For you users of Mozilla:

Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox 1.0.6 (new releases, upgrade from v 1.0.5)
is now at http://www.mozilla.org/

Thunderbird 1.0.6 Release Notes
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thun...ase-notes.html

Firefox 1.0.6 Release Notes
http://www.mozilla.org/products/fire...ses/1.0.6.html

"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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The T'bird 1.0.6. seems fine, though I had to invoke it a few times in
order to get my extenstions to "register" properly.

The Firefox release referenced above has some stability problems and also
fails to unload itself properly from memory sometimes when you close it.
The 1.0.5 release had the same problem. I'm still using 1.0.4 because it
closes properly.

Verfied on two separate machines running different OS's.

Open sauce programming at its worst. :-(

"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
"HarryKrause" wrote in message
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The T'bird 1.0.6. seems fine, though I had to invoke it a few times in
order to get my extenstions to "register" properly.

The Firefox release referenced above has some stability problems and also
fails to unload itself properly from memory sometimes when you close it.
The 1.0.5 release had the same problem. I'm still using 1.0.4 because it
closes properly.

Verfied on two separate machines running different OS's.


Open sauce programming at its worst. :-(

Well, yeah. It is a bit out of control. But I prefer T'bird and Firefox to
IE and the MS mail programs, and I don;t much like the other browsers and
mail programs I've tried.

If you're such an expert snip

You don't have be an expert programmer to see that the Moz project is
missing certain procedures that are essential to ALL successful software
projects. There has never been any requirements gathering from users,
because they do not know who the users are. They *say* they do, based on
feedback they get through Bugzilla, but that's after the fact, and way too
late. There are no formal testing procedures, although they claim that the
user base (which is nebulous and ill-defined) is their test population.

There's a ton of "best practices" information available to anyone who
bothers to look for it. Regardless of its faults, Microsoft was among the
powers that helped formalize these practices. Some of the best authors on
the subject came out of MS. These people have almost god-like status among
real programmers, and there's a reason for it.