Gah.
I've spent the thick end of 12 months evangelising the Mozilla project and their product, the Mozilla web browser, to all and sundry, whoever would listen (or not - I didn't care) and now, Karsten's ruined it all for me.
The reason?
[link|http://galeon.sourceforge.net|Galeon]
Not available for ugly, fiddly desktops like KDE or Windows (Ooh, was that advocacy gone wrong? I think it probably was :-) ), this GNOME browser uses the high-speed, standards compliant Gecko rendering engine which is probably the most visible success of Mozilla.
It rocks. It rolls. It laughs in the face of Netscape and crushes Konqueror beneath its actually-renders-the-web-properly heel. As a Web Browser it's the very match of Mozilla, with nifty features like a tabbed interface (if you like), a "portal page" comprising your bookmarks and sites you've visited recently, a handy dandy toolbar with boxes for Google, Dictionary.com, RPMFind, Debian, and others.
The toolbar is of course totally customisable, with a wide variety of buttons to do the usual webby tasks.
There's also a useful collection of "bookmarklets" - javascript bookmarks that do things like scroll the page automatically at various speeds, check the current page's freshness, and other clever things.
Font handling is sane, with a worthy "minimum font size" setting. You can zoom the page on ALT-wheel. You can turn your web proxy on and off from a menu setting. The toolbar is uncluttered and clear. You can choose your own throbber.
Did I mention that it's extremely fast, and uses not a great deal of memory? That its GUI actually looks like a human factors person has been within six feet of it?
Neither of which can be said of Konqueror, which is a poster child for what happens when programmers design user interfaces, and is part and parcel of the memory hungry slothlike monster that is KDE.
What? You're still reading this?
Bugger off and install it. Install Linux and GNOME 1.4, if you have to. You'll need Mozilla 0.9.2 (at least) for the current release, but I successfully installed Galeon 0.11.5 over Mozilla 0.9.3.1, so it's not too demanding. Gecko's been stable-ish for a while. The whole shooting match is running on Ximian GNOME on Red Hat Linux 7.0.90 (Fisher).
And yes. I think KDE sucks.
