsgroup in the list as having no new 
messages when it updates subscribed groups.

The sidebar shows as transparent (mail/news) until I re-size the window, 
or switch back and forth between the address book and bookmarks.

I don't want to start a war here, but I am seriously of the opinion that 
2 or 3 good programmers could have had this thing released as a polished 
application *long* ago. The concept of an open source development 
project is a good one, but I have a feeling that it hasn't added much to 
the application itself, but instead has probably just created a 
nightmare of red-tape and endless "development".  Think about it. 
Mozilla's pretty darn cool, but really . . . how much better is it than 
Netscape 4.79?  And it took how long to get it where it's at?  I'd have 
been thrilled to get multiple POP account support in Netcape 4.x and an 
browser that was "updated".  Has anyone noticed how long it took Opera 
to bring their browser from 5.x to 6.02?  The changes and improvements 
are dramatic, and it was done *very* quickly. By the time Mozilla 
reaches 1.0, what's next?  A complete re-write for Mozilla 2.0, and 
another 3+ years?

Mark

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