Hi Folks,
Some questions about Mozilla vs Firefox & Thunderbird.
Mozilla is an integrated web software suite: browser, mail client, Web page (HTML) editor.
Firefox is a web browser (supposed to have HTML editor as well but I couldn't find one in the firefox I recently downloaded).
Thunderbird is an email client.
Details of all three at http://www.mozilla.org/products
For Firefox and Thunderbird, the above website emphasizes enhanced security available in each. Security is not mentioned in the description of Mozilla.
It also recommends that, rather than go for Mozilla, one should go for Firefox + Thunderbird. It is stated that Mozilla is not a combination of Firefox + Thunderbird.
This leaves me somewhat pondering what the pros and cons may be.
There's some advantage, in princple, in having it all rolled into one (as in Mozilla). On the other hand, if there's a distinct security advantage in FF + TB, then that's very tempting.
But I have some concern that I couldn't find a Web Page editor in Firefox: as a browser, it seems to have less in it than Mozilla does.
It also seems that the download size of Mozilla (12MB) is much less than Firefox (8MB) + Thunderbird (10MB). So if space were an issue, then Moz might be prefereable to FF + TB. On the other hand, the extra space may represent extra and valuable functionality.
Any comments?
Thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted.
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