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.