From: Rich Gauszka 

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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