alternate web browser etc...

[Bernard <bdebreil@teaser.fr>]

Hi to Everyone,

I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone 
(iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs 
and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have 
something else too, one of these reasons being that it would be 
initiated with alternate identities, mail addresses etc.. In the 
meantime, this would allow me to test something else, which is the 
reason why I don't plan to install 'Netscape' which is about the same as 
Firefox/Iceweasel, sometimes using same conf files, bookmarks and so on.

Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very 
expensive) ? I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera...

As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new. Up to now, I 
have rarely used "Firefox" for usenet news, as I preferred "pan".  I've 
heard of "pine"  for newsgroups, but I heard that it was kind of hard to 
configure ; this may be wrong. For e-mail, I used to use "staroffice 
mail" in the old days when that did exist (So 5.1 and 5.2), and, ever 
since then, I am using Thunderbird, that is, Icedove on Debian Lenny. 
Alternately, I plan to use 'mutt', which is already up and running on my 
systems ever since 2005 or so, of which I have so far only made I an 
irregular use. Willing to use it again, I lately spent some time 
reconfiguring exim4, but it now seems to operate all right.

Thanks in advance for your insights and advices

Happy New Year to Everyone !

Bernard