Re:Just use the full Suite, and be done with it (Score 1)

I've been wondering for a long time, what's it in the FireFox that isn't in Mozilla. I started with Mozaic then moved to Netscape. Played with alpha and beta Mozilla, when it was still very unstable, tried to upgrade Netscape to Netscape 6, when it came out. It was still based on Mozilla .9 if I remember correctly. An upgrade wasn't very successful, because it didn't migrate my email very cleanly. There where miscellaneous problems and glitches with migrated email. It worked fine, if configured from scratch, but not when I migrated it. So, I kept using Netscape 4.7 until Netscape 6.1 came out. It didn't have the problem any more. I loved that all those apps (email/browser/IM/address book/and more recently IRC) were integrated into one app, because I didn't have to start separate applications for different tasks. Also, because they were all using the same core, they (as far as I understand) shared the memory. Less ram used, more ram left for the rest of the tasks.

Up until version 7.1, I was using Netscape. I wanted to switch to Mozilla, because it was already version 1.7 and Netscape got stuck at Mozilla version 1.4, but I didn't want to loose the IM. I was thinking on writing my own IM sidebar extension for Mozilla that would support ICQ and AIM. It would allow me to switch from Netscape to Mozilla. I still had Mozilla installed during time that I was using Netscape and occasionally was upgrading it, but I didn't use it as my default browser because, like I said, Netscape had IM client and all my Email was in Netscape. I started learning XUL, so I could write my own IM extension. After performing some research, found JabberZilla project.

Because of JabberZilla, I finally switched to Mozilla and didn't have to write my own IM. Currently I am using Mozilla.

I played with FireFox ever since it came out and frankly, I didn't see any advantage of using FireFox over Mozilla suite. I didn't see anything special about FireFox that would make it so much better then Mozilla suite. I can't figure out what's all the hype is about.

At first, I thought that it was just a stand alone browser separated from Mozilla suite that has all the same features that the browser in the Mozilla suite, but then found out that not all the browser extensions work the same in Mozilla and FireFox. I started thinking that they have completely different GUI shell, even their Properties box looks completely different.

May be I am so stupid that I don't see the obvious, but please, help me, point out to me, why is everybody dropping Mozilla Suite and switching to FireFox.