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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:57:20 -0700
From:	Gary Wong <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Firefox & Thunderbird, or SeaMonkey?

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Ray, here's what Steve Wendt said to my question:

I do, here's a few reasons:
1) I use the news reader part of Seamonkey
2) I prefer the combined search/URL bar in Seamonkey
3) I don't like the way Firefox removed lots of configuration options (you have to
use about:config a lot more than you do with Seamonkey)
4) I don't like the way Firefox changed some of the keys (i.e. Ctrl+Enter got
changed to Alt+Enter for opening a new tab)

Firefox does do some things better, but it's looking like Seamonkey 2.x will pick
up the best of the new stuff. The other problem is that the mail/news part of the
devel version of Seamonkey tends to be busted, since there's hardly ever anyone
working on Thunderbird. Remember how much later TB 2.x was compared to
FX 2.x? The same will be true for 3.x.

Ray Davison wrote:
> gary.wong@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>> Do any of you use Thunderbird for mail/newsgroups, or do you prefer
>> to use SeaMonkey instead? It seems to me from reading posts to
>> scoug-help that Ray likes SeaMonkey instead of Firefox/Thunderbird,
>> and Steve Wendt likes SeaMonkey as well, but what about the rest of you?
>
> FF-TB has an attribute that is both a plus and a minus. When the
> suite was split into FF and TB the two separate pieces were provided
> as stripped down versions of the suite components. That's the
> negative. However, a community has developed that is creating
> add-ons. You can now do things with FF-TB that you can't do with SM.
> Actually the volume of add-ons has gotten rather overwhelming. You
> don't need video games any more; you can spend all your time building
> FF and TB.
>
> So, since I need both a browser and email client, I use SM for it's
> integration qualities, and it does all the normal stuff
> out-of-the-box. I then use TB for some mail file maintenance - see
> merge thread. I have a FF installation for trying plug-ins.
>
>
So I decided to stick with SeaMonkey 1.1.8...

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