Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?
Ed Mullen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Ron Hunter wrote: > Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote: > >> Ed Mullen wrote: >> >>> Daniel Wagner wrote: >>> >>>> Flatfoot wrote: >>>> >>>>> They seem to be pushing Firefox over Mozilla for some reason, so I >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The reason I prefer using a combination of Firefox and Thunderbird >>>> is their compactness. There is much less so-called "feature bloat", >>>> because they are stripped down to the very basics. Any additional >>>> features can be added by installing extensions. Mozilla, on the >>>> other hand, comes with everything, including a number of >>>> applications that I currently don't use and probably never will >>>> use. (For example, there is bundled a web-authoring program and an >>>> IRC client, as well as a few other things.) The result is a >>>> smaller, faster program that is more closely tailored to my personal >>>> uses. >>>> >>>> ~d >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Small note: the IRC client (Chatzilla) can be not installed when >>> choosing the Custom installation. >>> >>> As for me, I prefer the Suite and the integration. I rarely use the >>> Composer component but it does come in handy once in a while. Mostly >>> I compose my Web pages using a plain-text editor. But I do forget >>> some little-used HTML tags and I can use Composer to quickly gen up >>> something and then "steal" the code. Very handy. >>> >>> The footprint of the Suite and the FF/TB combo is not all that >>> different. The memory footprint difference, likewise, is not not >>> large and, in my opinion, not terribly significant on a modern system >>> with a large hard drive and (the typical) 512 Mb of RAM. >>> >>> To each his own. >>> >> A man after my own heart. I have both Mozilla and FireFox. I use >> Mozilla 99.999% of the time. >> >> That .001% of the time for FireFox I use it just when I need to view >> an item on a website really fast and intend to just turn on computer >> just for this purpose and then shut down again as soon as I through. >> >> For me there is exactly no difference >> > My sentiments, exactly, only exactly the opposite. My computers, except > for the laptop, are always ON. > I find Mozilla Suite to be like working with gloves, compared to FF. Ain't it nice to have such choices? !!! ;-) -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net http://edmullen.net/moz.html