Yup. Thunderbird is Mozilla's answer to Outlook Express.
If it's as good as FireFox, it's going to be a hit!
http://www.mozilla.org/
[Edited 12/7/04 19:18pm]

Sweet! I'm downloading it right now! I LOVE FireFox and now that Gmail allows you to use email clients to check mail, yay!

What is all this stuff about ? What's Gmail and what's FireFox...? yes, I'm a dummy when it comes to this stuff...

applekisses said:

Gmail is google's new mail service (similar to hotmail, etc but MUCH MUCH MUCH better! You get 1 gigabyte of storage plus a lot more)....FireFox is a replacement browser for Internet Explorer - I love it!

(btw: Gmail is still in testing phases and you need an invitation to join - if you'd like one, orgnote me....)

applekisses said:

FireFox is a new browser, by Mozilla.
It's almost the same as IE, but seems to be a bit better.
It's open source, so that means everyone can participate in improving the browser.
Now they have ThunderBird, which comes to replace Outlook Express. Same idea, same company behind it.

G-Mail now lets you get your e-mail straight to your e-mail program, if it's outlook express, or any other program. That way the mail stays in your computer, and you don't have to log on to the net every time you want to read old e-mails.

ReturnOfDOOK said:

Thanks! But, what makes Gmail better than hotmail? And...what makes FireFox/Thunderbird better than Internet Explorer?

applekisses said:

G-Mail has 1 Giga of storage. Not sure how much Hotmail has these days.

Heavenly said:

They just upgraded to 250MB...

applekisses said:

Read a few posts back. I've explained everything

250 is still not a giga and hotmail is still Microsoft

applekisses said:

Gmail allows you to do a lot more than hotmail, etc... one of the main features that I like is that you can apply "filters" to incoming emails...so, when my wireless bill comes via email, it'll automatically put it in my "wireless" folder and indicate that there are new emails...plus, you can search by email address, filter, etc...I'm doing a very poor job of explaining, I know, I know... check out www.gmail.com and they should tell you quite a bit about it...

applekisses said:

Well, the only drawback with Firefox is that some website are still only suited for Internet Explorer(IE) Browsers so I've heard.

I've solely been using Firefox for the past year, and the sites that don't work properly in it have been few and far between. The problem is caused by Internet Explorer not following the WWW specifications, and then programmers writing their web pages incorrectly just to run on Internet Explorer. In short, IE is holding the web back.

Firefox isn't just a little better than Internet Explorer, but in fact a *lot* better. Just to be brief, I'll give you the two most compelling reasons to use it.

* Much, much, less vulnerable to viruses and spyware.

* Tabbed browsing. When you click on a link with the middle mouse button (the roll wheel) or click at the same time as pressing the 'ctrl' key, the link opens in a new tab, just like a worksheet in Excel. After trying this out you'll wonder how you ever coped with Internet Explorer's one-page-one-window.

Download and it give it a go. You won't regret it.

I use Thunderbird too. Not much to say, it does exactly what I need.