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[Christopher Blizzard]

Karl DeBisschop wrote:

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>>Agreed.  Also, firebird and thunderbird haven't reached 1.0 yet.
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>Neither has pam.
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>What's more, in this case many of the bugs are actually bugs against
>Gecko. So the difference between Mozilla 1.6 and FireBird's 0.8 may well
>be semantic. Or the Firebird team has a higher standard of quality.
>Surely that is a good thing.
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I'm not worried about the Gecko bits.  That's fine, sure.  I'm worried 
about them breaking things before 1.0 which they have been perfectly 
willing to do in the past:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/release-notes.html

*PLEASE NOTE: You should create a new profile for Mozilla Firebird 0.7*. 
To create a new profile, start Mozilla Firebird by running 
MozillaFirebird.exe -p and click on the "Create Profile" button.

*You must also delete your old Mozilla Firebird directory rather than 
just overwriting the files there.* Not doing so WILL result in problems 
and you should not file any bugs on Mozilla Firebird unless you've first 
done a clean install and tested on a new profile. As Mozilla Firebird 
stabilizes more this will not be necessary but until then these steps 
are absolutely necessary.

That's not acceptable to me, nor would I expect it to be for my users.

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>>And they don't even play nice together yet (you can't click on a link
>>in mail and have it open in the browser.)
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>If firebird is set up as your default browser in Gnome, clicking on the
>link in Evolution works fine.
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>The bigger problem might be that you can't click on a mailto: link and
>have it work. Firebird doesn't know about your Gnome prefernces in that
>regard. I assume the same is true in KDE.
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It's worse than that.  If you have firebird running and you click on a 
link in gnome, odds are that firebird will get the open event, and it 
can't handle those kinds of urls.  So your browser setup is busted.

--Chris

>Not sure what you mean by GRE
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This means that firebird, the embedding widget (aka epiphany), 
thunderbird and seamonkey (what most people call "Mozilla") all share 
the same runtime.  This means they all use the same disk image, etc.  
Lots of savings there.

>I think there are a lot of good points here. OTOH, firebird is the
>advertised direction that Mozilla.org is heading in, so I cite Fedora
>objective #5: Be on the leading edge of open source technology, by
>adopting and helping develop new features and version upgrades.
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>While I'm at it, #6 says: 'Emphasize usability and a "just works"
>philosophy in selecting default configuration and designing features'
>which could almost be a quote from the Firebird mission statement.
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Except for the fact that it doesn't always "just work."  (see above.)

--Chris

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