Re: Mozilla/IE6

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From: C. A. Upsdell (cupsdellXXX_at_-@-@XXXupsdell.com)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:55:02 -0400

"Bill Turner" <noway@nohow.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:46:12 +0100, "Gordon" <me6@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> >The answer is, to do what a lot of people do, and use both! (I run IE and
> >Firefox)
>
> _________________________________________________________
>
> Perhaps you can clarify something for me. Is there a separate "Mozilla"
> browser, independent of Firefox, or are they the same? It seems the
> Mozilla suite of apps includes a browser, but I didn't see where the
> browser alone could be downloaded. Admittedly, I didn't spend a lot of
> time looking.

Mozilla is a suite, including a browser, email program, etc. The browser is
based on the Gecko engine.

Firefox is a browser only, based on the Gecko engine. The companion
eMail/newsgroup program is Thunderbird. Both are betas, with Firefox very
close to being a released product.

Netscape 7 is a suite, including a browser, email program, etc. The browser
is based on the Gecko engine. It is not updated as often as Mozilla and
Firebird are, so usually uses an older, less capable, less secure version of
the Gecko engine: Netscape 7.2 will likely come out soon, and will use the
same version of the Gecko engine as the current versions of Mozilla and
Firefox.

There are a number of other browsers or browser suites based on the Gecko
engine, including Compuserve (uses a VERY old engine), AOL for OS X (also
uses an old version of the engine), Camino for OS X (uses an up-to-date
engine), and the IBM Web Browser for OS/2 (uses a fairly recent version).

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