MozillaFirebird

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 19 May 2003 12:10:29 -0600
Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> 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).

With Mozilla 1.3, if I install the RH RPMs, I need to install a base package
that seems to supply features needed for all the rest. These are called like
'nss', 'nspr' and 'psm'. Each is some hundreds of Kb (not Mb). Then, there
is a 'mail' package and a 'mozilla' package, containing the mail and browser
parts. The 'mail' part, for example, need not be installed. These are the
packages I use:

10729710 Sep 25  2002 mozilla-1.1-0.i386.rpm
 2142757 Sep 30  2002 mozilla-mail-1.1-0.i386.rpm
  113652 Sep 25  2002 mozilla-nspr-1.1-0.i386.rpm
  720082 Sep 25  2002 mozilla-nss-1.1-0.i386.rpm
  363684 Sep 25  2002 mozilla-psm-1.1-0.i386.rpm


The mozilla rpm is, as of 1.1.0, still a big beast. I think 'mozilla-mail'
is now called Thunderbird.

I have to check my Gentoo to see if these are available. Of course, my wife
and daughter use Mozilla mail, so I wind up with the whole gorilla anyway...

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