| Apart from Mozilla FF or TB, I don't use any other open source products
| and I have no plans to change my habits.
|
| My website runs on Linux but it is maintained by my host and I have
| involvement with it.
|

My website also runs on Linux. I use Filezilla for
FTP. Do you use commercial software?

While I agree that a lot of OSS programs are projects
that are never finished (Linux, GIMP) or solid projects
that will always lack adequate GUI polish (7-Zip), I've
only bought two commercial products in the past
10 years or so: 1) BootIt for disk management and
disk imaging. 2) Corel Paint Shop Pro. Everything
else I use is either OSS or free. And all are the best
products I know of for the purpose. I'm willing to pay
for something that's worth it to me. I just don't see
such products. (I wouldn't touch anything from Adobe
or Symantec. And I don't like to use software that's
designed to call home without asking.)
The free products I use are *at least* adequate:

OSS:

Acrylic DNS
7-Zip
Filezilla (FTP)
Libre Office
SumatraPDF (which I was able to recompile, fairly easily,
to ignore PDF file restrictions)
VLC Media Player
Audacity (audio editor)

Free but not OSS:

IrfanView
HxD hex editor
CPUID
DVDFlick
Imgburn (CD/DVD writer)
Agent Ransack (Windows Find replacement)
Sysinternals utilities
Online Armor 4.0.0.15 for XP (last version before it was sold)
Private Firewall for Win7
(I don't use AV, but install Avast for people who's
PCs I manage.)

Someone who uses MS Office for work is likely to
say that Libre Office doesn't compare. I don't doubt
that's true. But Libre Office is free and opens all
versions of MS Office files. As a casual user who
only needs to occasionally print business cards,
receipts, contracts, etc. it's more than adequate.
And it allows me to open anything from any MS Office
user. If I wanted to do that with MS Office I'd have
to keep buying each [wildly overpriced] version. (It's
amazing how many MS Office users don't know how
to write even a simple note without firing up MS
Word, and then assume that everyone else can
easily open their docx file.)

The only thing I find I'm unable to really be satisfied
with is browsers. IE is not even worth critiquing. Chrome
is spyware from the biggest spyware company going.
Opera is out of the running. I've never tried Safari, but
I wouldn't have high hopes for anything from Apple.
They're not known for catering to end-user choice.

Firefox keeps changing. They get most of their money
from Google, and it shows. Gradually the flexibility and
privacy options have been disappearing. Every time I
update it takes more work to get the functionality back.
I'm finding that I'm ending up with "extension creep":
adding more and more extensions to get the functions
that used to be built in. A browser that requires numerous,
arcane prefs edits and a handful of add-ons in order to
work properly is a bad piece of software.

I've been using Pale Moon in general, but that's really just
a leaner version of Firefox, not a better one.

I keep thinking it's time for a new, honest browser to
appear, but nothing does. I suppose all the idealistic,
young, genius programmers are too busy diddling their
Facebook on their cellphones to think about Internet
browsing.