FireFox & ThunderBird a must!

[Hunkah]

I don't know if you all have tried to use these programs yet, but in my opinion they kick hoss! I have been loyal to IE for many, many years. But have been converted. It just needs some google buttons. (It does have the search though!)

I just started using Incredimail over the past few months and didn't think linux would have a good browser or email client. Now that I have used them on Windows, I think that anyone that uses these programs will agree. They are great!!! I only have one complaint. Thunderbird needs a cute little animated window in the top right hand corner telling us that our messege is received, like Incredimail does. It is just a fun thing to watch!

[aay]

Yes these are nice, but Mozilla Mail will pretty much do everything these do and integrates a bit better with Mozilla imho. I suspect that they won't be added since there is simply no more room on the cd and it's unlikely that Klaus would remove Mozilla Mail in order to mail room. As far as Incredimail goes....yuck.

[CatamountJack]

I have been a loyal mozilla user since about Milestone16, but have been using Firefox almost exclusively since it was first renamed to Firebird from Phoenix. I find Firefox loads much faster, has a lot more extensions and themes available, and is generally much nicer to use than Mozilla. The same is true for Thunderbird IMHO.... the only thing I find lacking is the integration between the two and the lack of standalone "Composer" application. I definitely vote for Firefox/Thunderbird!

[FuzzieBio]

I use both of those in tandem at school. But at home I just stick with Mozilla, that way I only need to remember one name :lol: (Firebird becomes FireFox, what the hell?)

[c123]

Got Mozilla, FireThing and Opera installed on my machine at work. Find myself using FireThing more and more - although there are still a few things I really miss from Opera.

Unfortunately IE is still needed to view some sites (both internal and external)...

Anyway, I do hope FireThing gets included soon. As for Thunderbird, never used it, have to use Outlook :((

[FuzzieBio]

Ugh, I hate outlook :?

[arkaine23]

Added both to the Overclockx 3.4 (http://overclockix.octeams.com).

[Hunkah]

I have been noticing that FireFox is getting more and more popular everyday. There are reviews and people shouting its name on sites all over the place. IE has finally found a threat.

[probono]

I have been noticing that FireFox is getting more and more popular everyday. There are reviews and people shouting its name on sites all over the place. IE has finally found a threat.

And you can install it with just a klik on http://klik.berlios.de/ - even if running Knoppix from CD...

[Hunkah]

Yes, I know, you have posted this about 15 times on all the other threads. Most of us read more than one thread, so you don't have to re-post it that many times. I think it gets people really mad, to the point where you will be flogged.

[FuzzieBio]

I have been noticing that FireFox is getting more and more popular everyday. There are reviews and people shouting its name on sites all over the place. IE has finally found a threat.Mozilla itself has long been a threat to MSIE. The only prob is only the computer elite know of it :P
Only reason I found out about it and started using it is because of an artice in the news. I sure am glad I saw that article...

[Hunkah]

Actually, I think this is a different thing all together. FireFox and ThunderBird have something that Mozilla Suite didn't. A Nice GUI! I have been a long, long, long supporter of IE, mostly because of the ease of use and it didn't crash as much as Netscape. I was never so happy to get rid of another program than I was with Netscape. I loved killing it so much my right eye was twitching.

Now... FireFox! Nice, clean, easy to use, customizable! The best feature is "open all in tabs" when you catagorize the bookmarks. I had to use a seperate program with IE called IE Quickstart. But it is limited to only 5 folders of about twenty links in each. This is virtually unlimited in both!

I never thought of Mozilla as an IE threat because it was too much like netscape. We all know that netscape is dead. Many times it even seemed that Mozilla = Netscape. But this... FireFox seems to be the new kid at school that has all the cool toys... Everyone wants to be his friend!

[j.drake]

I've been using Firefox/Thunderbird on W$ for probably 6 months now, and I love them. The ad blocking in Fireforx is really good, and there is an additional plugin that makes it even better. Plugins have been a bit of a pain in Firefox and its predecessors, so make sure that you accept default directories and registry patches as necessary (in W$). This may be why some of you had problems on some websites. With more recent versions, it doesn't seem so difficult to get Flash and and Shockwave to play nice. Also, I've fornd that some ad-intensive sites (e.g., mail.com, Wired magazine) apparently have the graphics for some of their navigation buttons originate from the same domains as their ads. The consequence, of course, is that if your ad blocker becomes too effective at blocking their revenue source, it becomes very difficult to navigate their sites (birdy dastards!!). Tough to get to your mail when the folder has been rendered invisible by your own ad blocker (unless you've memorized the location). Thunderbird is much better than Outlook or Outlook Express, but I haven't figured out how to have it alert me when I've received mail.

I strongly support the idea of substituting Firefox and Tbird for the normal Mozilla.

[rottenrhyma]

There is an extention to Thunderbird that puts an icon in the "system tray" (bottom right next to time) when new mail is received. I think this may be what you were looking for in regards to how to have the program notify you of new mail.

Cheers

[j.drake]

Oh, gotta' have that!! Where is it??