[NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox vs Mozilla

[Burton Strauss]

Both use the same html rendering engine, Gecko.  Other browsers do too - the
other major Linux rendering engine is KHTML.

As Mozilla grew more and more features, there was a {desire, need, push} for
a lighter weight pure browser, hence Firefox.  So it's probably nicer to say
that Firefox is what Mozilla was once-upon-a-time.

While both use Gecko, some things I've read indicate that Firefox uses a
frozen copy of Gecko, not a shared copy that might be installed by other
tools.  Thus they SHOULD co-exist, but I haven't tried it extensively.
YMMV.

-----Burton

 

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Greg Edwards
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:09 AM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox vs Mozilla

I haven't had the time to find out what the differences are between Firefox
and Mozilla.  As I understand it Firefox is a lightweight version of
Mozilla?

What is gained by using Firefox as opposed to Mozilla?  Can you run both on
the same workstation without causing configuration and preference issues?

TIA,
--
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
Custom software for an off the rack world http://consult.nas-inet.com

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