For nr (1), have a look at bug 95977.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95977
/Magnus
Michael A. Koenecke wrote:
> A couple of things I haven't seen discussed:
>
> 1) Mozilla's faulty Registry association. If I am sent a hyperlink in an
> e-mail and click on it to invoke Mozilla, Mozilla tries to find the Web
> site "1" (no quotes) in *one* window, which eventually gives me a "This
> page could not be opened" error message, then opens the correct URL in
> *another* window eventually.
>
> 2) Mozilla's iffy FTP handling. Most of the time, when clicking on a
> link to a file, Mozilla simply stalls trying to download the file, while
> Internet Explorer 5 (which, of course, I'm hoping eventually to exorcise
> from my system) handles the file just fine.
>
> Any thoughts? System: Athlon 1 gig., 512 MB RAM*, Windows 2000 Pro.
>
> * If you don't have this much you oughta, considering how dirt cheap the
> stuff is now.
>
