On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:04:10 +0800, frankieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miark wrote: > > > > What is the relationship between Mozilla and Firefox, and > > Mozilla-mail and Thuderbird. Are the latter going to eventually > > replace the former? And if if not, why are the Mozilla folks > > promoting competing products? > > > > Miark > > > > One ofthe complaints leveled against the mozilla suite, was feature > bloat, speed etc. > So they split up the apps.. moz mail became thunderbird, mozilla itself > became firefox, the calander app became sunbird and so on. > > When all the stand alones are past ver 1.0, you will start to see them > bundled together to become the "new" mozilla suite. > > They can't replace anything yet because the Firefox is the only app > currently nearing ver 1.0 status. > > Rgds
Decent explanation, but it's important also to realize that they aren't competing against each other in the truest sense of the word. Advances in Firefox are brought into Mozilla and vice versa, even though it's typically Firefox that makes the advances. They are both built in the same rendering engine, so they are really more like siblings than competitors. Some people still want it as a suite. For more, it's sorta addressed in the firefox FAQ: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/support/faq.html#q1.3
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