Tried Opera, but didn't really like it!

I use Firefox even though it is buggy and crashes from time to time!

> I just finished signing a new client with about 400 pcs that will be
> fully moved over to Ubuntu 7.04.

In Oklahoma? Amazing!

I've read mixed reports for Opera as a web browser and their email
client. I've used Firefox and Thunderbird - their excellent plugins give
them a great advantage over alternatives. I have to say for four years
none of the others have been worth considering IMHO. I receive a
considerable amount of email and to mention one plugin i couldn't live
without ImportExportTools - used to back up each years emails. No other
email client offers such flexibility.

I have tried Opera several times but I always end up going back to
Mozilla after a while. And I still try out the new versions when they
are released but nah, something is always missing.

As for email, I use Evolution and think it is a great program. I would
like to try Thunderbird but since it (for some very strange reason)
refuse to import anything from Evolution I won't even bother.

I used Evolution for a while and while it did have some really nice
features, the thing that bugged me was that it took forever to switch
from Email to Calendar, and that simple things like coloring a certain
email blue when it came in would never work.

I just read a file by ConocoPhillips submitted by a European field
office. They were trying out Evolution and they concluded overall that
it slowed up productivity.

Well, if anyone knows of a solid Outlook replacement please let me know.

Since we are on this subject, I only use Opera to test out my webpages.
I have found it is as particular as IE and so I don't have to fire up
Microsoft to check the file.

Also as a windows user I have used Lotus Organizer. Which was bought out
by IBM and they dropped Organizer. This is the only program that I miss
from Windows. The last version of Organizer will not install using
Wine. So does anybody know of a similar program. Those that are
mentioned in Synaptic are bare bone basic programs with very little to
offer.

I used the whole suite on OS/2 and miss the lot... factor of
familiarity

I favour Korganizer for calendar and scheduling.

I use Opera every day. Correction, I used to use Opera every day when I
was on my--now history--Win2Kpro platform. I'm at about day 3 of my
"convert to Kubuntu 7.10" project and have yet to install it on my new
desktop.

I bought 4 licenses to Opera probably 5 or more years ago now, 2 for
OS/2, one for WinDoze and one for Linux and have been using it since
v5.1 or so. Once you ascend the learning curve to use all of its
features, it is very difficult to go back to Netscape, Mozilla, or
FireFox. It is lightning fast, mouse gestures make navigating websites
extremely intuitive. Run it up to 30 tabs and the mouse-over preview of
the page under the tab becomes invaluable, tabbed windows are resizable
so you can drag links from the eBay listing and drop them into another
window. It just empowers you on the web.

I can easily understand why your client is addicted and I think I'll see
about getting it installed on my new system now.

When I changed to linux I found it very difficult to deal with email
and web browsing. Working in Moscow all I had was older computers with
IE and Outlook Express. Then we got newer (still very old) computers
and those had IE and full Outlook. I didnt like IE and used Firefox
when I could but Outlook I have to say that I never had a problem with.
When I moved to Ubuntu I tried Evolution but found it dragged horribly
when changing screens. I couldnt get it to move to the calendar. It
would just hang. And the more email I got the worse it got.

how much ram do you have? I have 2GB and it still hangs.

The old system was barely a P2 with 512mb but I have now new system
with AMD and 2gb of ram. I tried to work with Evolution again on my new
system but it still had slow issues. I went to Thunderbird and its
perfect. I still need a calender for work though.

Removing evolution is the first thing I remove on a fresh install. I
found it to be the root of many system hangs and stalls

I use Korganizerbut it occurs to me there may be a good add on for
firefox as well. Email goes to clawsmail.

For me Firefox is the better, atleast there is some source you can use
there, opera is directly trying to remove sources from the public, I
do not support that.

What do you want to support GNU (and freedom) or Open Source Movement
(and practical benefits ???)
I choose GNU even though there is some things you can't do with free
software just yet, but it is very limited and there is a lot of
practical benefits from free software (such as price) - can be sort of
commercial but it kind of misses the point that people should share,
so commercial would probably miss that.
Anyway support Gnu!
Ubuntu is a very much so Gnu distro [actually a gnu system with the
linux kernel]
so support Gnu - I think the creater of ubuntu made the point that the
system should be free (hence the choice of Gnome)
Gnome is partly written by Richard Stallman I think - at least he
wrote some parts of it or was somehow somewhere in the development
process.

Thats great and all but, its only user experience and ease of use and
maintainability that companies are going to really look at. A certain
faction will always look at it the way you do, and though you may have a
point, when it comes to the business case of using it - "Will it work
for my company?" is all that matters to them.