Re: A sad day for trolls...

2002-03-11 Thread Randall Parker
Kyle, On the day when AOL releases software to their end-users uses Mozilla Gecko will you go away and stop trolling here? On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:43:40 GMT esteemed Netscape Basher did hold forth thusly: Blake Ross typed: A browser shift by AOL is going to leave an awful lot of companies

Re: More reasons not to download Netscape 6.2.1 - wait until next release!!

2002-03-09 Thread Randall Parker
On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 23:35:25 GMT esteemed Netscape Basher did hold forth thusly: a whole bunch of snipped complaints Well Basher Bundy, my suggestion is that you don't use NS 6.21 and stop complaining about it. I think Moz is maturing very nicely. Since about Moz v0.97 I've found it is a

Some bookmarks unresponsive to mouse clicks on latest nightlies

2002-02-19 Thread Randall Parker
Running NT4 SP6a. I upgraded from v0.98 to the latest Win32 nighties in pub/mozilla/nightly/2002-02-18-06-trunk and then many (but not all) of the bookmarks were unresponsive to left or right clicks. I then tried backing up 1 day and then even further back to 2002021510. Still the same problem.

Re: Close Tab and Close Window keys are too close

2002-02-10 Thread Randall Parker
On Sat, 09 Feb 2002 12:12:53 +0100 esteemed Jonas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgensen?= did hold forth thusly: That would be a nice solution. ...which is exactly what http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 is about. See the comment I posted in that bug listing some ways to deal with

Re: Close Tab and Close Window keys are too close

2002-02-08 Thread Randall Parker
On 8 Feb 2002 06:01:39 GMT esteemed DeMoN LaG did hold forth thusly: Middle click the tab, use File, Close Tab, or click the X on the right side of the screen that closes tabs. I don't want the overhead of moving my hand to the mouse, moving the mouse to the X and then clicking it. I want

Re: Close Tab and Close Window keys are too close

2002-02-08 Thread Randall Parker
On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 12:44:08 +0200 esteemed George Lefter did hold forth thusly: how about a confirmation dialog box when quitting? and a checkbox somewhere in Edit-Preferences to enable/disable it That would be a nice solution.

Re: Excessive bugs mean Mozilla's death!

2002-02-07 Thread Randall Parker
Reported bugs can be going up while total bugs are going down. Just because they are getting reported now doesn't mean they didn't exist a year or two earlier. In my own experience Mozilla is progressing incredibly well. It runs continuously 24x7 for me for days. I rarely shut down my

Re: Moral high ground?

2002-02-01 Thread Randall Parker
On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 13:15:14 -0500 esteemed Nigel L did hold forth thusly: Many will be aware of a war being waged by AOL against an alternative chat/messaging client. This is at the same time AOL launches legal proceedings for anti-competitive practices... Well, they are funding an open

Re: Oh god, what is this BS on Tech TV?

2002-02-01 Thread Randall Parker
I misread your subject title and thought it said B5 as in Babylon 5. Who cares about the fools that complain? My advice is tell all your friends to use Mozilla, send them a link to a download page, and doing that will do more to help the situation than complaining about foolish commentators.

Tab feature improvement suggestions

2002-01-26 Thread Randall Parker
Maybe there is already a way to do one or two of these and I just don't know about it: 1) A qualified click (eg Ctrl-Shift-Click is what Opera uses) that will open a new URL in a new tab and NOT give that new tab focus. 2) Have Moz save all the current tab URLs and then be able to exit and

Re: Tab feature improvement suggestions

2002-01-26 Thread Randall Parker
On 27 Jan 2002 05:29:48 GMT esteemed DeMoN LaG did hold forth thusly: 1) A qualified click (eg Ctrl-Shift-Click is what Opera uses) that will open a new URL in a new tab and NOT give that new tab focus. Edit, Preferences, Navigator, Tabbed Browsing, Load links in background Yeah, I get

Any way to select text and get embedded URLs copied into paste buffer?

2001-11-15 Thread Randall Parker
Using Moz build 2001110703 build on NT4 SP6a. One thing I like about IE is that when one selects a piece of a page and then you paste the page into some other place it pastes in the URLs that were embedded in the copied text. Occasionally I see some URLs get copied over. But usually not ones

What are OTIS builds?

2001-11-02 Thread Randall Parker
I see in here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/ builds that are OTIS rather than trunk. What are they for?

Does anyone track Moz memory leakage trends?

2001-10-05 Thread Randall Parker
Is there any work done to try to track whether Mozilla's memory leakage is becoming better or worse and by how much? Is it desired by the testers and developers to find test cases to demonstrate memory leak causes? Or are there already enough such test cases? Anyone see that Moz's memory

Re: is mozilla stable?

