I use Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird for my web browser and email client respectively. I’ve come to enjoy several extensions for them. For Firefox, Tabbrowser Preferences, All-in-One Gestures, and Google Bar are indispensable for navigation. For Thunderbird, the Display Mail User Agent and Display Mailing List Header offer the very desirable features of displaying icons identifying the software used by an email sender and displaying quick links for unsubscribing from listservers. I use more extensions, but these are my favorites.
I recommend that everyone drop Internet Explorer and upgrade to the more advanced Firefox. Several features on this site are not available to Internet Explorer users because of its primative engine.
Wow! Cool! It even let me import all my “Favorites” and everything! Anything I can do to weed Bill Gates and the nightmares he causes out of my life I am willing to try!
I love Firefox, but I’m reluctant to switch email clients. I’ve used Pegasus for years (part of my “no Microsoft communication clients program) and my whole life (well, the whole of the electronic part of it) is in Pegasus – archived correspondence, and address books and contact info. I’m not at all sure I’m ready to put in the hours that will be necessary to migrate to Thunderbird manually, since there doesn’t appear to be any automated migration help out there.
I used to use Pegasus back in the day. An easy way to migrate your Pegasus mail is to transfer it to an IMAP server and then transfer it back to Thunderbird. I can give you and IMAP account if you want.
Here is some more information about migrating to Thunderbird.
Thanks, Reed. It’ll be a while – I’m up to my eyeballs in expansion (of business) at the moment, and can’t risk screwing it up for any length of time for a bit.
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