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Firefox
I have used Mozilla FireBird 0.7 for some time and have been very happy with it. Now version 0.8 is out, with many a bug fix, and it has been renamed yet again, to Firefox.
(2004-02-23: If you like the endless renaming, try Firesomething, which will randomly change the product name in the titlebar. Fireemu, Lightninggoat, Supersheep, etc. Mildly hilarious.)
The customizable toolbars are nice, the search bar for Google plus a zillion Mycroft plugins is very convenient, the vast array of extensions for seemingly every need are great, and it is a good performer even on what would now be considered very slow hardware, at least if you have plenty of RAM. The new download manager, so far, is nice. The bookmark-add dialog has gotten even more elaborate, which I am so far undecided on.
As is usual in the open-source world, a less-than-unity version number shouldn’t stop you from trying it. If 0.8 is this good, just imagine 1.0. I highly recommend it.
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