Need advice, Flist

[sff_corgi_lj]

I'm considering either swapping out Netscape Mail for Thunderbird, or my whole Netscape for the Seamonkey Suite. Does anybody have any comments or recommendations either way?

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[tefkas.livejournal.com]

I found Thunderbird to be very memory hungry, and slow to start up. I'm considering testing SeaMonkey, though, but again it looks as though it aims to do a little bit too much for what I actually need.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

So... it begs the question. What DO you actually need?

[tefkas.livejournal.com]

A fast browser, with Java support, pop-up suppression, vim-style search and tabs. Firefox works for me at the moment, but I'd like something slimmer..

[yendi]

I tried Thunderbird (switching from mail.app on the Mac side), and hated the interface -- it's about a tenth as good as mail.app's. Not sure what things are like on the PC side, though. But any mail program that doesn't use command-n (or control-n, presumably, on the pc) to create a new message starts with a strike against it.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Now, that's a command I've never used except to open another Internet Exploder instance.

[phantom_wolfboy]

Opera.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[dismissive wave] Already have it, and it doesn't exactly do mail, does it. Or does it have hidden reserves I have overlooked?

[phantom_wolfboy]

http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/m2/

Yup. :)

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[!!] I slouch corrected! :) [goes to read]

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

I have to use Exploder/Outlook at work; I was a happy user of Netscape/Eudora at home for years; I am now a big fan of the Thunderbird/Firefox combination. I need to check out this Seamonkey thing, though .... thanks for the link.

One huge advantage of leaving Exploder behind (as I'm sure you know) is that anything else doesn't have the same huge target painted on it, as far as viri are converned -- that, to me, makes it worth putting up with a few software-function oddities.

[snowjag.livejournal.com]

I use thunderbird, dont have any probs with it, haven't tried seamonky