Bitwise Evolution

Musings of a Seattle-area hacker with a bent on improving digital lifestyles.

Category: eye candy

Cleaning up my browser.

I’m done with firefox — Opera 10 now plays flash well, has adblock via. urifilters, a cleaner UI (no menubar, a menu button!) vertical tabs are supported natively, etc… I don’t really like the widget toolkit used in the file open/save dialog, but that’s much better than the horrid performance/stability/bizarre bugs of Firefox.

The minimal UI [...]

Vanity, chapter 1

…empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one’s personal attainments or decorations; [1913 Webster]

I’m a sucker for pretty desktops and window managers. This weakness has yet to make me succumb to the lure of a full Gnome (or KDE) desktop, however. (Although I did play with the hack kludge known as XGL/compiz [...]