Just a few questions I had, prob'ly deserves a flame because I don't spend enough time in the Newsgroups, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
Not to toot the Devil's horn too much, but will the future NS/Mozilla work with the mail notification on the Windows XP user login screen (where it says a user has x number of messages on y account). I read somewhere that Windows lets people add to this functionality, so maybe Mozilla/NS could? In mail, will it inform me that I have message in the taskbar? Will it be an email icon or a little green arrow on the Netscape quicklaunch icon? How will it work exactly? Stay there until all my messages are read, go away once I open Netscape Mail, etc.? Will it function correctly when all my browser/mail windows are closed? That is, when everything is closed still check all my accounts every few minutes, download the message, and display a mail icon (I have a cable connection so I don't mind it checking it every few minutes 24 hours a day). Will newsgroups allow to you watch a thread, being able to highlight it? I noticed that Netscape seems to automatically check the newsgroups and download headers when the mail program is launched, will it highlight the newsgroup if there are new messages to the watched thread (again, not to toot the Devil's horn with OE). I probably shouldn't say too many of my other quirks about the mail program because I've occasionally looked at the updates on the mozilla.org site and there's always TONS of bugs fixed in the mail dept. (no pun intended)... I'll just hope that everything else gets cleaned up in the end. Will there (finally) be some themes coming out more often after 1.0? Maybe it's me, but the modern color scheme looks kinda drab compared to the high contrasting colors of XP. I know it's extremely low-priority Netscape side stuff, but regarding Netscape Messenger, will some halfway decent features be included, like changing the font size/color, making the window actually display all the icons without resizing it, allowing the icons to be displayed, allowing file transfer, and, well, overall have a cleaner interface? Also some wishes is that I can "Appear Offline" or go "Invisible"... or atleast see who's online when my Away message is up! That's about the only readon I use MSN Messenger at this point. But then again, I have to use good ol' AIM half the time anyway because MSN Messenger file transfer doesn't work over a Linksys (NAT) firewall. Yeesh! Also, will the quicklaunch button ever feature any Mesenger links? Maybe a quick menu to show who's online when you roll over it, then being able to send them a message when you click on their name, or perhaps a menu to choose your status (i.e. Appear Offline, Invisible, Away, whatever). Is there something that will ever be done to not having Java included in the recommended download? And after I do go through that process, it taking FOREVER to load for one page and then staying there for the rest of eternity eating up my RAM unless I shut the browser down completely? Will it be able to integrate all of the streaming players, Real, Windows Media, or whatever. It already does quicktime rather well, doesn't it? Will there be a way to lock the width of the tabs pane? One of the things that annoys me is that it is awkward to use (so usually I don't. If I click on it and hit the wrong angle, I move the layout width or miss the incredibly small hit area and mess up my layout and have to fix it. Um... I think that's about all of the questions I have. I know most of the work now is on fixing what's broken and not adding new features. I've just been sticking with the Netscape 6 project since Preview Release 1 and I'm getting a little anxious to get this awesome browser I was promised. Heck, I wouldn't mind paying for it and reimbursing the programmers if the features were there. I'm not anti-Netscape or anti-Microsoft, I just want a better browsing experience than both offer at present. I'll be honest though, I'm quite anxious to see the release of Netscape 6.3, or, even more so, 6.5. Good day! Thanks guys and gals! Best regards, Kenneth P.S. Oh yeah while I'm at it, I've heard mention of a big "favicon.ico issue" I know favicons are the little graphics that appear next to the address bar, but what is the issue exactly?
