Mozilla 0.9.6 problem

[jeremy at itassist.net.au]

On 27 Nov, Damien Elmes wrote:

> i'm sorry to hear you've had bad experiences with mozilla, jeremy. i
> don't use it directly any more, but instead use galeon which uses
> mozilla's rendering technology, and it does a superb job. on the
> odd occasion when it does crash, your session is saved, and galeon
> will offer to resume where it left off - so no more lost URLs.

I've used Galeon a few times - like you say, it's very nice in some
regards.  I hope that project continues.  I did particularily like the
crash recovery.

> spoken to recommending it, or maybe your web browsing habits just come
> across sites which the majority of the userbase don't view on a
> regular basis.

I suspect you've found the problem there.  Linux sites tend to use well
formed HTML, but some sites are top-heavy with javascript and badly
formed HTML and custom tags.

 
> anyway, my point was that i don't think you should attribute this to
> malice. there's no plot to convince the world to use bad software; the
> flippant replies you receive about filing a bug report are probably
> just a case of "it works for me". 


I didn't assume malice, I was just a little suprised at having a 'true
believer' argument over a web browser.  Especially after we had a very
nice Haskell talk without anyone getting sensitive about programming
languages, the usual scene for a true believer fight.

My comment was essentially that Mozilla is still in a development
state, but that it keeps getting pushed as a fully developed web browser.



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