Mozilla or Firefox and Thunderbird

[dstyle347]

I use firefox and I love it and I want to use Thunderbird for my online classes or newsgroups instead of outlook express. Now Mozilla does all of this but puts out FF and Tbird right? Do I install all three or what. I was told that downloading mozilla along w firefox will fix some holes in FF.

[primesuspect]

It's kind of confusing at first.

Mozilla Foundation - the "group" that puts out the various open source software packages.

Mozilla = An application suite. It is sort of like netscape - it includes a browser, a mail client, a newsgroup reader, an HTML editor, etc. It's an all-in-one thing. It tends towards bloat and bugs, it's not the best solution.

Firefox = a standalone browser. Very light, compact, excellent. If you use this, you don't need mozilla.

Thunderbird = a standalone mail/newsgroup client - also light, compact, better than using mozilla.

So it sounds like you're already using Firefox - you may as well just download and use thunderbird. Don't worry about mozilla - you're better off with the individual components instead.

[RWB]

Yeah I just use Firefox and Thunderbird.

[pseudonym]

I use firefox and thunderbird too. I'll probably go back to outlook though once I go back to work, just to keep things the same.

[Preacher]

Firefox is hands and feet above IE. I'm interested now in using Thunderbird, instead of Outlook. Will Thunderbird convert my Outlook *.pst file to its own format so I can keep all my old emails? Anybody know if it will sync with a Palm?

[primesuspect]

Thunderbird will indeed import outlook, even outlook 2003. Not sure about the palm.