Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

Ed Mullen wrote:
> Ron Hunter wrote:
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>> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote:
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>>> Ed Mullen wrote:
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>>>> Daniel Wagner wrote:
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>>>>> Flatfoot wrote:
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>>>>>> They seem to be pushing Firefox over Mozilla for some reason, so I
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> ~d
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>>>> Small note:  the IRC client (Chatzilla) can be not installed when 
>>>> choosing the Custom installation.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> To each his own.
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>>> A man after my own heart. I have both Mozilla and FireFox. I use 
>>> Mozilla 99.999% of the time.
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>>> 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.
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>>> For me there is exactly no difference
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>> 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.
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> Ain't it nice to have such choices?  !!!  ;-)
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Indeed it is.  That's why we have Ford and Chevrolet, and Toyota and Honda.