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===Comparison between Mozilla products===
===Comparison between Mozilla products===
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Revision as of 05:24, 19 February 2004

Comparison between Mozilla products

I've gone ahead and locked down this page for now, let's focus on other areas for a while :).

Feature Mozilla Suite Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Thunderbird Camino
Current Version 1.6 0.8 0.5 0.7
Platforms Supported
Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, others
Mac OS X
Web Browser Yes Yes No Yes
Mail/News Client Optional No Yes No
HTML Editor Optional No No No
IRC Client Optional No No No
Development Tools
DOM Inspector / Javascript debugger (both optional)
None None

Comparison between web browsers

Feature Mozilla Suite/Firefox Camino Opera Apple Safari Microsoft Internet Explorer
Version Mozilla Suite: 1.6; Firefox: 0.8 0.7 7.23 1.2 6.0 SP1
Platforms Supported Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, others Mac OS X Windows Linux, Symbian, Motorola, others Mac OS X Windows
Cost Free Free $39 (or free with ads) Bundled Bundled
Open Source Yes Yes No Partially No
Tabbed Browsing Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Popup Blocker Yes Yes Yes Yes Add-on only
Form / Password Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes Limited / via add-on
Themes Many Some Many Via separate application Via separate application
Extensions Many None None Some Some
Customisability Extensive (e.g. via about:config) ? Ridiculously extensive (e.g. via prefs and .ini files) ? Extensive (e.g. via prefs, registry, policy files)

There is also a comparison of supported web standards

Comparison between email clients

Feature Mozilla Suite/Thunderbird Eudora Apple Mail Outlook Express Outlook
Version Mozilla: 1.6; Thunderbird: 0.5 6.0 1.3.3 6.0 2003
Platforms Supported Windows, Mac OS X and Linux Windows, Mac OS Mac OS X Windows Windows
Cost Free $49.95 (or free with ads) Bundled Bundled approx $90 (or bundled with MS Office)
Open Source Yes No No No No
Ability to Block Spam Bayesian spam filter Yes, in paid version only Bayesian and statistical spam filter Needs third-party program Predefined and manual filters only
Extensions Yes No ? No Yes
Customisability Extensive (e.g. via about:config) ? ? ? ?
Themes Some No No No No