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03-24-2006, 09:21 AM
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Firefox vs Mozilla; why is FF more popular?
I did a search, but I didn't see any discussion on this. I know FF is a striped down Mozilla w/o the e-mail client (among other things).
I compared the size of each program (unpacked each to a separate folder) and to my surprise FF was 3 MB larger. 18MB vs 15MB for Mozilla. What's the attraction to FF over the more complete Mozilla? |
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03-24-2006, 09:26 AM
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Mozilla is the old version; I don't know if there is any serious development going on at all with it.
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03-24-2006, 02:35 PM
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I see the last date is Sept. 2005.
Why the switch? The included e-mail client stes it apart. Either way, Opera is far better. Guess I will stick with that. |
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03-24-2006, 02:39 PM
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I'm not exactly sure why they chose to move away from the all-in-one suite and focus on developing the standalones Firefox and Thunderbird; maybe they felt that the suite was becoming too bloated.
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03-24-2006, 02:47 PM
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The now have something called "SeaMonkey". Where do they get these names??
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03-24-2006, 03:01 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey gives you more information about SeaMonkey including the stop to Mozilla's development.
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03-24-2006, 06:01 PM
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Either way, Opera is far better. Guess I will stick with that.[/QUOTE]
to each his own.
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03-25-2006, 01:22 AM
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I use it for Composer.
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