Mozilla Mail 1.4 buggy?

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 13:54, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> > Rob,
> >
> > I agree with David Uhlman that it is critical to remove an earlier
> > version. Uninstalling Mozilla 1.3 via the Win2k control panel left some
> > DLLs in the mozilla.org folder which I needed to manually delete before
> > 1.4 would install.
> >
> > If you've found Mozilla 1.4 "to be the most stable" I'm curious why you
> > slammed it as "the buggiest mozilla that I have dealt with" in your
> > original post.
> >
> > Dennis Kibbe
>
> Just because an application does not crash does not mean that it is bug
> free. 1.4 I have found to be significantly faster and featured filled
> than earlier versions, however bugs are aparent in this version.
>

Of course, all software has bugs, that's a given. But since you didn't
say WHY Mozilla was "the buggiest mozilla" ever we had nothing to judge
whether it WAS in fact Mozilla that was causing the bugs.

I believe an application is innocent until PROVEN guilty. Example: a
while back I upgraded GNOME and suddenly it would lock up after a few
hours. Buggy software, you say? I was beginning to think so, but GNOME
wasn't to blame. At the same time I was trying out a firewall script
that, among other things, blocked packets to localhost which meant that
it broke some daemons that expected to communicate with my machine.
Remove the script and GNOME stopped misbehaving and I learned something
about writing firewall scripts.

We use Free/Open Source software with the understanding that it is a
work in progress and comes without warranty. Software developers like
nothing better that to get good, meaningful bug reports from users.
Simple saying "it's buggy" helps no one. Better that you put that
software aside and return to it later if you can't find a way to
contribute to helping fix the bugs.

Dennis Kibbe