[Gllug] What is the Mozilla & Firefox difference ??

[Tethys]

Stephen Harker writes:

>Mozilla is a fully fledged browser, email client, web editor, irc client 
>and contact manager. Firefox is just a browser. Makes it a smaller 
>download which is part of the reason for it's popularity.

When the firefox project (phoenix, as it was called then) was
announced, it was supposed to just be the standalone browser from the
suite, which would have been perfect. Sadly, they kept the rendering
engine, but opted to redo the front end, throwing away half of the
useful features in the process. Yeah, it's a smaller download, but
it's barely usable out of the box. It's also designed with the windows
mentality in mind (one machine, one user). Try installing an extension
centrally, so that it's present for any user. Trivial with the suite,
impossible with firefox.

Tet
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