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December 27, 2004
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Mozilla's Lightning to strike Outlook?
Yes, I avoided the obvious pun. I may be the Punning Pundit, but I can show some restraints. I keep them in the nightstand...
Anyway. About two weeks ago, I was thinking to myself about the possible future for Mozilla. Since it was mid finals, though, I didn’t post about it. My thinking went something like this:
FireFox is a wonderful browser, the best on the web. Thunderbird is an awesome lite Email reader. If you are using the Microsoft equivalents of these programs, for the Gods’ sake, switch (yes, Marcie, I am writing to you!)...
However, I keep going back to Outlook for my Email needs. It isn’t all that special with Email itself, but its Calendar program is one of the most useful pieces of software I use. Outlook also has a very nice Contacts system. Name, Email address, Phone number, IM name, Picture, Birthday. All there...
And the fact that Outlook coordinates the various parts of itself is the killer feature. For instance, if I tell Outlook’s Contact manager what my sister’s birthday is, Outlook will add that to the calendar-- and give me enough advanced notice to actually buy a present. Ever since I called my Step-mother a month and a half late to wish her a happy Birthday (thinking I was only calling a few days late!), I’ve started using this feature...
When I saw that Mozilla was working on the Sunbird calendar program, I was happy. It certainly isn’t mature yet, but it is well on its way. The problem is that Sunbird won’t be integrated into Thunderbird-- leaving all my information separate. Sorry, family, I’m forgetting birthdays again...
So, the Lightning project is welcome news. If done right (and the current Mozilla team has a habit of doing things right) I can cheerfully ditch Outlook in favor of a heavy-duty, free Email client. Who could ask for more?
Posted by Andrew at December 27, 2004 01:56 PM
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I've been using the Mac version of Firefox and haven't found it to be "all that." It often crashes on me and it take a long time to load.
Safari is pretty good (and stable), so I tend to stick with that as my primary browser. IE, is still on my system since there are a few sites that don't work on Safari, so I keep that as a backup.
Ted
Posted by: Ted at December 28, 2004 12:25 PM
When I am on campus, I often find that the only available computers are Macs. While I won’t comment on that directly, I will say that this is awfully convenient...
As a result, I have had about 10 hours with Safari. I can’t comment on Firefox’s performance on OS10.x (though I can say that the 1.0 of FF is supposed to be better than previous versions). The other option is Mozilla 1.6...
I can say that that the Safari GUI seems to be a poor copy of FF, with inconvenient things like placement of tab closers on the tab themselves, in the same color as the tabs(!). While I fully expect Apple to improve the Safari GUI over the next few iterations it isn’t quite there yet...
Of course Mozilla 1.6 is a very good example of why Firefox was necessary in the first place. Gods be good! What a bloated program...
Posted by: Andrew Cory at December 28, 2004 01:00 PM