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Date:	Sun, 22 May 2005 00:10:10 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS/2 Mozilla Newsgroup?

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Colin Campbell wrote:
> Tom,
> Thanks for that pointer; I now have a subscription to the News Group,
> with 27,000 entries back into 1998. (Somehow I doubt if I'll get around
> to reading all the way up to the present.)
>
> There was one recent entry that intimated that the latest (last?)
> Mozilla suite might be preferable to using Firefox and Thunderbird -
> something about sharing certificates that I didn't quite understand.

I think you are referring to a response to a thread I started. Let's
see if that thread produces anything else definitive. I don't
understand it either, but that is just one of many things going on
under the covers of Mozilla, that I may not need to understand,
because it works.
>
> I downloaded all three apps earlier on my older PC, and wondered what
> folks thought would be the smartest to install, Mozilla 1.7.8 or Firefox
> 1.0.4 and T-bird 1.0.2?

The suite works fine - with Jave 1.4 and Flash 7. The only reason I
might use the separate parts is to use a later browser and keep an
older email client that may not have a bug that the later version has:
eg. drop and drag.

The following is just my theory about why the suite was split; it
makes it possible to compete with Internet Exploiter without having to
take on Outlook at the same time. I recently switched a novice to
Mozilla suite under Windows. When I got to the "oh, and by the way
here is your new email client" part, my job got much more difficult.

Ray

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