[wplug] Exploder to Fire Fox

[Jason Jerome]

I use Firefix and Thunderbird quite extensively at work.  I have
Outlook 2003 installed on my computer, but it is just too bloated and
slow for me to ever get anything useful out of it.  Lucky for me my
work uses a POP server for mail.

Thunderbird has a Calendar extenstion that provides calendar features -
but it lacks functionality to easily share calendar information (a
calendar server).  As far as I know Outlook can't share Calendar
information without an Exchange server.

What I really wish would be worked out is a shared
calender/todo/address  server solution.  Most of the offices I've
worked in that use Exchange somehow can't get it all worked out
correctly anyway.  It would be nice to have a nice, quick and easy
solution available.  







--- Sal Mangiapane <salm at servanttechnology.com> wrote:
> 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
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