Ben Bucksch wrote:
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> You say that Mozilla Mailnews is not much better than 4.x. The changes
> between Mozilla Mailnews and 4.x *are* dramatic - it is a completely
> different application.
Dear Ben, I think you also understand what Mark pointed - as ordinary
customer he (and me to) see no reasonable improvement. Instead we see a
half-done work with many bows. Yes, there are a lot of real
improvements. Browser is not critical for me, but tabs+load in
beckground are really good, some flexibility - all that is good. In
messenger we also see nice things - collecting of addresses, search over
messages bodies, rewrapping for example. But all that improvement lose
their glance on a background of unfortunate incompletenesses. I do not
speak about browser - it seems to be less critical. But messenger lost a
lot of functionality comparing to Communicator's one. For example, there
are no DSN, reduced set of marking rules, well-known shortcuts gone and
remaining do not work. All that makes me so sad. I afraid that before
acceptable release I'll get old and blind man and will no longer use
computers. Nevertheless, I even forced me to use Mozilla's Messenger, I
regulary send crash reports, try to fill bugs and still hope for better.
> The new features usually come one release after the big rewrite. First
> you try to achieve the same level you had before, and then you can take
> advantage of the better foundation.
All you say is correct, but not applies to Mozilla. Few rows above I've
pointed several situations where Mozilla lose. My acquaintance with
Internet began somewhere in 95 or 96. That time the only one package was
available for me - that was Netscape 2.0. Microsoft that time just
finished its tcp/ip stack. Since that time I was growing together with
Netscape. Sometime it was outdated, but messenger was still great. Year
and half ago I've tried Mozilla, it did not make me happy, then Mozilla
based Netscape 6 was relised, but it also was far from my expectations.
Now it is almost month passed since I forced me to use only Mozilla.
From nightly to nightly it gets better but still far from ideal. Still
crashes, still makes memory leakages - I have PIII-800 with 128M of RAM.
I have to reboot my machine twice a day becase after several hours of
work it becomes unusable. Hope, hope, hope...
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Best regards,
Victor Kazmirenko
