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That stopped working yesterday. I can no longer connect to hotmail to send mail with port 587 in eudora 7.
Well, this is interesting. I had ssl required, alternate port selected. That’s what stopped working.

Now I have required, starttls selected and that works. But the previous setting worked for years. They made a change, in the last couple of days. But I don’t think they know it.

Firefox is largely broken in multiple ways.
The password manager is terribly unreliable.
I have put test cases on Bugzilla about it and all the defensive fighting I got was unbelievable.
Different wrong opinions. Certain people disagree about it being broken, though I proved the problem.
No one in charge ready to make an executive decision. To fix things. Users get frustrated when things don’t work the way they expect them to work.

Firefox is starting to really show that it’s being written by hundreds of different people.
No one strong in charge. It’s like Linux in that respect.

I have put in bug reports that are now over 5 years old. Never worked on by anyone. The bugs are still there.

Security issues too, often caused by Adobe Flash, it’s nearly impossible to update that often enough. But Firefox has it’s own security problems.

The best things about Firefox are obviously the extensions, some of which are so good they keep me using a largely defective browser.
Adblock is the main one. That thing is the bomb. If IE had that I would just use IE.

If Firefox is going to progress and be a force in the future someone is going to have to take responsibility for things. Decide how things are going to work and how they are not going to work. Override the volunteer developers objections when it’s necessary for survival of the project.