Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox (Inc) [LWN.net]

Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox (Inc)

Posted Mar 1, 2007 20:09 UTC (Thu) by muwlgr (guest, #35359)
In reply to: Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox (Inc) by man_ls
Parent article: Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox (Inc)

Webmail is a trend of the day. It comes and goes.
Nothing beats good old IMAP/POP3/SMTP/NNTP :>
Btw, you don't have to keep Mail&News window open all the time.
You can close and reopen it, just keep the same Semonkey process running.
Even if it is closed, you still keep getting mail notifications.
How could anyone be unsatisfied with this ? :>

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Webmail and suites

Posted Mar 1, 2007 22:20 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

I am afraid that webmail is here to stay. It is another way to look at your mail, very convenient when in a roaming mode. It can even be made easier than many mail clients, as Gmail has shown.

As I have already recalled here on LWN, when Netscape Communicator 4 was finally released in 1997 many of us were flabbergasted. What was this 4 MB-odd monster that was being deployed on us? Web browser, of course; mail client, why not; but the rest... A news reader? A stupid IRC client? A cheesy HTML designer? Was this a joke? Why carry all that baggage just to browse the net? I don't want to have all those processes on my back! If I want email notifications I will install an applet that does them, thank you very much!

You know, the problem of a suite is that it's like a Katsuhiro Otomo manga, it tends to aggregate everything in its path. Look at Microsoft Office or even at OpenOffice for examples. If you have the resources to spare it's fine, I guess. 7 years after that, Firefox emerged as a lean browser once again; you can even integrate it with Thunderbird if desired. Now Microsoft has some competition once again. But SeaMonkey is not it, sorry.

Webmail and suites

Posted Mar 8, 2007 9:58 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

FireFox a lean browser? Surely you jest.

Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox (Inc)

Posted Apr 8, 2007 3:35 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

Nothing beats good old IMAP/POP3/SMTP/NNTP :>

true, but that assumes that you have a decent implementation.

having to pay the cost of the mozilla mail client, when you don't want to use it (becouse it can't sanely handle mailboxes with tens of thousands of entries for example) is not a good thing.