Change Linspire to Opera by default

[Thulemanden]

The standard Mozilla installed by default is terribly slow.
Opera is a racing car compared.

I suggest Linspire dumps Mozilla and uses Opera as default browser so people don't get a bad, slow impression at first. People who know they want Mozilla, SeaMonkey or Firefox will find no trouble in replacing the fast Opera with the slower browsers. Using Opera also gets rid of the slow mail client.

[DrHu]

Using Opera also gets rid of the slow mail client.
Bad idea I think, we may all have our favourite browsers, but as a base install, the mozilla derived products are probably the best choice..
Mozilla, mozilla/firfefox
http://www.deepspace6.net/docs/ar01s10.html
--I used opera when it was initially released and was the only general option besides netscape, and before firefox came on the scene..I quite liked it, and recently tried it again ver 9.2, again quite like it.

Then there is always konqueror for the Freespire KDE desktop, again a fast browser...

For freespire one option could have been..
Use konqueror as the default and install opera, firefox or others as you prefer.

Opera as the mail client..
I am quite happy with kmail, and I don't really like the integration of browser and email and what else (calendar, maps or anything that could be added), we are in the world of Ajax now..
--but I did use it at one time..

I personally don't like the idea of integrating too much into one app, ex. I don't intend to use google search + google mail, I prefer not linking too much identity to one vendor..
--for the same reason I wont use msn messenger + hotmail, I prefer my vendors (advertisers) to be kept as separate as possible..

And in that same veign, I wont have my credit card in the same bank I have my accounts, once again I dont like giving the vendor (bank) too much personal identity associated with me..and too much control over accounts (same with the internet vendors or publicists (Google, AOL, Yahoo, MSN))

If we were trying to be as light as possible, the simplest workstation (pc) is a thin client that connects to the internet and does everything online, including office apps
--either with ajax enabled browser features or java to provide a richer client. There are a few of these network computing models available, including from Google, excepting they run on fat clients (windows or other OS on that PC)

[StanTheMan]

I have Seamonkey and Opera , can't see any difference in speed.
Seamonkey has by far the best e-mail client for handling multiple mailing lists, editing them on the fly, and has a good feature to indicate totals in every folder immediately, so you are immediately reminded of something in an unopened folder, and address books can be quickly backed up with the standard LDIF system.

[Thulemanden]

Well, it's every man for himself then :-)