Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:51:21PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > That would be a first, mozilla working great, you must have some heavy > machinerie. To my humble opinion mozilla is slow and the mailclient can > crash your entire system. not ? (please say NOT i've been really annoyed > with the w

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Greg Gilbert
In my experience, the mozilla installer is too unstable. Each time I've tried it it crashed. Greg * Rob VanFleet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:18:38AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > unless you have lots of users wanting to use mozilla, then you end up > > with X nu

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:18:38AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > unless you have lots of users wanting to use mozilla, then you end up > with X number of copies of this monster in /home. where X == the > number of users on the system. > > file permissions and the FHS exist for a reason, mozilla

RE: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Ray Percival
wich is a >really painfull thing to happen if you're using online documentation wich >you finally dug up > >-Original Message- >From: ray p [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:38 PM >To: Joris Lambrecht >Subject: Re: What's up with M

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Greg Gilbert
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Other than having to change to that directory, or at least give the path > to it, to run the program, it's not a problem using it. I generally just write a simple shell script that calls it with the full path and put it in /usr/local/bin. It works fine

RE: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 3:38 PM To: Joris Lambrecht Subject: Re: What's up with Mozilla That would be wrong. Maybe a bit on the slow side but more testing will solve that :) I have never once had the mailclient go south on me yet alone take down Debian. And

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:52:38AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > installing the tarball is pretty easy. For now, I'm > > > running 0.8 from the tarball available at mozilla.org > > > and it works great. > > Agreed ... it dumps everything into a single directory so keeping track > of where it'

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:43:32AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > It's a bit of a pig though, and I had to shut off http 1.1 in the debug > network menu to get it to stop sending me to the wrong websites. Hey, I've > been trying to get it to fire off acroread or xpdf when a pdf is seen,

RE: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Joris Lambrecht
ael P. Soulier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:44 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What's up with Mozilla On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:09PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > > As was said in another reply - packaging mozilla is hard. Howev

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > installing the tarball is pretty easy. For now, I'm > > running 0.8 from the tarball available at mozilla.org > > and it works great. Agreed ... it dumps everything into a single directory so keeping track of where it's installed files is not an issue. Every time you "upgrade" it, just remove

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:09PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > > As was said in another reply - packaging mozilla is hard. However, > installing the tarball is pretty easy. For now, I'm running 0.8 from > the tarball available at mozilla.org and it works great. It's a bit of a pig though,

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:09PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Greg Gilbert wrote: > > What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18, > > and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade > > to something more recent

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-27 Thread Greg Gilbert
* Aaron Brashears ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > installing the tarball is pretty easy. For now, I'm running 0.8 from > the tarball available at mozilla.org and it works great. I find the tarballs quite easy myself, I tend to use a nightly build. My problem is with the devel package. I prefer using

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Greg Gilbert wrote: > What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18, > and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade > to something more recent(Like 0.8). Has the package been orphaned or > something? As was said in

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 at 13:57:06 -0800, Forrest English wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > Greg Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18, > > >and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade > > >t

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-27 Thread Forrest English
but in 0.8, psm is built in, it's no longer seperate. i don't see whats so hard about making a package for mozilla unless he's compiling it himself... (and then, only hard drive space would be a problem). at this point i think it's ridiculous not to have a new one... m18 is really old by this

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
Greg Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18, >and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade >to something more recent(Like 0.8). Has the package been orphaned or >something? No, apparently he's busy polishing the 0

What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-27 Thread Greg Gilbert
What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18, and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade to something more recent(Like 0.8). Has the package been orphaned or something? Greg ps. If multiple copies come through I appologize.