Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

[Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>]

On 12/01/2013 01:40 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 09:43 +0800, gmail wrote:
> > On 12/01/2013 08:45 AM, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:32:57 +0100
> > > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > I suspect that the good MUAs are all without a GUI, hopefully I'm
> > > > mistaken.
> > > Sylpheed is a good GUI MUA.
> > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Ralf
> > > Celejar
> > how about thunderbird ？
> I experienced Mozillas in the past as very good MUAs, but I dropped
> them, because I dislike the policy of Mozilla. My favorite browsers are
> still Mozillas, but I dislike that upstream e.g. does not allowed for
> the distros to start it without their Google startpage, when it runs for
> the first time. This might be different for the Debian Ice* versions,
> but I want to use software that isn't distro specific. Other than most
> Linux users I'm not married with a distro, I want to be able to switch
> between distros, but to stay with the same software.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
You can go to the preferences and choose another start page
if you like. (That's not Thunderbird, of course, that's Firefox.)
Anyway, if you'd rather have Bing, you can have it. Or Yahoo.
Or whatever pleases you.

--doug