Making Phoenix fly even faster

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Now look - I have this oldish PC were I have all flavours of PCLinuxOS installed.  However, after all was said and done, I liked Phoenix best.  The only problem was - it wasn't as fast out of the blocks I would have liked.

So I checked my applications which would start and run slow for me and in the process slow down everything else.  Those were Firefox, Opera and Thunderbird.

So I did some Internet research (big word for googling) and found some alternatives in the flyweight department.  After some testing I settled on 2 applications which make a huge difference:

For internet browsing:  Midori

It's fast, has some bells and whistles and whatever I might be missing in Opera or FF it makes up for in speed - lots of speed.

As an e-mail client:  balsa

Might not be quite as polished or be user friendly as Thunderbird, but it is certainly not complicated, it has a polished GUI and downloads mail from multiple accounts.

Both applications are available through synaptic.

If you want to learn more about these two:

Midori
Balsa

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For those of you who feel that balsa is just a tat to basic I can recommend claws-mail.

More bells and whistles but still fast!