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What is the worst Mozilla distribution?

Beonex
10
48%
Beonex
11
52%
 
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The worst Mozilla distribution?

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What do you think the worst distribution is?
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for those who don't know, what is Beonix ?

sounds like a breakfast cereal :)
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Netcape 6 was the worst distribution
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Post by Stefan »

clav wrote:Netcape 6 was the worst distribution


I second that vote. There is no competition getting even close to beeing that FUBARed.
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hence the use of 'is' and not 'was' in the poll
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Netscape can be worse

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Netscape has proven to be able to produce much worse things like BenB ever can or will manage with Beonex.

Netscape has offered Netscape 6, and even e.g. 6.1 had some really bad things. I always defended Netscape for releasing the 6.x series because they had to release something. As a Mozilla distribution, also Netscape 6.x wasn't quite what we would have needed.

The worst thing I ever saw was Netscape 6.0 German. This localized distribution was nothing else than a mess. Lots of wrong, weak, and unuseable translations. The following releases grew a bit better, they caught the worst pieces, but even 7.0 has very bad translation in some obvious places. It goes that far, that a Mozilla and Netscape lover (Holger Metzger) even released a add-on German translation which corrects some of those obvious problems. Netscape German is and was the worst Mozilla distribution I ever saw.

Beonex always used the community-based, non-commercial, open source Mozilla German packs for their German localized distributions, and they always were better than the crap delivered by Netscape to German-speaking users.
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I fully agree with that - Netscape 6 (and maybe 7) is worse than Beonex!
Especially this advertising-stuff (tons of desktop-icons) sucks.
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I want to vote for Netscape
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se- wrote:Especially this advertising-stuff (tons of desktop-icons) sucks.


Er, where? Do you mean the two easily deletable icons for Mail/News and AIM?
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I like its web site how it says:
This version of Beonex Communicator bases on the source code of Mozilla 1.0.1.

0.8.1 has <a href="http://www.beonex.com/communicator/version/0.8/new.html">countless improvements</a> over the previous versions. And it list only 2 or 3 the rest are Mozilla improvements.
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bdeonline wrote:I like its web site how it says:
This version of Beonex Communicator bases on the source code of Mozilla 1.0.1.

0.8.1 has <a href="http://www.beonex.com/communicator/version/0.8/new.html">countless improvements</a> over the previous versions. And it list only 2 or 3 the rest are Mozilla improvements.


Well, yeah, Netscape does exactly the same.

Netscape 7, Beonex 0.8 both use Mozilla and as Enduse-Mozillas they can advertise the countless improvements.

I still don't understand why people jump on Beonex' (or Netscape's) throat each time a new version is released. Be happy that there are Enduser-Mozillas available! Mozilla is - at least offcially - not for endusers. Beonex provides a great alternative to Netscape and Mozilla for people who just want to _use_ a browser suite.

And besides, Ben is a very active Mozilla-developer, IIRC he is responsible for the view-mailbodies-as-plaintext options in Mozilla, so show at least a bit more gratitude.
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