The wonders of modern technology...
Dec. 29th, 2004 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusIn my ongoing quest to avoid using Mickeysoft products wherever I can (and if only work would allow me that luxury too!), I've been a long-time user of both Opera and Pegasus as browser and mail program respectively.
The newest version of Opera seems a little crash-prone, however, while Pegasus is currently failing to download messages from my other mail accounts (of the blessedly spam-free variety, since I only use them to receive mail from Yahell rather than post) as previously without me poking it with a sharp stick. I have no idea whether it's due to my upgrading my AVG mail virus-checker recently or just sheer cussedness, but it's annoying. After all, the idea of having broadband is that mail continues to drop as it arrives, not just accumulating on the server - heaven knows Yahell is laggardly enough at times without extra assistance.
So I've been playing with Firefox and Thunderbird as possible replacements. I'm not overly keen on Firefox, unless someone can tell me how to tweak it so that new pages from links pop up as a new tag automatically (and I'm sure some bright spark out there knows just what I mean), so I've gone back to using Opera for now. Meanwhile I quite like Thunderbird, though again I'd like the message filtering to happen automatically and I can't quite make it do that - it's downloading stuff nicely, though, so it's more likely I'll stick with it.
One thing about Thunderbird, it also has an RSS feed viewer integrated into it. My one question is this: how on earth do people keep up with stuff? ;)
The newest version of Opera seems a little crash-prone, however, while Pegasus is currently failing to download messages from my other mail accounts (of the blessedly spam-free variety, since I only use them to receive mail from Yahell rather than post) as previously without me poking it with a sharp stick. I have no idea whether it's due to my upgrading my AVG mail virus-checker recently or just sheer cussedness, but it's annoying. After all, the idea of having broadband is that mail continues to drop as it arrives, not just accumulating on the server - heaven knows Yahell is laggardly enough at times without extra assistance.
So I've been playing with Firefox and Thunderbird as possible replacements. I'm not overly keen on Firefox, unless someone can tell me how to tweak it so that new pages from links pop up as a new tag automatically (and I'm sure some bright spark out there knows just what I mean), so I've gone back to using Opera for now. Meanwhile I quite like Thunderbird, though again I'd like the message filtering to happen automatically and I can't quite make it do that - it's downloading stuff nicely, though, so it's more likely I'll stick with it.
One thing about Thunderbird, it also has an RSS feed viewer integrated into it. My one question is this: how on earth do people keep up with stuff? ;)
Re: Firefox and new tabs
Date: 2004-12-29 06:09 pm (UTC)huh?
Sorry about the other thing... Since I don't use tabs, I don't know what problem there are with the setting :)
Re: Firefox and new tabs
Date: 2004-12-29 06:14 pm (UTC)As for the rss thing, if you find various livejournal recs communities, you can use the rss feed bookmark facility on Firefox to create a feed which will inform you in Thunderbird every time the community is updated. The height of laziness!