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Firebird

I just installed Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1. Wow, this thing is fast. It’s also smaller and better. I’m dumping the old Mozilla Navigator browser immediately.

The default download offered for Linux is missing xft support that enables anti-aliased fonts under RedHat. I can’t stand reading text that isn’t anti-aliased. Such text rendering should be banned. I found a version with xft and svg, and now I’m golden.

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One Response to “Firebird”

  1. Rob Says:
    October 7th, 2003 at 12:55 pm

    Firebird is the shizzy! I’ve been using it for a little while now and it’s definitely become my browser of choice. It’s still frustrating to run into issues with sites that are coded for IE, but when you figure that IE has 99.82% of the browser marketshare, it makes sense.

    Heck, even Joel Spolsky likes Firebird!

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