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| Thread ID: 33657 | 2003-05-22 02:06:00 | IE vs Opera vs Mozilla | enigma99n (2339) | Press F1 |
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| 146447 | 2003-05-24 03:59:00 | Opera is my favourite browser. It is fast, I like the tabs, the mouse gestures, the keyboard navigation and also the customisable look of it. The other alternative browsers also offer tabs and customisable looks but the speed and mouse gestures in Opera are what keeps me with it. Like Jen said, it is hard to stop trying to use them in the other browsers. Internet Explorer is now only used for Chat F1 and for sites that are Opera incompatible. Have got Mozilla Firebird which is quite nice also, but Opera is the best for me. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 146448 | 2003-05-24 04:19:00 | As a sometime website developer (ummm... no I will not point you to my sites), as IE is the most common browser, I develop for IE as 97% of people use it. The incompatibities are a pain in the bum. I like Opera myself but found that my secure server doesn't like it (bummer). | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 146449 | 2003-05-24 05:05:00 | I've got IE6,Opera and Mozilla 1.3 on this pc. My wife is now using Opera to zap around in! Don't like the bookmarks side of that,but managed to get our favourites list through to Opera,whereas they just appeared in Mozilla.Using Mozilla a lot more now as well,as it seems to get to some places,eg,LOTR site downloads, that Opera wont open.So waiting for a later version of Mozilla on the mag cd. Is the Firebird different? | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 146450 | 2003-05-24 05:06:00 | I really enjoy opera for day to day use. I downloaded Mozilla too see why everyone liked that. Not as fast as opera but looks alright. Whats the difference between Mozilla and this Firebird thing??? Its kinda hard to navigate the mozilla site to find out :p IE gets used for windows updates, chatf1 and Hushmail. I'm kinda annoyed that opera still doesn't support Hushmail properly or the other way around :\ Anyone know any cool skins for opera?? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 146451 | 2003-05-24 05:07:00 | PS. Love the way I can get rid of the bars at the top of the page with Mozilla. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 146452 | 2003-05-24 05:13:00 | > As a sometime website developer (ummm... no I will > not point you to my sites), as IE is the most common > browser, I develop for IE as 97% of people use it. > The incompatibities are a pain in the bum. As another website developer I test all my sites in IE, Opera, Mozilla (& now Firebird) and Netscape. :) |
stu140103 (137) | ||
| 146453 | 2003-05-24 07:22:00 | > Anyone know any cool skins for opera?? Umm .... in Opera just go View > Skin > Get Skins. Heaps to choose from and they autoinstall for you. You can then easily switch between them by selecting from View > Skin and clicking on your choice. Sometimes you need to restart Opera to view the new skin. If you have the latest version of Opera, not all the skinning appearance will work (my rewind icon still shows as default and not the skinned version). Some of the ones I have are: SilverXP 2003 (currently used), BlueXP 2003, Breeze II, Cocoa and Tob Theatre Paper. Happy downloading! Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 146454 | 2003-05-24 07:36:00 | You can get mouse-gestures for Mozilla you realise ;) I don't like the things though. I'm a keyboard person. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 146455 | 2003-05-24 12:15:00 | I use Netscape and am not keen on IE as it has no tabbed browsing and I find with Tabbed browsing I just about never have to bother with the back button. eg with PressF1 after bring up the start page I just go through middle clicking all Posts I want to view and then start reading and closing tabs. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 146456 | 2003-05-24 21:46:00 | Opera originally for leanness and non-MS respect for privacy. As I now have five browsers on my machine, the "leanness" argument is no longer relevant :-) and the privacy argument applies to most non-MS browsers - I think. IE for standardisation (some sites still respond properly to no other browser: and OT, I have just found a site which demands the latest version of Windows Media Player to handle its streaming video - it does provide a Java-viewer alternative, but this does not allow full-screen display). IE also for speed of startup. Phoenix for tabbed browsing and pop-up suppression (I will learn in time to recognise this capability is automatic and stop pressing Ctrl and spawning an unwanted new tab :-) ) (Is Mozilla Firebird different from Phoenix? They sound as though they may be closely related). And Mozilla itself for smart file-download management. Now I'll (hopefully) be told about all the switches in all the other browsers that let me do what I have supposed to be a unique feature of a particular browser :-) Argus |
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