On 07/09/2002 22:47 A strange alien lifeform, Joao Rodrigues, reared up on its hind legs and bellowed:
> Parish <parish_AT_ntlworld.com> wrote: > >> If Moz/NS is to gain a sizeable market share (which it needs to if web >> developers are going to start making sure their sites work with Moz/NS) >> then we need several million JAPCUs, most of whom will be Windows (and >> therefore IE) users, to adopt Moz/NS. > > Mozilla browser is already very good. I can't find any important bugs there. > But Mail & News is FULL of them! I feel embarassed in saying bad things > about Outlook to people because they are going to ask me "What alternative > do you suggest?". Most of the time, I suggest Eudora (in Windows) or > KMail/KNode (in Linux). That's because Mozilla Mail & News is so full of > in-your-face bugs that any JAPCU would notice them. > Which is why I posted my original message; Three (OK, two really) in-your-face bugs have just been fixed. A step forward I'd say. > There are a few annoying ones: whenever I want to send an Email or News > post, I click on 'Send Later' just to read it once again and see if the > formatting is ok. Mozilla puts the message in 'Unsent Messages' folder. > But, if it's a text message, the message is stored in 'Unsent Messages' in a > non-wrapped format, instead of the 72 (default value) characters width set > in the Preferences. When it is sent, Mozilla wraps the text. But it is > stored in the 'Sent' folder unwrapped. > > And when I click on 'Send Unsent Messages', there is almost no visual > feedback that some processing is being done (bug #102919) and the message > is cleared from the message list pane but NOT from message body pane. > > And not to mention the fact that Password manager when used with news > servers that require authentication stores the username/password for *each* > newsgroup, instead of the more reasonable news server wide. This makes > users have to type their username/password for *every* group they want to > see. This is bug #36816 and it hasn't been solved for over 2 years. > > And what about ICQ for Windows which doesn't get the URL of the page being > shown in the active browser windows like Netscape (4) and IE does? This > must happen with any program that needs to know the URL of the active > browser window. Considering the popularity of ICQ, this is an in-your-face > bug. This is bug #31343 and it hasn't been solved since March 2000! > > A dialog box or a window like 'Preferences' should open up centered on > screen or, at least, centered relatively to it's parent window. But Mozilla > opens windows usually near the top left corner. This looks so sloppy! > Urghh.. > > And one could mention hundreds of little in-your-face bugs like these ones. > Netscape 4.79 Mail & News is much more robust than Mozilla's. And it > shouldn't be, because Netscape's 4 development was halted in 1998. From > 1994 to 1998 they have made a better Mail/News reader than Mozilla from > 1998 to 2002. Probably, Mozilla project has fewer engineers assigned to Mail > & News. > > > Joao -- One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking a zero, they had no way to indicate the successful termination of their C programs. Anti-spam e-mail address, sorry for the inconvenience
