From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

Thanks Rich.  I've started tinkering with Firefox - and I think it's about
to become my default browser even before I get the new machine
.  It's working quite nicely with some sites that either gave NS
fits or just didn't work quite right.  Plus it 'imported'  most of the
plugins that I had installed for NS.  I grabbed Thunderbird at the same
time and will give it a try soon.

Doug

On Fri, 04 May 2007 21:13:53 -0400, Rich Gauszka
 wrote:

>Thunderbird is cross platform. I use it on my Mac(s).
>
>
>http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
>
>Doug Bryce wrote:
>> I think I'm about to have the 'opportunity' to change browsers --
>> machine is displaying various 'old-timers' symptoms.  I'm currently
>> using NS7 for browsing and mail....any suggestions for a mail client
>> to go with Firefox?
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On Thu, 03 May 2007 19:52:08 -0400, mike  wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/05/02/1177788202450.html
>>>
>>> ===
>>> When the Firefox web browser was launched in 2004, the then head of
>>> Microsoft Australia Steve Vamos was quoted as saying he did not believe
>>> it would pose a real threat to Internet Explorer's market share.
>>>
>>> He said the additional features Firefox offered, such as the ability to
>>> view multiple web pages within "tabs" in a single
browser window, were
>>> not necessarily what consumers wanted.
>>>
>>> Mr Vamos, who was recently appointed vice-president of Microsoft's
>>> international online services group, must surely be eating his words
>>> now.
>>>
>>> Firefox continues to claw users away from IE - the most recent measure
>>> by web analyst NetApplications shows Firefox has a worldwide market
>>> share of 15 per cent, compared with 78 per cent for IE.
>>>
>>> Recent measures from another firm, XiTi Monitor, say Firefox enjoys an
>>> almost 25 per cent share of the market in Oceania - larger than its
>>> share in Europe, Asia and America.
>>>
>>> It has clearly caused a massive dent in the dominance of the Microsoft
>>> browser, which once controlled more than 90 per cent of the market.
>>>
>>> And while Microsoft questioned the benefits of tabbed browsing in 2004,
>>> it finally adopted the feature with the release of IE7 in October last
>>> year - the first IE update in five years.
>>>
>>> In the same period, Mozilla, the organisation behind Firefox, released
>>> two versions of its browser and is already gearing up for the release of
>>> Firefox 3 later this year....
>>> ===
>>>
>>> /m
>>

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