MozillaFirebird

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 19 May 2003 09:16:15 +0200
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 May 2003 13:14:44 -0400
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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!
> 
> RedHat's RPMs for Mozilla (on the Mozilla site) install on other
> current Linux distros. They have had Mozilla broken up into a number
> of components(6 or so) that you can install as desired. For example, I
> do not install the Mailer, so all is smaller.
> 
> Is the FireBird/ThunderBird stuff just making this more explicit in
> the source and not something that RedHat alone have sorted out?
> 

I don't have any knowledge of what RH may have done, but Mozilla have
made it perfectly clear that the Firebird branch and the Thunderbird
branch are the products of the future, i.e. no combined Browser/Mailer
package.  The Firebird branch unlike the older Mozilla code is based on
XU (google for that, I don't have a clue).

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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