Re: [MLUG] Mozilla versus firefox/thunderbird

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:56:46 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> This is for Linux/FreeBSD.  I use mozilla for my web browsing and email.
> But I here about firefox and thunderbird.  Is there any advantage to
> using one over the other?  What does firefox or thunderbird have that
> mozilla doesn't have?

Well, I guess the three word answer would be "a brighter future". 
Mozilla was a kitchen sink project, while Firefox and Thunderbird are
targeted at more specific problems.  I never used Mozilla for email,
so I can't comment on that, but Firefox is generally faster and has a
smaller memory footprint than Mozilla.  But more important than that,
I think the Mozilla Foundation is focussing development effort on
Firefox and Thunderbird, so that's where you should see more
improvements and bug fixes down the line (for the best-supported
platforms).

Firefox is quite impressive, in my opinion.  I do a lot of work on a
Mac, and the default browser there is Safari, another very good
browser.  But Firefox would be the only thing I would ever use if it
weren't for a few oddball issues that it still has.  (Refreshes in
gmail can be incomplete, my default window size now (for some reason)
doesn't let me see the status bar, and I can't get that fixed
easily...little things.)

jking


jking
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