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.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>I vote to keep Firefox or get Swiftfox put into the repos and used. I don't really care about the email client though.<br><br>-cellofellow<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
john levin</b> <<a href="mailto:john@technolalia.org">john@technolalia.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Oblio wrote:<br>>> wow, that was fast ... i clicked send and already 2 replies.<br>>><br>>> i think opera is a bad idea, i can't stand the browser and i don't think<br>>> we can package it on the distro cd because it isn't open source ... not
<br>>> sure<br>>> about the licensing on that.<br>>><br>>> -Adam<br>><br>><br>> I know, but after all, it comes down to preference. Xubuntu will ship<br>> Firefox<br>> because it can be supported, and it's Open Source, and someone with older
<br>> machines can install Opera because it's faster.<br>><br>> Basically, this problem can't be solved:<br>> - all Gecko based browser are slow (seems it's going to be solved);<br>> actually not<br>> slow, but huge memory munchers
<br>> - Konqueror is KDE based<br>> - all other lightweight browsers are unsuitable for general use<br>> - Opera is closed source<br>><br>> So Firefox it shall be :)<br>><br><br>Has anyone tried Skipstone?
<br><a href="http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/">http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/</a><br>It aims to be a light and fast gecko browser, in GTK with few dependencies.<br><br>John<br><br>--<br>xubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">
xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a><br></blockquote></div><br>