[Leaplist] Google Chrome

[Jason Boxman]

Fred Moore wrote:
> Jason Boxman wrote:
>> I certainly hope it rocks.  A year ago I finally gave up on Firefox
>> and moved to Opera.  We'll see if it's better than Opera.  Of course,
>> it sounds like it isn't cross platform yet, whereas Opera is.
>>
>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
>>
>> What I really want is a decent client side mail client.  Thunderbird
>> is kind of a joke.  I love KMail, but it isn't cross platform (yet). 
>> With KDE4, Kontact actually builds on Windows, though you have to
>> build it yourself.  I'm hoping for binaries sometime next year.
>>
>>
> I think I will be moving to Chrome NOT..  here we have a billion dollar
> company who owes a huge amount of its profit and success to the open
> source community, and what do they do.. Chrome for windows.. MAC next
> then Linux..  I don't think I will be going there..  Here was a golden
> opportunity to pay back and the open source community gets shit on..   I
> actually used yahoo to search today for the first time in about 5
> years.    This move by google just made me sick..
> 
> As for email.. mutt is your friend..   I can't imagine what kmail can do
> that thunderbird can't.. Fred

Thunderbird lacks any cognisant groupware support.  KMail plugs nicely 
into Kontact, which is entirely kpart based anyway, and it all just 
works.  The closest thing to that for Thunderbird is Lightning paired 
with Sync-Kolab extension, but the latter is an abject failure and 
highly unstable, successfully corrupting my existing calendar entries.

What's more, the general feel of Thunderbird is simply weak.  It never 
fit my workflow effectively, though it's tolerable for sending a few emails.

No one at Mozilla seems to much care about Thunderbird, either.  I get 
the impression it's practically orphaned.  The software quality 
certainly reflects that.  Compare that even with Opera's recent mail 
client, part of Opera itself, which is very forward looking and polished.

I look forward to trying out Horde Groupware, if I ever get time to 
actually install it.  Supposedly it doesn't absolutely require a RDBMS 
to function, but install fails badly if you don't actually set one up, 
so apparently contrary to the documentation it does require a RDBMS.


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