http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 20 May 2005 19:53:27 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155884 Opera is smaller than firefox, and has more features. If you want speed and low memory/hard drive use... Operas the way to go. 155884@blogcritics.org Fri, 20 May 2005 19:53:27 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155759 seems like all the other posts got modded out. Thank the good Cosmic Muffin. 155759@blogcritics.org Fri, 20 May 2005 15:56:49 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155590 Could you repeat that just one more time Andrew for those who missed it the first six times? LOL! Just kidding dude. It has happened to others before. 155590@blogcritics.org Fri, 20 May 2005 00:34:31 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155581 great, the comments section choked a little, and i come across as an idiot. 155581@blogcritics.org Fri, 20 May 2005 00:10:15 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155580 Well, it's not really tabs, actually. Long story, but look up Multiple Document Interface. That's what Opera uses. 155580@blogcritics.org Fri, 20 May 2005 00:09:08 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155575 Well, it's not really tabs, actually. Long story, but look up Multiple Document Interface. That's what Opera uses. 155575@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 23:50:52 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155513 I fell in love with tabbed browsing. 155513@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 21:03:02 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155449 OK - I'm running Opera 8.0 now - it's not bad - but not very different, as yet. They have continued the age-old tech tradition of messing with words, using 'page' to refer to 'tab'. Will tell you how this browser pans out in a while 155449@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 19:12:08 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155402 Opera is one of the coolest things ever with a feature called mouse gestures. I don't know if the other browsers have it, but I don't think they do. Mouse gestures let you do tons of stuff with a flick of the mouse, for example, you hold the right button and go down and up and let go pretty fast, and you open a new page. If you click right and then left, you go back, if you click left then right, you go forward. It is so conveniant. 155402@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 18:09:59 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155394 Opera rocks! Its my browser of choice followed by IE and lastly Firefox. I've gone through several versions of Firefox and their name changes, but found myself going back to IE. I've found Firefox (including the latest version) to be slow, and the fanboy-ism is downright annoying. IE is way faster,and so is Opera minus the security problems. The F12 toggle is waay cool, and everything just works, and works real well and fast! 155394@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 17:46:57 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155384 firefox owns all other browsers 155384@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 17:12:08 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155367 They've cleaned up the UI (not that big of a deal, I know). It not prevents phishing through Internationalized Domain Names, support for gmail and other sites requiring xmlhttprequest, and user javascript (some geek tool that I don't use too often). Then there's the voice function, now you can browse by using a microphone (interesting...). But, aside from that, it's just a repackaged Opera 7, which is why 7's registration codes work with 8. 155367@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 16:42:20 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155363 So what specifically does Opera 8 change in the current browser space that is a quantum leap forward? I can't see much that catches my eye. 155363@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 16:37:06 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155360 Yeah, I haven't had time to completely go through Netscape 8 yet, but I plan on writing up a review within the next few days. 155360@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 16:26:24 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/19/161027.php#comment-155356 Netscape 8 was also released last week - worth checking out if one would like to play around with different rendering engines, and believe that the medium dictates the message. 155356@blogcritics.org Thu, 19 May 2005 16:23:38 EDT