I think one of the really bright spots for Linux in 2009 has been the increase in quality browsers for the platform, and at the turn of the year the pace of change and development doesn't appear to have slowed one bit.
We have just had the Beta version of Google Chrome release to the world, and packages are already available for many distributions.
Now Mozilla have not been standing still, and their next release 3.6 has just had a new beta released, and with it the ability to easily integrate the Mozilla personas, basically themes for your browser. Mozilla Personas
I also stumbled across a post on the latest and greatest new features that are going into version 3.7, and one of those, has been in Chromium from the start, and that is tab process separation, which means if one tab freezes the browser won't.
You can only do this with version 3.7, and this how you do it:
type about:config
and then type
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled
and make sure it is set to true.
It works, and I'm playing with it now, so time will tell how stable it is. The smart move from the Mozilla guys, was to use a lot of the code from the Chromium project, so not re-inventing the wheel, wize move.
I'm looking forward to the renewed competition in the new year, as the main beneficiaries are the linux browser community.
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