Replacements for Firefox and Thunderbird?

[Liam Proven]

> Thanks a lot for your kind advice, Liam. For the time beeing I've
> settled with Dissenter (a gab fork of Brave, but without all the Bitcoin
> and other crap). Works like a breeze.

OK. I had not heard of that one before.

If it is a fork of Brave, then it is still based on Google Chromium.
But if you're happy with it, then good.


> As for mail-client I've tried a lot, but have fallen back to
> Thunderbird.

That's fair enough. I work for a Linux vendor and run Linux for work.
I used Thunderbird for years, many years ago now, so I tried
Thunderbird again. I grew frustrated with its size, RAM usage, some of
the limitations on customisation and other things, so then I went
trying all the other Linux email clients. Most of those I listed and
some other ones too.

I stayed on Sylpheed for a while, but its lack of multi-threading got
to me. Every time I was in the middle of writing an email, it would
lock me out while it collected and filtered mail.

So I switched back to Thunderbird, and reconciled to its foibles, I
like it and use it every day. It's a bit big and a bit sluggish but
it's got more facilities than any other FOSS email client.

> You may say that I've surrendered to Mozilla and their ilk,
> but - as far as I understand - Thunderbird is no longer a Mozilla
> product, neither is it affiliated with Google or the other suppressors
> of free speech.

It is still based on upstream Mozilla code, and I think Mozilla still
sponsor it.

In what way do you consider Mozilla or Google to be "suppressors of
free speech"?

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