mozilla.org is one of the most often updated open source project, the programmers even made daily build to iron out the bugs and improve features/performance. Still something puzzled me since after 1.0 release.
mozilla.org 1.0 is very stable, and relatively bug free. Since then there are 1.1 alpha, 1.1 beta, and now 1.1 release. Usually one will suppose features that work doesn't break in later version. In my experience, however, this is not true.
a) In 1.1 beta, I find that I can't export my bookmark - exporting bookmark will save nothing. I report this to bugzilla, and they have replied of a fix within couple hours. Strangely, this function _works_ in 1.0 release.
b) All through the 1.1 branch (including 1.1 release), I found that there are some webpage rendering with garbage shown up, check out this website: http://www.bluesnews.com/ , scroll down the page and you can see garbage somewhere. However again this bug does _not_ exist in 1.0 release. Again I reported this to bugzilla and they have the record this bug is filed back when 2002 March (before 1.0 release on June), so I wonder, did someone fix it in 1.0 release but others managed to break it in 1.1, or 1.1 is simply not based on 1.0... or some magic is not working here?
c) I caught it from another user posting at mozillazine.org, check out this page
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
"With Moz 1.1 the background (the astronaut) doesnt scoll properly. It did with Mozilla 1.0."
I understand though mozilla.org is a huge and ambitious project, but these phenomena concerned me. Perhaps it happened a lot with other open source projects, anyway I hope they can get it fixed eventually.
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You can check out ALSA project for sound support.
http://www.alsa-project.org/
For network card check out the Mandrake homepage for hardware compatibility list. Should work with most NIC.
mozilla.org is one of the most often updated open source project, the programmers even made daily build to iron out the bugs and improve features/performance. Still something puzzled me since after 1.0 release.
mozilla.org 1.0 is very stable, and relatively bug free. Since then there are 1.1 alpha, 1.1 beta, and now 1.1 release. Usually one will suppose features that work doesn't break in later version. In my experience, however, this is not true.
a) In 1.1 beta, I find that I can't export my bookmark - exporting bookmark will save nothing. I report this to bugzilla, and they have replied of a fix within couple hours. Strangely, this function _works_ in 1.0 release.
b) All through the 1.1 branch (including 1.1 release), I found that there are some webpage rendering with garbage shown up, check out this website: http://www.bluesnews.com/ , scroll down the page and you can see garbage somewhere. However again this bug does _not_ exist in 1.0 release. Again I reported this to bugzilla and they have the record this bug is filed back when 2002 March (before 1.0 release on June), so I wonder, did someone fix it in 1.0 release but others managed to break it in 1.1, or 1.1 is simply not based on 1.0... or some magic is not working here?
c) I caught it from another user posting at mozillazine.org, check out this page
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
"With Moz 1.1 the background (the astronaut) doesnt scoll properly. It did with Mozilla 1.0."
I understand though mozilla.org is a huge and ambitious project, but these phenomena concerned me. Perhaps it happened a lot with other open source projects, anyway I hope they can get it fixed eventually.