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Geek Culture / Mozilla suite brower/email: Need opinions

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Guyon
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Posted: 4th Jan 2006 02:28 Edited at: 4th Jan 2006 03:43
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I am thinking of switching over to the Mozilla suite using their browsers and email. Any remarks for or against are appreciated.
It is supped to me much more secure and more feature rich.
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TKF15H
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Posted: 4th Jan 2006 04:30
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Since it's free and a small download, I recommend you give them a try and have a look. I use Firefox and never had problems with it, but it doesn't seem to work so well on my dad's computer. People on this forum have complained about their bookmarks missing or something, but it's never happend to me. I say go for it.

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JoelJ
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Use Firefox and Thunderbird, NOT mozilla, firefox is by FAR much better

and you can also find a plugin for thunderbird that will let you minimize it to the Notification Area (next to the clock), much better there

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IanG
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Posted: 4th Jan 2006 10:25
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Quote: " Use Firefox and Thunderbird, NOT mozilla, firefox is by FAR much better"


i have to agree - i've been using them both since they came into existance and no problems yet


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Guyon
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Posted: 4th Jan 2006 14:48 Edited at: 4th Jan 2006 14:54
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Quote: "Use Firefox and Thunderbird, NOT mozilla, firefox is by FAR much better"


Why is that Joel? I am still looking at both, Why do you like the separate packages better? Can you explain your comment?
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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Firebird doesn't feature things like calenders or appointments unfortunately.

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Guyon
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WOW I just found out there are two very stong camps for Mozilla vs Firefox & Thunderbird. Lots of interesting reading.

I am leaning towards Firefox & Thunderbird.

For anyone interested here are the best Firefox plugins:
http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/12/50-best-firefox-extensions-for-power.html
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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Firefox & Thunderbird are the best options for security, stability and compatibility. Unfortunatel theres an annoying bug where your accounts are suddenly not recognised (ie all your inbox, favourites etc suddenly dissapear) but its easwy enough to get them back it doesn't actually delete them


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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Yes, they are pretty good

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Guyon
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Thank you all.
Firefox seem to work great. I just installed the google bar with spell checker and looking at the other plug-ins.
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Posted: 18th Jan 2006 20:35
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Firefox - have a look at these plugins:
Forecastfox
Wizz RSS News Reader
Download Statusbar
Full Screen
SearchPluginHacks

I'd reconsider the Google Bar as you may have security issues with it.
Thunderbird is a very suitable replacement to Outlook Express.
As for other day-to-day software, you might also like to take a look at 'OpenOffice 2.0' http://www.openoffice.org/. This is an excellent office suite & also free.

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