# Installing Mozilla Suite 1.4 versus Firefox and Thunderbird Separately **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 30, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-mozilla-suite-1-4-versus-firefox-and-thunderbird-separately/350492 "2006-03-30T02:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-mozilla-suite-1-4-versus-firefox-and-thunderbird-separately/350492/1 "2006-03-30T02:19:48Z")
Yesterday, I installed Firefox and Thunderbird separately, only to learn this evening about Mozilla Suite 1.4. Apparently, this suite combines Firefox and Thunderbird. Should I delete Firefox and Thunderbird, and reinstall the integrated suite, or did I do okay? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-mozilla-suite-1-4-versus-firefox-and-thunderbird-separately/350492/2 "2006-03-30T03:18:57Z")
The current Mozilla Suite is [Version 1.7.12](http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/) and was released on September 21, 2005. Mozillia Suite 1.4 was released in 2003. If you want the suite as opposed to Firefox and Thunderbird separately, you should to download and install [SeaMonkey 1.0](http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/) instead. > [@](#): > > The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as “Mozilla Application Suite”. Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have “everything but the kitchen sink” — and have it stable enough for corporate use. It doesn’t hurt to have Mozzie, Firefox and Thunderbird all installed. I have all of them, plus SeaMonkey, Opera and _cough_ IE _cough_ installed. Firefox is my main squeeze. ---
**Author:** ![Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Carnac\_the\_Magnificent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnac_the_Magnificent)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-mozilla-suite-1-4-versus-firefox-and-thunderbird-separately/350492/3 "2006-03-30T03:56:46Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > The current Mozilla Suite is [Version 1.7.12](http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/) and was released on September 21, 2005. Mozillia Suite 1.4 was released in 2003. > > If you want the suite as opposed to Firefox and Thunderbird separately, you should to download and install [SeaMonkey 1.0](http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/) instead. > > It doesn’t hurt to have Mozzie, Firefox and Thunderbird all installed. I have all of them, plus SeaMonkey, Opera and _cough_ IE _cough_ installed. Firefox is my main squeeze. Is there any advantage to having SeaMonkey (or Mozilla 1.7.12 installed, rather than Firefox and Thunderbird separately? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installing-mozilla-suite-1-4-versus-firefox-and-thunderbird-separately/350492/4 "2006-03-30T07:05:48Z")
> [@Carnac the Magnificent!](#): > > Is there any advantage to having SeaMonkey (or Mozilla 1.7.12 installed, rather than Firefox and Thunderbird separately? Mozilla Suite includes several items: - browser (Mozilla, quite similar to Firefox) - email (similar to Thunderbird) - newsgroups client - HTML editor - probably some more stuff So this is an advantage, having all this installed in one package. If you use all of those items. If you don’t use them all, it’s a disadvantage, because you’ve loaded down your computer with big programs you aren’t using.