Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Jul 2007 18:05 UTC, submitted by Flatline
"On her weblog, Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a "new, separate organizational setting" as the Mozilla Foundation continues to focus ever more closely on Firefox. While the Mozilla Foundation supports a number of projects, its taxable subsidiary the Mozilla Corp. is responsible for only Firefox and Thunderbird. However, it has become increasingly clear that Firefox is the priority. The resources allocated to Firefox dwarf those allocated to Thunderbird and recent projects such as the initiative to improve Mozilla support exclude Thunderbird."
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2006-03-13
Firefox 1 was great.
Firefox 1 was somewhat unstable, and extension management wasn't so hot.
2 is O.K.
You missed 1.5, which had severe problems initially before stabilizing. 1.5 probably was the worst when it came to memory management.
2.0.0.5 incorporates good extension management, its pretty stable, and it doesn't keep gobbling RAM. On Linux, it's actually pretty fast.
3 is utter bloated shite.
3 is Alpha software. It's entitled to be "shite." Start complaining closer to the official release.
What I like best with both Thunderbird and Firefox is the ability to minimize security concerns. With Thunderbird, something as simple as turning off Javascript, and displaying all messages as plain text goes a long way to making it a secure app.
Firefox, when combined with extensions, lets me closely manage Javascript, Java, Flash, cookies, and third party inclusions. Coupled with a good response time for security flaws, and Firefox becomes the most secure browser out there.