Applications I am using (2015-09-02)

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This is something I do every so often, where I list the various applications I use. It is mostly for my own satisfaction, though I do enjoy talking about the software itself sometimes.

Web Browser: Palemoon ( https://www.palemoon.org/ )

I do not use Firefox anymore, as the interface has become very convoluted and UX-poor. I do not use Chrome due to my distrust of Google, and Opera is okay but not something I enjoy using. I loved the Firefox UI from before their change, and that is what Palemoon is. It has perfect UI for me, and it is still Gecko/Goanna (due to legal reasons) and XUL-based. I plan on continuing to use this for as long as I can.

(Aside: With Mozilla moving away from XUL, I do worry that the foundation is being hijacked by people who truly do not know what they are doing. It seems that the community-driven applications, such as SeaMonkey and Thunderbird, put far more love into their products than Mozilla proper does.)

Email Client: Thunderbird ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ )

XMPP/IM Client: Gajim ( https://gajim.org/ )

IRC Client: Chatzilla XULRunner ( http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/ )

Media Player: Zune for Desktop ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27163 )

Office Application: Apache OpenOffice ( https://www.openoffice.org/ )

I much prefer Microsoft Office, but with Office 2016 being released soon for Office 365, I am not certain Windows 7 will be supported. As such, I am giving Apache OpenOffice a try now. LibreOffice has major kerning issues with its fonts, and while OpenOffice also has issues, they can be corrected much more easily than with LibreOffice.

Admittedly, I would rather find a copy of Office 2007 to use, as that version as a beautiful user interface and perfect kerning for fonts.

(Aside: Expect a little something about this soon.)

HTML Editor: Microsoft Expression Web ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36179 )

That is all for now.