New browser and email clients from Mozilla

[2ndAmendment]

The Mozilla group have released a new browser and a new email client. They are independent of each other; not like the Mozilla suite. Lightweight so they open fast.

They have been around in less than 1.0 versions for a while. The 1.0 versions have just released recently.

Firefox, the new browser, loads pages very fast. It has a variety of extensions available already including one that puts the weather from weather.com in any tool bar or status bar.

Thunderbird, the new email client, also opens fast. If Firefox is set as the default browser, then Thunderbird can open the browser when you click on links in the email.

There are themes, different look and feel, for them too.

 

[Kain99]

I've got Firefox and I love it!

 

[crabcake]

I downloaded this last night and like it so far ... fast-loading pages, similiar IE interface so it's easy to use; and it has the option to open tabs vs individual windows when you're surfing multiple pages at one time.

Nevermind the themes question ... figured it out.

 

[Tonio]

I've been using Firefox for almost a month, and I give it my highest recommendation. It has the same DHTML/DOM behavior as its siblings, the Mozilla and Netscape suites, but has a lot less bloat.

Haven't tried Thunderbird, but it looks promising.

 

[2ndAmendment]

I used to use Mozilla, part of the test team, but got tired of always downloading and installing nightlys many of which didn't work in some manner.

The one thing I miss in Firefox is an extention that I had installed on Mozilla called Multizilla. It was an enhanced tab set. Multizilla allows for reopening tabs when the browser starts, reopening closed tabs with their history (ever close a window or tab my mistake), and reordering tabs by drag and drop, naming tabs, opening a set of tabs in a new window, lots of cool stuff. (I test for Multizilla too.) But, the writer of Multizilla says he has a version for Firefox coming hopefully by the end of the year.

 

[crabcake]

where in Firefox do you set your browser bar to keep those website so they aren't lost every time you close the window? I'm sure there's a preferences thing I'm missing somewhere to do this but I'm not seeing it.

 

[Kizzy]

Tools, Options, Advanced, look at the browser tabs, around the middle of the settings page there. :shrug:

 

[crabcake]

I see some "browsing" options to check/click, but none that seem to be related to the browser bar thing.

 

[Kizzy]

There is Go, History, gives a sidebar of websites visited, instead of bookmarking everything. :shrug: Is that it?

 

[crabcake]

kind of ... I'm trying to keep my frequently visited sites in that tab vs. bookmarks so I can just click and scroll through 'em as I need 'em. (e.g., the bank, nascar.com, etc.) but if I close the firefox window out, and reopen it, the history is automatically cleared. I guess what I need to figure out is how to extend the history retention.

 

[crabcake]

Okay ... i think i figured it out in the history section.

Thx again, Kizzy!

 

[Kizzy]

Options, privacy, download manager history, it may have when firefox exits selected, and manually will leave them in the window so you just click the arrow and see them. If it isn't that, I dunno.

 

[Kizzy]

Actually, that doesn't work either. :shrug:

Now, I have the same problem.