Mac Forum / Applications / Firefox / Mozilla / November 2003

I am a great fan of Mozilla. It is a truly exceptional piece of software
and a fantastic example of how great open-source can be. However, there
are problems for people running newer versions with older OSs. Mozilla
claims to be compatable with all versions of OS X but I get the
impression that when bugs are reported (eg #221115 & #223392) developers
are unable to reproduce them because they are using Jaguar/Panther. Also
there are fewer 10.1.5 users, so there is less chance that a reported
bug will be confirmed by some one else. If there are any other 10.1.5
users reading this, perhaps we could push our heads together and share
our frustrations? Or is there only me? (Actually I've just upgraded to
Panther but kept the older OS for testing purposes.)

The worst example of this 10.1.5 blindness is the release of Mozilla 1.5
without a warning. It was known that 1.5 repeatedly crashed under 10.1.5
(bugs #213639 & #218936) so why weren't users warned to stay away and
use 1.4.1? Anybody downloading 1.5 could be put off Mozilla for life?
That would be sad.

And now that latest test version 1.6a trashes all bookmarks in 10.1.5...