[RULE] Mozilla components

[Richard Kweskin]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 08:51:56 -0400
"Jason Bechtel" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Richard,
> 
> I know that version 0.1 has only just been
> released, but have you tried Mozilla Thunderbird,
> yet?  I've always had good experiences with using
> the Mozilla suite's mail reader and composer.  I
> would expect it to handle charsets properly.  If
> you can manage to get it installed on your test
> machine somehow, it might be something that will
> work for your needs.
> 
> Jason
> 
Hello Jason

I haven't tried Thunderbird but I have tried Firebird 0.6 and Galeon (cannot 
remember which version.)

In the days of Netscape 4.x I had everyone in the school I worked at use the 
whole suite.

However, at the moment a good but small app is the goal. Firebird (which I 
downloaded from one of the Mozilla pages) comes in binary form wrapped up with 
tar and gzip. The only additional dependency needed with Shrike installed by 
Slinky was the package from cd1 called compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm 
(Michael's "mozilla_packages" list helped me find this out.)

I am using Firebird and Sylpheed for all the browsing and e-mail on the 
"rule-101" box and all is going well (with the exceptions mentioned in an 
earlier post) but when the same combo of apps was attempted on an old clunker 
486 (yet to be reported here) Firebird took far too long. (Icewm and Sylpheed 
seemed reasonable, though.)

Dillo is probably the only X brwser that will pass on that box, but that is 
just speculation at the moment. (Watch this space.)

Richard