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Revision as of 18:45, 10 February 2004

Comparison between Mozilla products

Feature Mozilla Suite Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Thunderbird Camino
Current Version 1.6 0.8 0.5 0.7
Web Browser Yes Yes No Yes
OS Supported
Linux, Mac OS X, Win32
Mac OS X
Email Client Yes No Yes No
HTML editor Yes No No No
IRC Client Yes, via install Extension N/A No
DOM Inspector Yes, via install N/A No

Comparison between web browsers

Feature Mozilla - Firefox - Camino (Gecko) Opera Apple Safari Microsoft Internet Explorer (Windows) MyIE2 Microsoft Internet Explorer (Mac)
Version Mozilla: 1.6; Firefox: 0.8; Camino: 0.7 7.23 1.2 6.0 SP1 0.9.13 5.2.3
Licensing Freeware Adware or Commercial Bundled Bundled Freeware Freeware
Open Source Yes No Partially No No No
Standards Support Excellent Very Good Excellent Poor Excellent w/ Gecko Engine; Poor w/IE Engine Moderate
Speed (only applies to slow computers) Speedy Good Speedy Speedy Good Good
Security Excellent Excellent Excellent Problems w/ ActiveX; too popular Same as IE Excellent
Extensiblity Via XUL/chrome Limited, via documented sources (.ini, etc.) Via plug-ins (undocumented?) Via documented COM component system/Win32 shell API Via hacks None, but should be viable via hacks
Customizability Good Excellent Good Moderate Good Good
Popup Blocker Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
Privacy Support Excellent Excellent Excellent Lacking Unknown Unknown
Form/Password Manager Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Tabbed Browsing Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
Themes Many Many Via separate application None Many Built in
Mouse Gestures Yes, via extension Yes Yes, via plug-in No Yes No
OS Support Win32, Mac OS X, Linux Win32, Linux, Outdated Mac OS support Mac OS X Win32 Win32 Mac OS, Mac OS X

Comparison between email clients

Feature Mozilla/Thunderbird Opera's M2 Apple Mail Eudora Outlook Express
Version Mozilla: 1.6; Thunderbird: 0.5 7.23 1.3.3 6.0 6.0
Licensing Freeware Adware or Commercial Bundled Adware or Commercial Bundled
Open Source Yes No No No No
Ability to Block Spam Bayesian spam filter Statistical spam filter Bayesian and statistical spam filter Yes, in paid version only Needs third-party program
Extensiblity Via XUL Via documented sources (.ini, etc.) Via plug-ins No No
Themes Some Many No No No
OS Support Win32, Mac OS X, Linux Win32, Linux Mac OS X Win32, Mac OS Win32, Mac OS