Question about Mozilla and Firefox

[Hokie]

I use Mozilla as my main browser. Is the browser piece of Mozilla the same as Firefox or are they different? If they are different which one is better?

[Technowitch]

1. Firefox is newer

And in my opinion, better. I dumped IE permanently after participating in the beta.

[sir_captain]

2. They're different

Mozilla is no longer in active development--Firefox is their new thing--it's based on the older Mozilla core, but it's been quite improved--so yes, that's the one you should get.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. Rumors of the Mozilla Suite's death have been greatly exaggerated

Version 1.8 is in development. Latest alpha is from two days ago: http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.8a5

[leftyandproud]

3. same basically

firefox is stipped down and much more customizable with themes/extensions, etc. It probably has a little more screen room too.

[Hokie]

4. I just found it on Mozilla.org

I had to dig a bit. Looks like Firefox is more a cutting edge browser. It is smaller and faster. I may give it a try. How is Thunderbird for mail?

[Hokie]

5. Thanks for the all the replies

I will try it on my backup PC a while and pet you knwo how I like it.

[Ian David]

6. I love Firefox

I love the thing.

It's faster, more stable, and more useful.

It also has some awesome plug-ins, like an un-official version of the Google toolbar. My favorite is an extension for Bug-me-not.

See www.BugMeNot.com

I also have a pop-up blocker, and a plug-in that circumvents sites that don't allow a right-click.

[donheld]

8. Once i went Firefox

I never looked back

[Hokie]

9. It works very well so far.

I installed Firefox and Thunderbird on my backup PC. I like the way it imports everything from Mozilla browser and mail. I mean everything including Bookmarks, passwords, cookie settings, addresses and mail folders. Very well done installer.

One big thing I notice right away is that scrolling down pages is much faster.