Mike:

Taste isn't disputable. :-)

Firefox is faster than IVE in my experience. (IVE = Internet Virus
Explorer) I have only seen reviews that confirm that opinion. Might be
nice if you could point to a site that doesn't download as fast on FF -
I'll send it to the developers attention.

There are many badly designed sites that only work with IVE though. I
limit my visits to them. IVE and the bad sites are too risky -- "thank
you very much but no thanks" -- due to all the "Phishers" and pimply
faced teen-bopper hackers who exploit the weakness of IIS and IVE.

BTW No evidence of a memory leak here. Again it would be nice to have
evidence to report. If you can spot anything concrete the developers
should hear about it.




Mike Marlow wrote:
wrote in message
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:07:10 -0500, Will
wrote:


On their home page you will find the link for Thunderbird - it makes a
great newsreader.
http://www.mozilla.org/

Looks like it might be -- if I could ever get the darned thing to
work.

I spent about an hour playing with it last night and I couldn't even
get the 'junk' button ungrayed, never mind setting up the filters.

The documentation on its newsreader functions is sparse and unhelpful
as well.



I played with Thunderbird for a while too and decided it was not worth the
effort. It does have some nice features that OE does not have, but for me
they just didn't outweigh some of the other peculiarities of it. I'm past
the point where diddling with software packages like this is fun, so I lost
interest after a short time. I'm still using Firefox, but probably only for
a short time. It's much slower than IE, and although I can't really prove
it, it seems to have a memory leak of some major proportions. I've checked
for patches or updates, but there are none on the Mozilla site. I'll
probably just go back to IE and its shortcomings.

--
Will
Occasional Techno-geek