Have you tried the new Opera 9 Beta Roo? Things just got a lot faster in Opera, like lightning...!
I know am biased about Opera! The web developer toolbar is very good, as is Venkman for JavaScript debugging, still I find myself swearing at Mozilla because mouse gestures don't work, and the implementation of tabs is really muted compared to Opera. Now that's how tabs should be!
Plus, with widgets I can now read Garfield comics while no-one's looking at work.
Looks cooler ???? You obviously haven't tested out the skins available for Opera
I don't know what Jeeves was talking about with the tabs but I find FF's way of handling windows to be really baffling. Like if you get a pop-up or a new window it opens in a new window automatically, not in a tab. I think I had to get a plugin to make it open everything in a new tab. And even then pop-up windows behaved weirdly. It's not possible to have windows at less than full screen in FF. In Opera I can restore any window within the application and resize it how I'd like. New windows and pop-ups always open in a new tab.
I thought it was really weird that it would behave that way by default. What's the point of having tabs if you have to tell it explicitly to actually use them? I know I had to download a plugin to get tabs to behave the way I wanted to but I forget what it was that it couldn't do...
Yeah bit bemusing it's not turned on by default - maybe they wanted people to feel at home with the browser after moving up from IE, but still weird. They should maybe have a pop up on your first time running FF to ask a few Q's about how you want it to behave, not having to look through options.
Megan wrote: I know I had to download a plugin to get tabs to behave the way I wanted to but I forget what it was that it couldn't do...
You couldn't re-arrange tabs, also there was no easy way to just get a tab. Thinking some more Firefox never opens with a tab ready, it acts like IE at first.
Agreed Daveyboy, compatibility would be the reason, although totally hiding features seems like a very silly thing to do. Especially since as soon as IE releases their next version everyone will be all excited about tabs like no other browser had them before.
I bet there'll be some tech-wannabies at work who try to broach that subject with me. Grrrr!
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kazimmerman posted this at 02:11 — 1st June 2006.
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That is interesting, but I would have no patience to do that.
Megan posted this at 12:33 — 1st June 2006.
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Whoo-hoo! Go Opera!!!
Ashish posted this at 06:30 — 2nd June 2006.
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wow.. so opera really is the fastest borwser around.. however i think i am pretty happy with IE 7 at home and FF at work
JeevesBond posted this at 16:15 — 2nd June 2006.
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Am happy to see Opera is first, it's also got far more features than all the other browsers too.
Please, no swearing.
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Roo posted this at 16:53 — 2nd June 2006.
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I had always thought Opera was the fastest until I downloaded the new Netscape 8. It is absolulty the fastest!
You can choose to have it display like Firefox or IE.
But alas..I cannot live without my Web Developer toolbar in Firefox.
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JeevesBond posted this at 17:22 — 2nd June 2006.
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Have you tried the new Opera 9 Beta Roo? Things just got a lot faster in Opera, like lightning...!
I know am biased about Opera! The web developer toolbar is very good, as is Venkman for JavaScript debugging, still I find myself swearing at Mozilla because mouse gestures don't work, and the implementation of tabs is really muted compared to Opera. Now that's how tabs should be!
Plus, with widgets I can now read Garfield comics while no-one's looking at work.
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DaveyBoy posted this at 17:31 — 2nd June 2006.
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A tab is a tab isn't it? Am i missing something?
StarofWars.com posted this at 00:30 — 3rd June 2006.
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From what I've seen Opera is the fastest, but it doesn't make much a difference for me, I've got a cable modem
Plus, Firefox looks cooler
Megan posted this at 12:50 — 5th June 2006.
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Looks cooler ???? You obviously haven't tested out the skins available for Opera
I don't know what Jeeves was talking about with the tabs but I find FF's way of handling windows to be really baffling. Like if you get a pop-up or a new window it opens in a new window automatically, not in a tab. I think I had to get a plugin to make it open everything in a new tab. And even then pop-up windows behaved weirdly. It's not possible to have windows at less than full screen in FF. In Opera I can restore any window within the application and resize it how I'd like. New windows and pop-ups always open in a new tab.
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DaveyBoy posted this at 14:15 — 5th June 2006.
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Nah, on Firefox there's a setting in Tools that you can check and it will open all new windows in a tab.
Megan posted this at 14:22 — 5th June 2006.
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I thought it was really weird that it would behave that way by default. What's the point of having tabs if you have to tell it explicitly to actually use them? I know I had to download a plugin to get tabs to behave the way I wanted to but I forget what it was that it couldn't do...
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DaveyBoy posted this at 14:31 — 5th June 2006.
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Yeah bit bemusing it's not turned on by default - maybe they wanted people to feel at home with the browser after moving up from IE, but still weird. They should maybe have a pop up on your first time running FF to ask a few Q's about how you want it to behave, not having to look through options.
JeevesBond posted this at 18:54 — 5th June 2006.
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You couldn't re-arrange tabs, also there was no easy way to just get a tab. Thinking some more Firefox never opens with a tab ready, it acts like IE at first.
Agreed Daveyboy, compatibility would be the reason, although totally hiding features seems like a very silly thing to do. Especially since as soon as IE releases their next version everyone will be all excited about tabs like no other browser had them before.
I bet there'll be some tech-wannabies at work who try to broach that subject with me. Grrrr!
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