Firefox3 Gone!

I have been using firefox since early in version 1 and could honestly never have seen myself changing. How wrong I was, after installing FF3 on my gentoo desktop, boom! Several incidents of firefox becoming unresponsive and winding up being unable to kill it (known as uninterruptible sleep) has caused me to look elsewhere.

I was sure that I didn't want to leave the great firefox behind completely so I began by looking at web browsers that were based on the engine (known as Gecko). First up was Kazehakase it is a really nice lightweight browser. I found it to be quick and responsive on everything as well. Off to a good start I wondered if I'd even bother trying something else! The next one I tried was Galeon which was a really nice browser but I think that the lightweight kazehakase had a minor edge on it still. The final one I tried was Epiphany and in short, its the one! It basically provided me with 90% of what I was looking for in a browser, a quick install of the extensions package gave me an ad-blocker. Another quick copy of the firefox plug-in directory gave me flash and my stored password. The only thing that its missing is a NoScript style tool. With the amount of trash that is out on the web its nice to have the option not to run javascript on some sites.

Hooray again for open source, providing me an alternative to firefox. Epiphany is well worth a try to anyone currently looking for a mozilla-based browser.