My company has pretty much "standardized" on IE for internal Web browsing and Outlook/Exchange for getting mail, scheduling meetings, etc.
I've been using Mozilla since before I arrived and was reluctant to give it up. I've been using Mozilla in this enviromnent for about 11 months. I encounter JavaScript problems on our intranet pages fairly regularly. These pages are written with Microsoft tools specifically for the Microsoft browser. Often they use JScript constructions that do not work at all in Mozilla. Regardless I still use Mozilla for all my browsing, and only use IE for a few intranet pages that I absolutely must visit. I have IE 6.0 installed along with Netscape 4.77 and the latest nightly build of Mozilla. I have not run into any conflicts of any kind. Outlook issues, however, have been harder to work through, but still not enough for me to switch to using Outlook as my primary mail client. One issue is that since the (Windows 2000) Exchange servers go up and down like popcorn, my company has five IMAP email servers. When one goes down, Outlook is able to find another one on the network automatically without user intervention. In Mozilla, there's a bug that prevents me from changing IMAP servers without creating a new mail profile. I have to launch Outlook, go to its prefs, find the name of the new server, and then recreate my Mozilla mail profile. This has happened three times in 11 months, but this process is pretty harsh. Another issue is that LDAP doesn't work. I've had Mozilla LDAP work with Exchange once or twice, but I haven't been able to get it to work at all lately. This just means that I have to look up some email addresses on our intranet. This is not a big deal, and is eased substantially with Mozilla's feature of gathering emails of people who send mail to me or whom I send email to. It is really rare that someone who I need to sent email has not automatically been added to my local address book by Mozilla. The third issue is simply that meeting invitations come as mail. I need to be able to recognize them and make sure to respond to them with Outlook. If I don't, then my response is not logged with the Exchange server and the company calendar is not updated. Related to this last point is the occasional Outlook email that asks people to respond by clicking buttons that Outlook can add to email and which Exchange can automatically tally. Whenever I get an email that says, "Please don't reply to this message, just click the appropriate button above" I know to open Outlook and respond from there. If it wasn't for Outlook Calendar, I would uninstall Outlook from my system. (I can always discover the mail server d'jour from someone else's installation.) Hope this helps, Robert Mark Lewis wrote: > Hi All, > > Before taking the plunge into building Mozilla from source (in preparation > to join the developer community) I thought it prudent to install the latest > Mozilla binary first to actually see it work. To this end, are there any > problems or conflicts with installing/running Mozilla 0.9.4 on a Win95 OSR2 > system on which MSIE 4 or MS Outlook98 are already installed? > > TIA! > > >
