And the browser wars continue....
They sure do, after being amazingly happy with Flashpoint Slimbrowser. Mozilla Firebird + Thunderbird come out of nowhere to steal my heart. Firebird is Mozilla's new standalone minimalistic browser. The thing is pretty darn customizable always a must, no ads, easy to use, has pop-up blocker, and tabbed browsing. It's uber fast and as slick as just using Internet Explorer, but you know...it renders webpages perfectly, which is prolly the main reason why I switched. So yeah Firebird is awesome, its small, fully functional, and free of course as are all Mozilla products :-D.

You see with any IE based browser when I look at any of my test filled pages I see this:

You can see it has a wholly redundant horizontal scroll bar, which drives me crazy because I made my side to be very simple and clear so the only scrolling should be up or down. The way I wrote the page, it should ALWAYS format the text so it fits perfectly in the window. But obviously it doesn't, plus it makes the text to big IMO. But this is an example of it rendering the pages imperfectly.

But when I use a Mozilla or Netscape based browser I see this:

And you can see no horizontal scrollbar, a nice small yet ledgible text size, it just does it more better. :-P So now all pages will look as perfect as they should making me feel better plus as a webdesigner, having a browser that does this is invaluable.

Also I said Mozilla Thunderbird, which is the new Mozilla based standalone Mail-client. I've needed a standalone Mail for a while since I refuse to use Outlook or Outlook express because their awful and all e-mail viruses are made for that, I won't use Netscape Mail because I refuse Netscape, But I liked Mozilla mail because it was just like Netscape Mail only...no Netscape, but since I don't use Mozilla anymore, it became a hindrance, just because it kept trying to use Mozilla Browser...and I didn't use it anymore. But since this is standalone, I can use it by itself and with any browser I want. So for now all is well in Yanni's web browsing world.

I highly encourage you all to give both Firebird and Thunderbird a try, I don't believe you'll be disappointed. I mean...I've used just about every major browser, and a few minor ones to, and this is my fav...till the next one comes out anyway :-)