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Somehow my copy of Mozilla on my office account seems to be completely broken finally. It would begin to start up, do 10 seconds of animation in the KDE panel and then vanish again. I never really liked it anyway and wasn't prepared to delete my preferences folder – fearing that I'd have to wade through Mozilla's zillions of preference panels again. I quickly tried KDE's browser which didn't even display these very pages properly. Odd, considering that they're just fine in Safari which uses the same rendering engine.
Thus, I decided to give Firebird (funny start page that contains a link to their product page
– why?), née Phoenix, a go, which everybody has been very positive about. And I was impressed. Getting to use it was as simple as download, uncompress, find the correct file among the masses of executables and double click. Right! No extra libraries to download, no root privileges to have, no kernels to recompile or any of the other annoyances that make Linux a royal pain to use in anything but the default setup.
That's great. Apparently usable sofware can be done for Linux. Cool. Of course it's not quite as nice as on the Mac and it wasn't long before I discovered a few things I'd consider glitches in the UI, but it's definitely tolerable this way. And the browser itself is nice, sleek and fast as well. And it didn't copy Mozilla's habit of crashing frequently.
And for laughs: a link to the fifty most common used CDs. Hm, and a new Belle and Sebastian record.
I use Firebird at work, where I’ve been sentenced to use Windows. It’s definitely usable, especially compared to Internet Explorer, which makes my head ache with its stupidities.
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