Replacements for Firefox and Thunderbird?

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:37:11 +0100
Kaj Haulrich <kaj at haulrich.net> wrote:

> 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'?

I have been using Claws Mail for close to 20 Years, Using Vivaldi for a
browser. Vivaldi use the Chrome engine so I am not sure if it is Google
spyware or not.