[wplug] Exploder to Fire Fox

[Sal Mangiapane]

Vanco, Don wrote:
> Not sure how far-reaching your intentions are with this as far as an "install base" goes, but hopefully you're very aware of what sites your users use with regularity and have tested extensively as FireFox is really not fully baked just yet.  There is no FTP functionality, and no mail/newsgroup tool.  Also, there are some ISP dialers out there (like those from NetZero/Juno/UnitedOn-Line) that will continually set the default browser back to IE.  If your users use OWA they will _hate_ anything other than IE (but FireFox deals with it better than Mozilla), particularly if the Exchange server(s) is/are  5.5 or >.  I don't find myself "needing" IE very often, but sadly I still do for a site or two, and frankly as a "quick browsing FTP client" it's pretty good (albeit lousy at managing actual downloads).  Rumor has is the IE in XP-SP2 is pretty much "all new", perhaps MS has finally brought it past 1998 functionally.....

But you can install Mozilla Thunderbird for the email and news client.

BTW, three or four weeks ago I uninstalled MS Word and Excel because 
I've been using Open Office and I didn't miss them.  Last week I kicked 
out Outlook and IE for Firefox and Thunderbird.

Firefox is considerably faster starting than IE.  Thunderbird ROCKS.  It 
has all the features of Outlook except for a calender and it's mail 
filtering is better and it includes spam filtering which is a huge bonus.

Sal