Firefox 3
I’ve been using Firefox 3 Beta 2 for a while now, and so far it seems pretty stable. What’s really nice, though, is that it actually integrates well with the Linux desktop since it makes use of the GTK theme you have set up. All of the plugins I use were compatible, so there was no issue in that regards. In general, it’s a lot faster and a bit more polished, but there is one nagging issue. For sites where images have been resized using HTML attributes, it seems these images do not display correctly a lot of the time. After doing a bit of research I’ve found that this is potentially an Xorg issue. It’s not a deal-breaker for me, really, but it is rather annoying to deal with.

Gnome vs. KDE: Gnome for now
Ever since installing Arch, I’ve been using Gnome as my desktop environment. Those of you who know me know that usually I’m running KDE or something else, but ever since KDE4 came out, I’m not so sure on KDE. I’m not sure what it is, but there’s something about it that isn’t appealing to me as of yet. Sure, I could use the 3.5.x series of KDE, but with efforts being focused on the 4.x series, all 3 will see is bugfixes. A majority of the applications I use are GTK apps to begin with, and lately some of the things with Gnome have been interesting me. Don’t get me wrong, I still prefer how KDE’s settings are more out in the open, but for now I’m going to give Gnome a shot and see how it treats me.