Posts Tagged ‘Opera
Firefox: Like An Old Shoe
I’ve had a long and painful war with which browser to use on my Windows machine at work. Firefox has let me down many times before, and the Mozilla Firefox developers have disappointed me. So I switched to Opera, and it’s made me very happy. I have really learned to love Speed Dial, [...]
ACID3, Safari 3, Opera 10, Take 2
And so the real race begins. Yesterday, Opera software announced via blog post that their post Opera 9.5 builds are passing the ACID3 test. Cool!
But alas, the Webkit team – who really have a great track record of being successful with bleeding edge, one upped them by not only passing the test, [...]
The Facebook Logo Has Gone Into Hiding
It was reported by several sources this week that after an embarassing affair with a prostitute, the Facebook logo has gone into hiding. Actually, what has been happening for me is that the Facebook logo has been randomly disappearing for me in my browser. In fact, most days, lately, in Opera 9.26, this [...]
No Regrets
I moved to Opera browser on Windows sometime ago, and I have no regrets. Apparently, most Opera users agree.
Nothing feels as perfect as Camino on my Mac, but it’s seriously lacking in the developer department. No javascript console, no web developer tools, no draggable tabs. Hopefully by 2.0 this will [...]
That’s More Like It!
This is much more like it. I’m three days into my experiment. After 9.5 hours running today, this is what Opera 9.1 looks like. I am currently downloading three SHN files all greater than 30MB.
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Take Three: Enter Opera
Using Flock was kind of a long shot. Flock is based on Gecko, like Firefox, which has given me a lot of problems. Flock served me well at first, but then starting gobbling up RAM. So, I’m pretty sure I’ve narrowed it down, for me, to XUL and extensions.
I’m not [...]
