MozillaFirebird

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Re #2 - does this mean they are reducing the bloat?  That's one of my 
problems with Mozilla - it's bloated and big.  I was using Phoenix 
(briefly) on my Gentoo system before I had to send back the motherboard for 
replacement.  Now that I've got it back I need to choose a browser.


Collins Richey wrote:

> I have nothing against Opera, Konqueror, Galeon, etc.;  I've tried them
> all.  For now I've settled on MozillaFirebird as my browser of choice,
> for a number of reasons:
> 
> 1) It's GPL, of course.
> 
> 2) It's part of the Mozilla roadmap.  After a few months of development,
> MozillaFirebird (browser only) will become the Mozilla browser.  The
> mailer component has been split out as Mozilla Thunderbird (already
> usable, but alpha quality).
> 
> 3) If you stick to the binaries or build from source using GCC 2.95.x
> and older libraries, all (at least all that I've tried) the Mozilla
> plugins still work.  It will be some time before all the plugins have
> been built with the current GCC compiler.
> 
> Here's a brief HOWTO:
> 
> 
> Enjoy.
> 

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