Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday 01 May 2006 07:55 am, Justin Patrin wrote:
>> On 4/30/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>> > Kesara Rathnayake wrote:
>> > PS: I begin to hate Googlemail because of the default to use HTML
>> > even if it is not required. Sucks. Big time.
>>
>> It may "default" to HTML now, as do Yahoo and Hotmail, but it's an
>> easy thing to turn off. I'm still using gmail in text-only mode.
> 
> It doesn't "default" to HTML.

Yes, it does. Why do you think, that close to all the gmail users
are sending out HTML mails?

>  It defaults to RTF,

No, it doesn't. It doesn't even send out RTF. It's either
HTML or plain text, what you can compose on gmail.

> and even then you can 
> change that.

Sure, no doubt about that. I fail to understand though, why
GMail sends out HTML, if there's no formatting in the mail,
which would require HTML. IMO, it should behave like Mozilla:
If you compose a mail in the HTML coposer and the mail has
no HTML elements, a text/plain will be created. THAT is the
proper way to go.

>> (I hate HTML mail....and I hate Outlook even more.)
> 
> Outlook and Outlook Express are the two worst mail clients in the universe.  

They are not. Lotus Notes beats them to that.

> They're too slow

Not really.

> and bloated to do anything, and they don't accept ANYTHING 
> other than MS Exchange server

Wrt. Outlook Express, that's plain wrong. And wrt. Outlook: It's
wrong as well. Outlook CAN interface IMAP servers. But you'll
lose all the benefits of Outlook in this case.

Alexander Skwar
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