If you would like this problem fixed, by all means, get a compiler and debug it. We 
could use all the
help we can get.

IBM recommends the Scitech and GRADD drivers and the browser works fine on them. Those 
are the main
drivers we test as it covers most platforms. When we have time, we will look at this 
DRIVER SPECIFIC
problem. There are certainly more pressing problems that take precedence over this 
DRIVER SPECIFIC
problem.

-- This next part is NOT aimed at you Mikus, just a general statement --

I'm not sure why the attitude on this newsgroup that our job is to fix every bug that 
everyone comes
across. Have you ever heard the expression "too many cooks spoil the broth". Welcome 
to "too many
tasters and not enough cooks"

The reason that other Mozillas are doing much better than the OS/2 version is because 
they actually
have people participating in finding, DEBUGGING, and FIXING problems. And they have 
people who
learned Bugzilla and use it.

On OS/2, we have a handful of people developing (mostly IBM) and most of the rest of 
the people
complaining on the newsgroup about the fact that the nightly builds aren't working. 
Welcome to
Mozilla - surprisingly there are a lot of problems with the nightly builds. They are 
development
drivers. Here's a quote from mozilla.org about the nightlies - "these will probably 
work, but maybe
not."

And by the way if anyone would take the time to look in Bugzilla, they could see that 
a lot of the
problems they report are cross-platform.

I AM paid by IBM to work on Mozilla, as is my team. Surprisingly,  that does not 
include
participating in this newsgroup or fixing a single bug that is reported by anyone on 
this newsgroup
or even fixing bugs in Bugzilla. We do this part because we are trying to support the 
OS/2 community.

But it seems like I am discovering the same thing that I discovered when I tried to 
participate in
the newsgroups while working on Netscape 4.x.

The OS/2 user community is mostly about taking and very little about giving.

No wonder OS/2 is dead.

My next post will be a constructive post about how to help us find problems.

Mike Kaply

These are MY opinions. Not IBM


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