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the problem with netscape and the mozilla organization is their testing philosophy (or lack of). i really don't think they have any full time testers, and rely on the public to do it. that is why you have 1000 different versions of mozilla, then you have to report bugs.
i won't even go into the problems with bug reporting, but suffice it to say that the bug reporting process has bugs.
so, what is wrong with this you ask? well, you get thousands of people, mostly the self-proclaimed "power users", all reporting on the same 10 bugs which are all so obvious that a single tester given 5 minutes would have seen it. once in a while, you get someone who actually reports some hidden malicious bug, but certainly not often. so, they get thousands of bugs, they probably ignore all but 20 bugs, because they inevitably show up in the next release.
that said, yes, i unfortunately do use communicator / mozilla / phoenix / firebird / firefox, whatever it is fashionably called now.
that is my rant. sorry, but i just read an article on this and had to say something.
AS
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