From: Cap1MD@att.net   
      
   Keith nuttle wrote:   
   > As I understand Sea Monkey is functionally an upgrade of Netscape 7.2   
   > with newsgroups, browse, and mail integration.   
   >   
   > Will Firefox and Thunderbird provide the same newsgroup, mail and   
   > browser functionality?   
   >   
   > Is Thunderbird and Firefox work from with in each other ie. icon to call   
   > up the other from the tool bar?   
   >   
   > Will either work with the Windows "send to" email function?   
   >   
      
   Netscape 7.2 was sourced from Mozilla Application Suite 1.7.2.   
   SeaMonkeu is, essentially, what should have been Mozilla 1.8, has   
   progressed from there.That makes SeaMonkey the most direct replacement   
   for the functionality inherent in Netscape 7.2.   
      
   Firefox and Thunderbird are separate application, not connected like the   
   components of Netscape.  If you click a link in Thunderbird, the link   
   will open in the system default browser.  Clicking a mailto link in   
   Firefox will open a Compose window in the system default email client.   
      
   If both FF and TB are set as system defaults, it will work as you   
   desire.  But if you have Internet Esxlorer set as default, links are   
   going to open in IE.   
      
   One advantage of separate applications is that if one crashes, the other   
   is not affected.  For example, in NS 7.2/SeaMonkey, if you have both the   
   browser and Mail/News open, if you encounter a flawed web page that   
   crashed the browser, Mail crashes right along with it.  With the FF TB   
   combination, only Firefox would crash.   
      
   Both FF and TB are more customizable as far as appearance, in that you   
   can move buttons from toolbar to toolbar, decide exactly which to   
   display.  Also Thundebird has RSS capability which SeaMonkey Mail   
   currently lacks.   
      
   As to your last question, what's Windows?  ;0   
      
   Seriously, I'm on a Mac, I really don't know.   
      
   Lee   
      
      
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