RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>]

You can unmerge them.  I never had Mozilla on my system and Firefox and 
Thunderbird work well.  If you have some valuable emails in Mozilla's 
mailbox be sure you can access them later.

  On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, John 
Dangler wrote:

> I just found some docs on this that say "Large organizations that require an
> integrated suite (past Netscape Communicator users) should consider moving
> towards Mozilla 1.7. All others should consider upgrading to Firefox and
> Thunderbird."
>
> So, I guess the question becomes, can I unmerge Mozilla and emerge Firefox
> and Thunderbird?  Or do they need to see Mozilla libs somewhere, since
> they're offered by the same org?
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> John D
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Dangler [mailto:jdangler@atlantic.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:33 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail
>
> I've just completed setting up x server and gnome (why gnome - I'm a relic
> of *nix and Motif and gnome sort of reminds me of the older look and feel).
> gnome installs mozilla by default, which has browsing, news, and mail.  How
> does this stack up against Firefox?  I've seen a lot of press about using
> one or the other, but I'm trying to get a feel for why.  Is one better
> suited to Gentoo than the other?
> (This particular box is used primarily for business apps and remote
> webserver/site tweaking when needed).
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> John D
>
>
>
>
>

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