I stumbled upon a minor player tonight by the name of Wyzo. Beyond a product with a cute and clean website, Wyzo is a web browser built off of Firefox that seems to focus on BitTorrent and social sites like YouTube, Flickr and Digg.

I downloaded Wyzo to get a quick feel for it, and it became very clear that it is indeed a Firefox clone with a few added touches here and there. As someone with some skinning experience, I have to say that I am impressed with the skin they came up with. I’ve definitely seen worse. You can get a feel for what the browser looks like on first launch in the following screenshot (click it to see the full-sized version):

Screenshot of Wyzo

The bottom-line is that Wyzo doesn’t seem worth a download just yet when you can just as easily run Firefox and get the same feature set. My guess is that adding something like the AllPeers extension and the Orange-look theme would give you a similarly looking and functioning browsing experience while using the more popular of the two browsers.

If you’re interested in finding out more about Wyzo, though, check out their website or download it and play around.

I’ll let you know if I read any more about Wyzo once it matures beyond alpha quality and toward its first stable release.

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