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 possible with Opera is also a major win in my book.

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 for a month or so.) I alternate between Enlightenment and FVWM, however, I do use a fair number of GTK apps. Eventually, I hope to create some gtk apps, (or wxWidgets, or etc… it all boils down to gtk showing up on screen though). Up ’till now I’ve suffered through with the dreadfull defaults — in my opinion, of course — but that just changed with gtk-theme-switch2.

It is awesome :) theme loading, previewing, setting, etc.. all without a hint of the gnome infrastructure to screw your keyboard layout, fonts, or power management.