Re: [Paddlewise] New browser and e-mail (was: Request for a change to the digest version

From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk_at_rockandwater.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:06:27 -0500
(We should probably move this off-list before we delve too far into
geek issues.)

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:17:50PM -0800, alex wrote:
> I've checked this new "Firefox" browser - it has everything that original
> Mozilla had, and is much better. 

<chuckle> This isn't an accident: Mozilla and Firefox share about 90% of
the same code base.  Nor is the similarity to Netscape an accident: same
code base again.

> There is one problem with e-mail client "Thurderbird" - unlike Outlook,
> it has no option "Disconnect after sending/receiving messages"

See:

	http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Mozilla_Suite_:_FAQs_:_Autoconnect

which discusses this issue and has a link to a utility called "HangUp" which
purports to address this for Windows users.

BTW: someone else mentioned Opera: it's very nice, too, although it's not
open-source and so its development isn't moving at the same pace.  But which
one of these anyone uses isn't nearly as important as doing everything possible
to avoid using IE and/or Outlook at all costs.

---Rsk
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