Actually, Thunderbird is thriving on its own. Many new features since leaving Mozilla, good donations, hired good developers, the product is strong. Personally, I think Firefox is the best, but that's a personal decision. No, you do not need Firefox at all. Good luck with Chrome (my wife uses it, so it can't be bad).

Thanks David,

I also think Firefox is a better browser, but I have to use what works best with the sites I access. 20 years + ago I used to work on web applications to make them multi-browser compliant and its disappointing that there hasn't been full convergence in that time. Advising non-computer literate laptop users, Edge has to be a favourite as its already installed.

Mail is another story though, Its been a journey, just to maintain mail functionality! I hate web mail applications with a vengance and thunderbird does the job pulling together all the mail from multiple sources and protocols. Outlook express was fine until it was killed off. I always thought Thunderbird was the best application Mozilla had.

Chris

Thanks for sharing that. I do understand the issue with Edge; it's already there.

You can have both Firefox and Chrome installed as you can use Chrome for any sites that Chrome seems to work better for you.

Also I would prefer Chromium over Chrome if given the option.