jesus X wrote:
>
> Short answer: Is there one? No. Can there be one? Yes, but at a negligible
> savings. Strip out the browser's chrome, and references to it, strip out some of
> the Composer chrome and references to it as well, and you have a mail/news only
> version. Or, you can just use the full version, not use the browser section, and
> save yourself a big hassle. :)
I don't think the original poster was asking because of the space
savings, but because of the potential stability gains from having
mail/news crashes not bring down the browser and vice versa. Since I
started using Mozilla mail/news I've had at least 4 or 5 instances where
I'd spent tens of minutes filling in information into a web form only to
have the whole thing crash because new mail came in! I'd gladly pay the
cost of having mozilla resident in memory *twice* if it would mean not
having *everything* crash.
And of course, having two mozillas in memory doesn't necessarily imply
double the memory usage, because most of it can be shared anyway (shared
libraries etc)...
Stuart.
