I've sold a few other people on Thunderbird in the last few months too. WWAL.
Junk mail detection learns quick and is great, though it did have some issues with some cluggers. Mainly just Nick and Volker (Hmmm ;->).
Wife loves Firefox icon. "He's sooo cute!"
Johnno wrote:
Have you tried Thunderbird?
I am using Firefox here and just install Thunderbird as my email client..
These are both excellent products...
Johnno
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cheetham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:53 AM
Subject: Firefox!
Because Firefox is currently the default browser in Ubuntu, I've been spending some time with it, comparing it to the excellent Opera (semifree-as-in-beer) browser.
I'm very very impressed with Firefox ...
There's a Mouse Gestures extension that allows you to define your own gestures, and your own functions. I'd previously thought that Opera was the only browser to support gesturing, and I find the facility extremely useful. Firefox's support is way better than Opera's.
The 'keywords' function of the address book is very good too - in Opera I was always editing the search-engine config file in order to get a Wikipedia lookup, and thinking of a 'google/lucky' serach ... but putting these things into bookmarks in a generalised fashion is much more powerful (plus, you can associate mouse gestures with bookmarks!)
I haven't looked into kiosk mode yet, although I will do. If you remember correctly I've just built a decent kiosk browser with Opera (http://clug.inode.co.nz/index.php/KioskSystem) so perhaps I'll be able to easily slip Firefox into this role instead ...
The final Opera feature that I liked, was the MDI interface - where the browser pages could live within the parent Opera window, separate to the desktop. No, not tabs, they're fine, but child windows, tiled, cascaded, individually sized or whatever. But I think I can live without them :-)
So, for my usage, I think Firefox has finally eclipsed Opera! Hooray for Open Source!
-jim
