Opera is almost exactly what I'm looking for in a web browser as far as features are concerned: fast, browser window tabs, mouse gesturing, and I can configure the interface a little. It has its problems, no doubt. Java and Javascript are big tripping points for it to name just a few. But speed is what I'm looking for.

Then along comes Mozilla's Phoenix web browser.

Thunderbird also allows you to import mail, address books, and preference settings from other email clients. To accomplish this task, navigate to Tools | Options. The Import Wizard should launch and present a series of radio buttons asking you what you want to import (Address Books, Mail, or Settings). Follow the wizard, and your mail, address books, or preferences should be imported from the directory you specified into Thunderbird.

Mozilla Firefox is the next generation open source Internet browser from the Mozilla Foundation, and is set to succeed Mozilla Navigator as the default browser for the Mozilla suite of applications at some point in the near future. Firefox and its sister project Mozilla Thunderbird (the new Mozilla mail and news client) are standalone projects which can be run in isolation from one another, making it possible to replace your tired standard browser with a fresh copy of Firefox without getting all the extra bloat you won’t use.

While Microsoft claims to be a champion of innovation, the Mozilla team has developed features that Explorer still does not have. Christopher Blizzard, one of the Mozilla developers, told NewsFactor that it is all about choice. "One thing that Mozilla does better than all the other browsers out there is that we understand that people want to use the Web in their own ways," he said.

Mozilla Firefox ( release notes | roadmap ) is a completely modular browser consisting of a basic, streamlined framework upon which users can add ' extensions ', which (just as the name implies) are essentially plugins for the browser. The idea of less is more has been taken to the next level with this browser. With the default browser, you have just enough browser to do pretty much anything you can on the Internet, while more advanced, custom functionality is reserved to the extensions.

To install the Apache Server, open up a Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)

sudo apt-get install apache2

Now, you have the option of changing the port your Apache Server runs on. By default it runs on port 80, which is fine if there is only one computer.

Cards is a collection of patience/solitaire card games for Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla 1.x The following games are included: Aces Up, Black Widow, Canfield, Double Solitaire, Grounds for Divorce, Fan, FreeCell, Golf, Gypsy, Klondike (commonly referred to just as "solitaire"), Maze, Mod 3, Montana, Pyramid, Regiment, Russian Solitaire (called Grandfather in past versions), Sanibel, SeaHaven Towers, Simple Simon, Spider Solitaire, TriPeaks, Wasp, Whitehead, and Yukon.

The support for "page icons" is cool, as we have our own Geek.com icon up in the search bar on most pages. IE never quite really seemed to work with this properly, or else maybe our code is bad. I'll have to look into that. Mozilla promises support for the IE "favicon" in Mozilla 0.9.7. I always thought that was a pretty cool idea.

One killer feature of Galeon that you can be sure will be adopted elsewhere is the tabbed browser feature (now adopted by Mozilla itself, since 0.96). Allied to clever bookmarks, it can deliver your selection of favourite sites in one go, neatly in one window.

Other Galeon addicts swear by the fine-grained font scaling, others are partial to the cookie management.

Xft is a client-side API that works with the X server to smooth out fonts and, if available, leverage the X Render extension to accelerate text drawing. If the X Render extension is not available, it uses the base X protocol to draw the client-side glyphs. This, however, can cause a severe performance penalty as it involves fetching pixel information, merging the glyphs with the pixels and then sending them back. Thankfully, most modern versions of Linux ship with X Render included so this isn't be a problem.

Pine can provide all of the above and it was fulfilling my needs just fine. I started using Pine heavily around '98. It was beginning of my undergraduate career. Like most other big schools, our email cluster was in a Sun OS box. I didn't bother installing a POP/IMAP client at home or work. Just ssh to the server, type 'p' (my alias for pine) in the prompt and Walla -- you've got mail. I remember checking my email from the Heathrow airport, I remember checking it from Brazil(Indiana). There are fond memories attached with Pine. I never thought that I would use something else for my email.

Although only a minor upgrade, Mozilla 1.6 gains several features that were missing from the excellent Internet suite—namely, support for NTLM-secured sites and improvements to the mail client. The free, open-source Mozilla remains the best browser option available today, and the mail client has become a viable option for any business.

But luckily, 5 years later, we have a virtual cornucopia of browsers to choose from that run on our favorite operating system. I'm going to give my opinion as to how these stack up, what to expect from them, whether there is a steep or relatively flat learning curve to get them to give you an optimum web surfing experience and what their relative strengths and weaknesses (ie. my pet peeves) are.

Rapid Application Development with Mozilla (hereafter RADM) centers on XUL, Mozilla's XML dialect for describing GUIs. Other Mozilla components, like XBL and RDF, are described mainly in terms of how they plug into XUL. Each chapter presents and explains a component, then shows it in action by using it in an example application (a web-page annotator) developed throughout the book.

This document outlines some of the new features implemented in Mozilla 1.5 Beta, important bugfixes and any new problems. It is by no means a comprehensive list of new features, fixes or bugs."rough changelog" for a more comprehensive list of fixes.

In this article, I'll provide some examples of when to use Mozilla in enterprise Windows and Linux environments. Then, I'll offer a quick guide to some handy Mozilla tools.

There's no universal policy for software deployment, but there are a few good rules of thumb. Here are some basic examples that can help you decide if or when Mozilla technology is right for you.

Mozilla 1.0. When you first heard it, you thought, 'finally!' It sounds exciting, doesn't it? It should. For the first time in Mozilla's long history (4.5 years from conception to 1.0), a browser wasn't released with "beta" or "alpha" attached to it. The single largest open-source project since Linux has one ambition: Topple Microsoft's browser monopoly by producing a browser suite built around a better core renderer, christened "Gecko".

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to add:

• Browser pdf viewing support
  
• Java plugin support
  
• Flash support