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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 19:04:16 +0100, Moen
<h-news@operamail.dot.com.invalid> wrote:
>And Opera had it even sooner. Seriously, all these things were
>introduced in Opera ages before Mozilla even considered them
Surrrre... the fact that Opera was buggy and unstable with all these
pioneer features definitely helped things considerably...
>Also, mouse gestures: Hold down the right mouse button, and move up
>then down, to reload a page. Or down and right to close a page. And so
>on. Pioneered by Opera, ripped by everyone else
It might seem
>strange at first, but the game Black&White had them, and they work
>really well. Makes surfing a lot faster.
Meh... I hate mouse gestures.
>Opera is a smaller download than Firefox, and still has more features
>built in like:
Oooh, smaller download... that's important with a 14 Mbit internet
line...
>- Start where you left off. Close Opera with a few pages open, and
>you'll be able to reopen Opera with them again the next time.
>- Mouse gestures (must try!)
>- Popup blocking
>- Proper MDI/tabbed browsing
>- Password manager to save passwords on pages
>- Disable images on the fly to save bandwidth, or set Opera just to
>show cached ones, with one single key press
>- Fast forward/rewind (FF automatically goes to the next page - no
>need to look for the "next" link on the actual page)
>- Notes to write notes about pages or whatever
>- Extensive keyboard shortcuts
>- Ctrl+J to open a list of links on a page, and then you can do
>anything... Open them all, save them, etc. Nice for image galleries
>- There's so much more...
....that I would never ever use. Firefox just works better. I don't
know how else to explain it. When I tried Opera, granted it was a
while ago, I had random browser lock-ups, certain pages would not
display correctly or at all, etc. Mozilla has far fewer of those
problems, and it has a lot more extensions and skins, so I think I'll
be sticking with that.
>Yeah, it has ads, but if you choose Google ads, it's just a narrow
>strip at the top of the program.
It takes up viewing space...
>The next version, 7.60, which can be downloaded as an alpha/preview
>also has voice controlled browsing.
Why the hell would anyone want that? There's no voice recognition
software on earth that can work better/faster than clicking...
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