What do I like about Netscape? Nothing at all.
I saw that Netscape 6pr2 was out today. I'm waiting for a huge disk copy to complete so that I can put my router back together (just installed a 45GB drive to hold all my MP3s -- legal MP3s, mind you; I own each and every CD!), so I figured that I'd get the latest mozilla and give it a whirl.
I downloaded it, and it was surprisingly small (45k .tgz file). Expanded it, and it makes a subdir with "netscape-installer" in it. I ran it. Brings up a little GUI. I clicked on the required buttons, and clicked on "Install" to start the process.
A window pops up with a progress bar in it, and Something starts happening. It claims to download some stuff, but then dies horribly. After trying this several times with identical results, I finally got "./netscape-installer: line 48: 21437 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ./netscape-installer-bin --sync" and a friendly core file. Whoops. I must have something setup wrong. Check the README file. It directs me to the release notes on in netscape.com.
I was amazed to see in the release notes:
Currently the installation causes a segmentation fault, but the installation is successful and Netscape 6 can be run.
What morons do they have working at Netscape thinking that releasing an installer that they know to seg fault is a Good Thing? Additionally, they clearly don't understand why it is seg faulting, however, because netscape certainly didn't install on my machine, and I can't run it.
A truly amateur performance from the folks at Netscape. I'm reminded of the mantra of many freshmen and sophomores, "well, it finally compiled, so it must be right!"