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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(Ted Harding) wrote: snip
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.
Browsers are not really expected to compose html - some do but not very well. if you want to write html you would probably be better off with a dedicated app like Bluefish or Quanta.
Ian
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 08:59:54PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
(Ted Harding) wrote: snip
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.
Browsers are not really expected to compose html - some do but not very well. if you want to write html you would probably be better off with a dedicated app like Bluefish or Quanta.
It depends why you are wanting to write HTML.
The 'composer' in mozilla is a descendent of the original Netscape one but has improved considerably on the way. It can be very useful (and easy) for composing single pages of HTML. We use it at work in particular for allowing users (who may well not be familiar with HTML) to be given a template HTML file which they can then edit and save. It's ideal for development documentation etc.
Re: Firefox v. Mozilla I mostly use Firefox now, it feels 'cleaner' and a bit quicker than Mozilla, the differences aren't all that great yet though.
The theory is that Mozilla development will wind down and most of the effort will go into Firefox and Thunderbird. However I seem to remember Mozilla was originally going to stop at version 1.5 and we're at 1.7 now!
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