{"id":12,"date":"2008-06-25T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T16:22:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T16:22:45","slug":"making_the_switch_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/2008\/06\/25\/making_the_switch_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a few days ago fiefox-3 was pulled in during the regular system updates, and after a few hours of using it I must say: it sucks even more than firefox-2, which IMHO was already a regression from earlier versions. Actually I think that since they changed the name from phoenix [i]my[\/i] user experience has gotten worse with each new version. Now I have to admit I&#8217;m probably not a typical user, so firefox-3 might be an improvement for the majority, but I&#8217;m really fed up with it.<br \/>\nAs neither konqueror (kde-centric) nor opera (binary-only) are alternatives for me I looked out for other broswers out there today and noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/arora\/\">Arora<\/a>, a new qt-webkit based browser and decided to try it out. And I must say I really like it so far, though I&#8217;ve only used it for a few hours so far. It feels a lot like older firefox versions, just without much of the &#8220;user-friendly&#8221; bloat they&#8217;ve added over time (e.g. the new fancy addressbar in firefox-3). It&#8217;s still a very early version, so obviously it&#8217;s lacking some features (like no flash support, though I consider that more as a feature :>) and probably has a few bugs, but at the moment I like it (much) better than what has become of firefox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a few days ago fiefox-3 was pulled in during the regular system updates, and after a few hours of using it I must say: it sucks even more than firefox-2, which IMHO was already a regression from earlier versions. Actually I think that since they changed the name from phoenix [i]my[\/i] user experience has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/2008\/06\/25\/making_the_switch_1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making the switch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/genone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}