Replacements for ThunderBird and FireFox

[Illés János]

First of all, swiftfox is an architecture dependent version of firefox,
there is no way to include it. Not to mention, it is highly unstable in
my experience. 

About sylpheed: it is now called Claws Mail and it is GTK2 based, and
you can view feeds and html pages with it. 

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:49:29 -0700
"Joshua Gardner" <mellowcellofellow at gmail.com> wrote:

> As for myself, I use Swiftfox, which is faster and seems to be in
> keeping with Xubuntu's spirit of speed. Abiword I used to use, but it
> doesn't work with MS Word or pictures very well, and I find myself
> using Google Docs for my quick stuff lately. But still, Abiword is
> useful and works well.
> 
> I've never used Sylpheed, except the old original Sylpheed that's
> included in DSL. I didn't like it but as a general rule GTK+1 apps
> stink. I like the way that Thunderbird handles feeds and
> HTML-formatted mails, using Gecko. But I haven't used Thunderbird
> recently, using Gmail + a slew of Firefox extensions and GreaseMonkey
> scripts instead.
> 
> I vote to keep Firefox or get Swiftfox put into the repos and used. I
> don't really care about the email client though.
> 
> -cellofellow
> 
> On 12/6/06, john levin <john at technolalia.org> wrote:
> >
> > Oblio wrote:
> > >> wow, that was fast ... i clicked send and already 2 replies.
> > >>
> > >> i think opera is a bad idea, i can't stand the browser and i
> > >> don't
> > think
> > >> we can package it on the distro cd because it isn't open
> > >> source ... not sure
> > >> about the licensing on that.
> > >>
> > >> -Adam
> > >
> > >
> > > I know, but after all, it comes down to preference. Xubuntu will
> > > ship Firefox
> > > because it can be supported, and it's Open Source, and someone
> > > with
> > older
> > > machines can install Opera because it's faster.
> > >
> > > Basically, this problem can't be solved:
> > > - all Gecko based browser are slow (seems it's going to be
> > > solved); actually not
> > > slow, but huge memory munchers
> > > - Konqueror is KDE based
> > > - all other lightweight browsers are unsuitable for general use
> > > - Opera is closed source
> > >
> > > So Firefox it shall be :)
> > >
> >
> > Has anyone tried Skipstone?
> > http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/
> > It aims to be a light and fast gecko browser, in GTK with few
> > dependencies.
> >
> > John
> >
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