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Mail and Safari: Better alternatives?
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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 107340" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>I, too, am a Firefox and Thunderbird man as well, but that is more because I switched over from Linux, and am used to the interfaces of both of them. Safari lacks a few small things that firefox does for me so I predominantly use Firefox. However I have noticed a few quirky bugs with FF specific to the Mac that pop up from time to time, but they don't really happen often enough to cause frustration. Also Firefox leaks memory requiring it to be restarted after a few days, but it does this on all platforms so..uh, I'm used to that. Besides I usually quit all applications to run UT 2004 on my Mini so it gets refreshed periodically anyway. Most long time Mac users don't seem to like that Firefox doesn't conform to the "Mac way" like Safari or Camino, but I don't know any better so that doesn't bother me. I do, however, usually get the G4 optimized builds for Firefox...the URL for which escapes me at the moment. It is but a google away though.</p><p></p><p>Thunderbird is also used because I'm used to it and my legacy mail can be incorporated with it, but I am told by people who are picky about these things that Mail is actually a pretty decent app on the Mac for, well, mail. Haven't gone with this because I only relatively recently came into the graphical email world (for personal email, we use..ugh, Lotus Notes at the office) with Thunderbird from <strong>pine</strong> of all things. Switching to yet another mail client is not in my cards at this juncture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 107340, member: 9385"] I, too, am a Firefox and Thunderbird man as well, but that is more because I switched over from Linux, and am used to the interfaces of both of them. Safari lacks a few small things that firefox does for me so I predominantly use Firefox. However I have noticed a few quirky bugs with FF specific to the Mac that pop up from time to time, but they don't really happen often enough to cause frustration. Also Firefox leaks memory requiring it to be restarted after a few days, but it does this on all platforms so..uh, I'm used to that. Besides I usually quit all applications to run UT 2004 on my Mini so it gets refreshed periodically anyway. Most long time Mac users don't seem to like that Firefox doesn't conform to the "Mac way" like Safari or Camino, but I don't know any better so that doesn't bother me. I do, however, usually get the G4 optimized builds for Firefox...the URL for which escapes me at the moment. It is but a google away though. Thunderbird is also used because I'm used to it and my legacy mail can be incorporated with it, but I am told by people who are picky about these things that Mail is actually a pretty decent app on the Mac for, well, mail. Haven't gone with this because I only relatively recently came into the graphical email world (for personal email, we use..ugh, Lotus Notes at the office) with Thunderbird from [B]pine[/B] of all things. Switching to yet another mail client is not in my cards at this juncture. [/QUOTE]
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