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OS/2 - Technical => Internet => Topic started by: rdonnelly on 2008.11.09, 18:37:41

Title: Firefox and Tbird or Seamonkey?
Post by: rdonnelly on 2008.11.09, 18:37:41
 ??? I have them all installed, they all look the same, but it seems as if FF and Tbird are more update then Seamonkey.

Any opinions on this?
Title: Re: Firefox and Tbird or Seamonkey?
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.11.09, 19:24:47
Firefox = Browser
Thunderbird = Email Client
SeaMonkey = WebSuite (Broswer, Email, Chat, IRC, HTML Editor)
Title: Re: Firefox and Tbird or Seamonkey?
Post by: RobertM on 2008.11.09, 20:09:17
Bob,

With Saijin's list in mind, I do not believe that Seamonkey has been updated recently - but I could be wrong. You may wish to search for Seamonkey 2.0 (alpha or beta) for OS/2.

But, if you just need web surfing, I'd go with FF. Or if you don't mind a separate app for web and mail, then use FF and TB which seem to be maintained with a greater frequency.

Robert
Title: Re: Firefox and Tbird or Seamonkey?
Post by: The Blue Warper on 2008.11.09, 22:23:09
Steve Wendt maintains a great page dedicated to all the Mozilla-related stuff.  You can start browsing from here:
http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/warpzilla.html
if you're looking for tips, news and links.
Title: Re: Firefox and Tbird or Seamonkey?
Post by: rdonnelly on 2008.11.10, 00:32:04
Quote from: RobertM on 2008.11.09, 20:09:17
Bob,

But, if you just need web surfing, I'd go with FF. Or if you don't mind a separate app for web and mail, then use FF and TB which seem to be maintained with a greater frequency.

Robert

That is the way I went, I installed them on a fat drive, I am going to try and use the windoze TB mail and setting files files with it. How is the eCS Fat 32? Should I format with that instead so I can have LFN?
Title: Re: Firefox and Tbird or Seamonkey?
Post by: RobertM on 2008.11.10, 01:25:35
Bob,

The safest way is to format it from eCS (for FAT32) to avoid it potentially being flagged with the wrong partition type identifier.

But, as a side note, you will find that FF and TB perform best on JFS drives, followed by HPFS386, followed by HPFS. FAT16 and FAT32 aren't really recommended and can seriously hinder performance of either.

Robert
Title: Re: Firefox and Tbird or Seamonkey?
Post by: warpcafe on 2008.11.10, 21:48:08
Hi all,

well, this is the ever-ongoing discussion we had since FFx saw the light of the day. Previously, Netscape 4.x and the "Mozilla suite" (now Seamonkey) were all-in-one suites. Then came FFx for those who want to "only surf", TBird for those who want to "only mail" etc.
I can understand why someone wants to have FFx only because he's doing mails in PMMail, etc. But I don't see any advantage in using a standalone mail client + a standalone browser + a standalone IRC + a standalone html editor + a standalone whatever if you can have all this in Seamonkey. And frankly:
- Seamonkey startup is blazingly fast compared to [ FFx + TBird ]
- Seamonkey (the "Peter Weilbacher" edition) comes with transparent PNG, MNG etc. out-of-the-box
- If you ever had "Multizilla" in your Seamonkey, you'll never want to switch back to FFx

After all, yes, it depens on personal preference. And what you're used to.
I'm used to Seamonkey. Praise the lord that Peter is constanly maintaining it. ;)

Cheers,
Thomas
Title: Re: Firefox and Tbird or Seamonkey?
Post by: rdonnelly on 2008.11.11, 01:09:50
So, You think I should just do Web Mail? I used a stand alone clent for so many years. I have never even thought about web mail. I do save alot of my emails, and I like to be able to back them up and look at them a year later if I need them. I may just put the settings on a fat drive and put the programs on JFS, and NTFS. I tried PMMail v3, it really needs some more work, dont look that much better then the one I used 10 years ago.
Title: Re: Firefox and Tbird or Seamonkey?
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2008.11.12, 00:10:14
Thunderbird (and the app in seamonkey) are stand alone mail client.