SillyDog701

[LARRYB]

Does firefox have a email suite in it, or is it just a browser only.


Larry

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090825 SeaMonkey/1.1.18

[DJGM]

It's a browser only. SeaMonkey is the suite. Thunderbird is the standalone e-mail program.

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[richard mitnick]

Right now, it matters little which you choose, FF/TB or the SM suite. SM's browser is incredibly robust; but there are some sites where it may be a wee bit deficient, e.g., http://www.hos.com, and http://www.wqxr.org, both being music sites.

Down the road it will matter, as FF and I assume TBird go off on a new branch of the Gecko tree, while SM may be left behind.

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[Jerrypetersons]

It's a browser only. SeaMonkey is the suite. Thunderbird is the standalone e-mail program.

Hi ,

i agree with you, that FF is only Browser.
i appreciate your knowledge.
Keep this attitude.

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[Fulvio]

Although Firefox is a browser only, by virtue of being a browser it is, also, a mail program. Mail is handled through the website, i.e. webmail. My IP, Cox has a toolbar, which includes Mail, i.e. webmail, and I can access any of our six accounts. Yahoo, has, also an addon to get to its mail.
Webmail is great, although not so good, if you want to look at decades of mail, or organize it in miriads of folders and subfolders.

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[richard mitnick]

While Fulvio is absolutely correct, in that there are various webmail programs, I believe that the spirit of the question here is best answered with mail in SeaMonkey Suite, a truly wonderful product, the direct legacy of the Netscape Suite and the Mozilla Suite; and by the stand alone mail program from Mozilla which is Thunderbird, another really excellent product.

I have used them all, including webmail from my home ISP and from my work ISP. Lots of people use web mail from Yahoo, Google, the Hotmail program, etc. None of them compare, in my view, to having your own mail program on your computer.

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[James]

Lots of people use web mail from Yahoo, Google, the Hotmail program, etc. None of them compare, in my view, to having your own mail program on your computer.

Hi Richard.

I would have agreed with you a few years back but in light of the way many if not most folks communicate today... pop mail programs on one's computer is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Don't misunderstand me. I still use it, our business still uses it and many people online still employ some form of this. But many more, especially younger (and more hip... ) dudes are using webmail. And webmail has gotten a great deal more sophisticated in the past few years. I have several webmail accounts although none can hold a candle to gmail which is pretty awesome.

Frankly, I think suites are dinosaurs that we're going to see their demise within a few years. Oh.. probably a few hardcore folks who can't adapt and refuse to change will still cling to some form of mail programs on their computers but I'm convinced they will be a very small minority. Suites like SeaMonkey and Opera are going to be a thing of the past. Already the user base of these suites is infinitely small while the standalone programs are growing in their support. It's just the direction in which this sort of communication is moving (in my view... and I think the numbers support this).

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[Fulvio]

I mentioned Webmail, because I know that James, and dudes et al., like it. I have preferred POP or IMAP, because it is possible to save as much mail as I want. Don't get me wrong, many Webmails can store 2 GB, and that is more than enough for me. But, if I access Yahoo as Webmail, I may be be able to see two weeks old messages, or not. If I get something important, in Yahoo mail, I forward it to one of my IP accounts, and story the mail in a Yahoo folder. Yahoo makes so many changes that I gave up using freePOP or other such programs, because of the constant changes which are made.
I use Yahoo, but not much, . So, what's the use of using any other Webmail programs?

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[richard mitnick]

The big things for me are the Contact lists, the ability to thread incoming and outgoing mail on a given subject, and the fact that the new mail just pops in without refreshing the web site.

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