MozillaFirebird

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Yes, dropping the mailer helps but Mozilla was just so slow and pokey.  I 
my try Firebird and see how it works.  I never used the Moz mailer because 
it could never use an external mail client and I wasn't about to maintain 
two sets of mail stuff!

KDE I don't want!  I'm running it on the Caldera WS 3.1 system that I'm in 
the process of replacing with Gentoo.  On Gentoo I'm using xfce and love it 
- does everything KDE does without the hassles and bloat.

OO has a right to be big - with all it does <G>.   OO bloat serves a 
purpose. I'm replacing MS Office with OO.

Collins Richey wrote:

> On Sun, 18 May 2003 11:45:51 -0400
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> [ snipped ]
> 
> Well, obviously if there is no imbedded mailer code, that's bloat
> reduction, but there's only so much they can do if they want to provide
> a browser that has download support, plugin support, java support, and
> support for all the crap that M$IE has introduced into the WEB arena.
> If you want a minimalist browser, try Dillo.
> 
> Since I have a relatively capable machine and not one of the old
> warriors, bloat is less of a concern for me than usability.  I can even
> tolerate kde or gnome functions now, when I need them.
> 
> OpenOffice is certainly the bloat queen, but she's a damn good product.
> 

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