angelsvintageattic wrote:hmmm so far I do like the names...Fire Fox...Thunder Bird....all animals..can deal with that!
It's not that I'm partial to OE..It's just that it's all I've used since the beginning of time. OH...no..I take that back..wayyyyyyy back in the mid 90's I used Netscape and loved that email and didn't want to switch to OE but when I got another computer it came with OE so I got used to it...so basically...I've been using OE for over 10 years since that switch and now I'm used to it. I don't take to changes very well until I'm forced!
Now..say I downloaded this firefox and thunderbird..what would I do with IE and OE? Uninstall them?? Leave them??
You would just leave them, they're pretty integrated with windows anyway, and IE is handy to keep around for the few websites you come across now and then that are still IE compatible only.
But you really don't have to give up outlook express if you don't want to, you can use OE and use firefox just fine. Thunderbird or any other client is up to you if you want to switch. Personally I still use Eudora which at this point is verging on archaic (hasn't been updated in a few years now, though they are working on a open source version now, but haven't tried it out yet). Which is basically because Eudora was the first client I used when I first got net back in 1996, and it is the only email client to this day that I like any.... If OE works for you, stick with it, but it does share some of the downsides security was that was mentioned about IE. (less secure, plus outlook in general is a bigger target). I don't personally like the feel of thunderbird, but that's just me. It shares advantages that FF has, added security, plus add-on extensions and themes.