Comments on: Six flavors of Firefox

What flavor of Firefox is right for you?

[edythemighty]

Firefox Flavors

This post has a rather strange title, can Songbird really be considered a "flavor" of Firefox? For me, the little I have used it, I find it to being something that has fit into its own niche. Now, Camino/Netscape/Ebay/Campus, those might be considered flavors, except for maybe the ebay and campus editions, seeing as how all they really bring with them are extensions suited for their tasks. The Campus edition has Stumbleupon pre-installed, which some view as a time-waster, and used unwisely maybe, but it can also lead you to many similar pages, such as articles in the same field of study. That being said...I still think the campus library is much more helpful.

[Alarm Clock]

Portable Firefox runs off a USB Stick

Your forgot Firefox Portable, which runs 100% off of any USD Stick:

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

I've been using this fine product for years now, and it makes it VERY convenient to have all of my web passwords at home, at work, on vacation, and wherever I want to take my USB Stick.

I highly recommend it.

[menotbug]

Firefox flavors: 3rdparty builds or Gecko shells ?

If Camino is counted as a flavor of Firefox, then you'd also have to include K-Meleon/K-Ninja/K-meleonCCF and Galeon/Epiphany which would be way off base. And the few lesser known gecko and gecko/trident based browsers/browser shells.

Or flavors, as in 3rd party unofficial builds like Musume, pigfoot, swiftfox, autofox, and a number of others at pryan.org/phoenix/

Wouldn't call Portable Firefox a firefox flavor either, it's really just 'free the fox' made a somewhat more user-friendly but way more limited.

[PaulKB]

Did you forget about SeaMonkkey?

SeaMonkey is my favorite GECKO (the rendering engine used in FireFox) based bowser. Why? SeaMonkey integrates email/newsreader with the browser very well. In SeaMonkey , for example, a url link in an email message can be made to open in a new tab in the browser. It also contains a simple HTLM editor good for building uncomplicated web pages in a hurry.

Don't dismiss SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey is a "community developed project" sponsored by Mozilla. It continues the development of the Mozilla Internet Suite. I love it. SeaMonkey is all I need (well 99% of what I need) when I navigate the internet. It is fast. Best of all it is both browser and email and thus takes up much less memory than running both FireFox and ThunderBird. Why? Seamonkey loads only one copy of the Gecko rendering engine whereas FF and TB each load their own copy of the Gecko rendering engine If you keep both FF and TB open at the same time you will use more memory and computer resources than running SeaMonkey.