Are skins bad for you? They are distracting, and I wouldn’t want them in my editor, but they look good on “Entertainment”-ware like WinAmp, nevertheless. But your browser? Mozilla, I have said below, rocks — but only in terms of its HTML/XML rendering. In terms of looks, it is ugly. You can spice it up with skins — in fact, with XUL support, you can drastically alter its appearance — but this begs the question: shouldn’t the default have been a little more aesthetic and fuctional? The worst bit is that Netscape 6 might just end up perpetuating the myth that free software is ‘clunky’, not ‘polished’ and ‘professional’. Before you jump to conclusions, try out — or take a look at — KDE. There, even the default looks great!