Replacements for Firefox and Thunderbird?

[Kaj Haulrich]

Now, since Mozilla has jumped on the thought police bandwagon to join Google, Twitter, Amazon and Facebook, I'm looking for alternative browsers and an e-mail clients to run on my (K)Ubuntu workstation. Kmail and Evolution both both want to pull in a lot of dependencies, and I will not touch Gmail (or anything Google) in any way, manner, shape or form. Can anyone recommend a lean e-mail client and a browser that does not 'phone home'?
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sent from my 100% Microsoft-free workstation.