Since Brendon Eich left Mozilla, things have got worse. Thunderbird, which has been my default email client for years, is continuing giving me indications it is opening and closing things.

I come back to 20 or 30 error messages: and I’m using a heavily modified version of Fedora called Chapeau which I have then modified further to run Cinnamon, which I keep up to date.

Time to remove them. Again. So further notes.

• Of the Browsers, Pale Moon seems the most stable and rock solid. The only difficulty I have is with some videos, but flash is a security risk, and this is a feature, not a bug. Chromium does not exist in Fedora, for good reason. Vivaldi may be an alternative.
• For email, Balsa works. With my University email and with my personal server. Evolution, however, is better: it understands microsoft email exchanges, and integrates well. And it handles google mail. So… choose.

I should add that, for work, I live and die on email. Most of my projects involve multiple authors, in multiple countries. Everything is asynchronous: the email I get from an editor in the UK is answered when I’m awake and reviewed when I’m asleep. Email clients matter.

And the Mozilla foundation has dropped the ball. I’m using evolution as the primary email client, keeping Balsa up as backup.

UPDATE

A commentator suggests Vivaldi. He’s got a point: it seems fast and fairly stable. Evolution is now working well, including syncing with my University work calendar. And Vivaldi, on Fedora, automatically installs using Yumex, which keeps the repositories current.