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From SeaMonkey to Firefox to Waterfox with a side of Thunderbird

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After reading some of the usual tech sites I decided to give Waterfox a try. It’s like Firefox, but it’s 64 bit and has telemetry disabled (unlike Firefox which has been turned back on, sneaky bastards). If you already have Firefox installed it will automatically have all your settings and addons in place. So if you feel like giving it a looking over I highly recommend it. I haven’t had any problems with it so far.

I also decided to look into using Thunderbird for my email, which is really familiar to SeaMonkey’s in browser email client. In fact it imported my emails from SeaMonkey which I thought was awesome. It also comes with a calendar addon which I might be able to make use of. Now I just need to move my old emails over to my new email address since my old one was taken down by Charter Residential, because they’re a bunch of fucking morons…

Time for a new browser

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Seamonkey has been pissing me off lately with a couple bugs. When I watch a video for the first time and want to adjust the volume the video freezes. Another bug and this the most annoying one, whenever I download a file it randomly fails and I have to retry. Most of the time I can get it to work on a retry, but with certain downloads it requires me to redownload a file more than twice… and that’s a waste of bandwidth and time that I don’t need. Another bug and this seems exclusive to my CentOS 7 install is the inability to play audio within the browser… So I’ve made the switch to firefox.

It’s gonna take some getting used to, not a whole lot though since it’s fairly similar to seamonkey, and that makes sense since they’re both under the mozilla umbrella. I installed my usual selection of plugins (FlashBlock, NoScript, etc), and installed NewsFox as my RSS reader. At some point I’ll get around to installing Thunderbird.

I can tell I’ll need to get used to FireFox’s aesthetic. But it shouldn’t be too difficult.