Why was Firefox and Thunderbird chosen?
Firefox and Thunderbird were chosen for a number of reasons outlined below: • Several web standards have been enhanced or newly created since the old Netscape browser suite was made available. With new technologies such as dynamic HTML and improvements in things such as cascading style sheets, a newer browser was required to support these standards. Firefox has very good support on a number of emerging web standards and continually evolves to include new ones. • Both Firefox and Thunderbird are open source and supported by a large number of developers who continually enhance it to support emerging web standards and to add new features. • Both Firefox and Thunderbird support a number of operating system platforms so that it can be used on any personal computer that runs Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. • Both Firefox and Thunderbird support add-ons that allow other developers to create additional functionality for them. • Seneca College is also proud to be involved in several Mozilla project
