Thursday, January 26, 2006

Abandoning Mozilla

Mozilla completely fried on me again, which meant I lost my bookmarks, and my email account wouldn't work. This has happened before, and there's a way to fix it all -- create a new Mozilla profile, then a new email account, then find the email files in the old profile and copy them to the new file, etc. I've done it about three times now. But I decided not to do it again. I'm making the move to Firefox and Thunderbird.

I've been using Firefox as my general browser for a long time. But for Paid-to-Read emails, I like Mozilla better, because the email client works so well with the browser. Firefox and Thunderbird aren't as smoothly integrated (I may be the only one who thinks so), but if I don't have to rebuild my email account every six months or so, it's worth it. And I really dig Firefox.

And Thunderbird is working fine, too. Now I've just got to re-create all my email folders and filters so that my email is organized the way I like it. Doing Paid-to-Read Email programs, it's soooooo much easier if you use filters.