[coconutt2000]

Story ends with Microsoft buying Firefox and renaming it Internet Explorer 2006.

[LK44-40]

I have not used Firefox, as so many have, but I have been using the free Mozilla email client (Thunderbird) for about six months. I am very satisfied with it.

My specific reason for choosing Thunderbird over Outlook or Outlook Express is that Thunderbird creates standard ASCII mail stores which can readily be searched with a variety of programs. I always felt that MS was somewhat hijacking my mail because I could access it only through their clients. I keep a lot of old mail and use it somewhat as a personal database. I don't want it all hacked up in an MS mystery format that looks, at first glance, almost like plain text but definitely is not.

[martin_fierro]

FWIW, FireTune for Mozilla (free!) was developed for an optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, which can be time consuming and difficult for the novice user. FireTune helps you here--it includes all the performance optimizations.

[ThePythonicCow]

Mitchell Baker
CEO, Mozilla Corporation

[GregoTX]

I use Firefox and like did like it. Last week it dumped ALL my book marks, *poof* all gone. Dont know the cause yet, it may not be a Firefox glitch, could be a hostile program.

[goldstategop]

Firefox should strike a deal with Linux distro makers and Apple to get its browser bundled with their operating systems. They should look into an alliance with open source office suite OpenOffice.Org to bundle both products. Btw, Linspire already released a commercial OOO.org/Firefox combo package.

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