2001-09-23 Thread Randall Parker
On 21 Sep 2001 08:47:32 GMT esteemed David Gerard did hold forth thusly: Definitely. Its main problem is that its arse is incredibly fat - takes a bucket of memory and CPU, and leaks memory horribly (much less than previously, though). Nevertheless, it's my primary browser. I agree about the

Re: Moz focus grabbing: what do you think?

2001-06-27 Thread Randall Parker
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:48:58 + (UTC) esteemed [EMAIL PROTECTED] did hold forth thusly: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77675 Brandon, Thanks for the URL. I just added my vote and encourage others to do likewise.

linuxtoday.com is crashing Moz 0.9.1

2001-06-08 Thread Randall Parker
Anyone else want to verify this? I'm running NT4 SP6a. If I start up Moz and then go directly to http://linuxtoday.com it does not crash. But if go to, for instance. http://www.theinquirer.net/ and http://www.theregister.co.uk/ and open a bunch of windows (about 15 will do it - right click

Ad URLs showing up on recently daily builds

2001-05-27 Thread Randall Parker
Anyone else noticed how advertisement URls have been showing up in the URL window instead of the correct URL for the page? I'm guessing that the various other links within a page are being put in the URL window as they are loaded. Or maybe Javascript page shifting that is done beneath the

Re: MTBF of nightlies approaching zero

2001-05-19 Thread Randall Parker
On Thu, 17 May 2001 13:25:07 -0700 esteemed Jeffrey W. Baker did'st hold forth thusly: Am I the only one who finds the nightlies unusable? I download them faithfully, but they crash within a few moments of launch. I've reverted to 0.9 with galeon... They work well for me in most cases.

Re: Latest Nightlies Are Unusable - Crashed All Over the Place

2001-05-19 Thread Randall Parker
On Thu, 17 May 2001 20:10:55 +0200 esteemed Peter Lairo did'st hold forth thusly: sorry about the caps, but i'm hoping on getting some attention to this matter - and trying to see if others are having similar problems ;) Peter, What does Latest Nightlies mean? For me at this moment that

Recent builds xpcom.dll proc entry point not found

2001-05-13 Thread Randall Parker
Running NT4 Sp6a. For the last several days I've been getting an error on start-up for Moz daily builds. I just tried the latest one 2001051308 for today and ditto: The procedure entry point?IndexOf@nsStringArray@@QBEHABV?$basic_nsAReadableString@G@@@Z could not be located in in the

Re: Recent builds xpcom.dll proc entry point not found

2001-05-13 Thread Randall Parker
On Sun, 13 May 2001 23:39:16 +0200 esteemed Fabian Guisset did'st hold forth thusly: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71010 The only way to make this bug disappear currently is to 1) Uninstall Mozilla using the uninstall panel of Windows (standard Add/Remove Program procedure)

Re: NS6 vs Moz0.8 CPU usage

2001-03-11 Thread Randall Parker
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:40:28 -0500 esteemed NeTDeMoN did'st hold forth thusly: Why don't you upgrade to NS6.01? My guess is that it is behind Moz 0.8. I'm currently running a post Moz 0.8 daily build from Thurs Mar 8 2001. Running the daily builds is fun. See:

Re: How are you folks upgrading to new builds?

2001-02-27 Thread Randall Parker
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:29:16 -0600 esteemed Steve did'st hold forth thusly: I frequently play around with new builds of Mozilla on Linux, MacOS, and Win9x systems. I would delete or rename the old Mozilla folder, unpack a newer build in its place, and let the new build access the same user

NS6 vs Moz0.8 CPU usage

2001-02-17 Thread Randall Parker
I just took Netscape v6 and Moz v0.8 thru the exact same series of web pages. Netscape v6 used 21 CPU seconds and Moz v0.8 used 16 seconds. It appears from this result that Moz 0.8 uses about 3/4 the CPU that NS 6 uses.

Moz 0.8 Nav toolbar missing URL subwindow

2001-02-16 Thread Randall Parker
Just installed Moz 0.8 on NT4 SP6a. Brought it up and it is snappy and stable. However, the Nav Toolbar does not show the URL of the current page. That part of the toolbar is just solid grey with no sign that a control is supposed to go there. View|Toolbars has all 3 toolbars in the list

Re: Moz 0.8 Nav toolbar missing URL subwindow

2001-02-16 Thread Randall Parker
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:45:19 -0800 esteemed Randall Parker did'st hold forth thusly: Just installed Moz 0.8 on NT4 SP6a. Brought it up and it is snappy and stable. However, the Nav Toolbar does not show the URL of the current page. That part of the toolbar is just solid grey with no sign