On Sun, 26 May 2019 08:57:17 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

"David E. Ross" on Sat, 25 May 2019 21:32:47
-0700 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On 5/25/2019 8:06 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Paul on Sat, 25 May 2019 20:57:08 -0400 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Yikes on Sat, 25 May 2019 14:32:34 -0700 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
Danm thing clogs up my access to even just typing into the email
composer !!!
mozilla is junk software ! but that is what I have.
On my Win XP Pro laptop.
NEVER going to later Win cause I have NO money to throw away at M$.

Quite honestly, that's not he only program I wish I had a "shut up
and sit down" button.

Source is available.

It can't be that hard to fix, can it ? :-/

Hard for who?

I mean, everything is within walking distance, if you keep at it
long enough.

The problem are the programs without source code.

Thunderbird is open source, which means the source code is available.

While Open Source is a wonder thing, there still remains the small
detail that it is really only "open" to those who know the language
exceedingly well. E.G., If I publish the source code for "NukeDet" (A
program I wrote to calculate the effects of nuclear weapons), but you
don't "read" Pascal, sure it is "open source" but is it accessible to
you? (I'll leave out the issue of finding a Pascal compiler.)

If it's Free Pascal, try Lazarus. Which is open-source and
compiles itself, if you want.

The second issue is having the time to reproduce the "find the
issue, fix it, compile, test, find the new error, fix that one."lather
rinse, repeat". I have a "simple" batch file which copies files from
selected directories on Drive1 to Drive2. But it took an hour or more
to make the latest revision which works with the Win7 file structure,
communicate correctly with the XP file structures. And then later,
discovering that I had deleted as "unnecessary" in the target
directory tree, and so the email, browser and CAD datafiles were all
copied to the same directory. Ooops. Good thing I didn't need those.
"Someday" I am going to have to add traps for errors into that thing.

However, this cannot be a simple problem to fix. The bug report was
submitted 15 years ago and still has not been fixed. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239616.

"These things take time". B-)

They could take the code from the go-offline function and put
it in the STOP function. Minus the actual "go-offline", of course.

Maybe by examining the code from an early, small version they
can spot the "if then" that didn't "then".

Open-source is great for small programs. You can change a lot
of stuff, specially if it's nicely commented. But most popular
programs (Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice) have become mastodons.
They need a big team to maintain.
[]'s

Take a look at the major bug in the Forte Agent newsreader, all
temporary filters expired in June of last year.
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