Mozilla No Mo’
Change is hard. I’ve been a pretty faithful user of the full Mozilla suite on my home system. I liked the idea of having my browser and email application in the same package, rather than two different applications. Plus, having the built in HTML editor was kinda nice too.
Last week came news that there will be no further development on the full Mozilla suite. Development of the Mozilal suite, known (for some odd reason) as “Seamonkey“) will continue under an independent community of developers. I figured I’d hang in there, and even downloaded the most recent build, which worked fine until this morning, when it fried on me. Restarting fixed the problem, but it occured to me that I’d want more stability that a nightly build that might have bugs I’m not equipped to deal with.
So, this morning I downloaded and installed the newest versions of Thurderbird and Firefox. I even grabbed Camino—the Mac OS X alternative to Firefox and Mozilla. All are now installed and working fine. It was a nice touch that both new versions of Thunderbird and Firefox were configured to automatically import emails, accounts, setting, and bookmarks from Mozilla. (Also ironic because neither Mozilla nor Thunderbird allow exporting of emails to be imported into other systems. ) For the time being, I’m trying out Nvu to replace the HTML editor.
For the time being, I’m using Thunderbird as my default email, and Firefox as my default browser, though I might give Camino a try and see how it goes.
March 27th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
Have you used Safari & Apple Mail much? They may be separate apps, but the integration of Mail with Address Book and iCal is really, really nice. I use both safari and Firefox regularly and have to give Safari the edge - the bookmark features, in particular, seem to work much better.
March 27th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
Yeah. My one issue with Safari is that it doesn’t seem that easy to import bookmarks from other browsers. But there may be ways around that.
March 27th, 2005 at 4:59 pm
I love Fire Fox. I could not imagine my internet life without it. The tabbed browsing is fantastic an so are some of intuitive and easy to use plug-ins.
I use Thunder Bird but am not crazy about it. I don’t know why I don’t like it but I am looking for an alternitive.
March 27th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
I’ve been using Mozilla 1.75 for a long while now and have had almost no problems with it outside of a couple of blips that were caused by a site I was visiting. I am curious what you mean when you say “it fried”.