I mentioned in the Firefox topic (http://www.x86labs.org:81/forum/index.php/topic,5070.0.html) posted earlier this week that I was going to give Opera a try. Last night, I downloaded it, installed it and I'm now using it.
I must say, it's a very nice browser. For those of you who have never used it, here's a screenshot: http://www.sidoh.org/~sidoh/opera.jpg
I really like the RSS integration. I never tried to do anyting like it with Firefox, but I'm sure its possible. I was keeping up with the forums the whole day with the RSS feed! It's a really nice way to do it. :)
There are a lot of neat features you can enable that I thought were pretty neat/innovative. The "mouse jestures" lets you perform certain actions by moving your mouse a certain direction while the right mouse button is held down.
I really miss the google toolbar, but most of the features it offers are available in Opera. The spellchecker, I thought, was much better with Google Toolbar, but Opera's works just as well; it just takes a bit more effort.
Anyway, if you haven't already, you should give it a try!
LOL, I thought this was "I'm liking Oprah." OOPS.
Quote from: Sidoh on March 10, 2006, 02:21:57 AM
I really like the RSS integration. I never tried to do anyting like it with Firefox, but I'm sure its possible. I was keeping up with the forums the whole day with the RSS feed! It's a really nice way to do it. :)
Firefox definitely does that :P
Quote from: Sidoh on March 10, 2006, 02:21:57 AM
There are a lot of neat features you can enable that I thought were pretty neat/innovative. The "mouse jestures" lets you perform certain actions by moving your mouse a certain direction while the right mouse button is held down.
I actually like the Firefox plugin[/urll] for gestures better than Opera's.
(https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=39&application=firefox)
Quote from: Sidoh on March 10, 2006, 02:21:57 AM
I really miss the google toolbar, but most of the features it offers are available in Opera. The spellchecker, I thought, was much better with Google Toolbar, but Opera's works just as well; it just takes a bit more effort.
Cool.
I don't mind Opera, and I use it occasionally. I like Firefox better, still. Plus, I have more respect for Firefox, being opensource :)
After having had used Firefox for a few months, I can definitely say I like Opera more at the moment.
While I do have great amounts of respect for open source project, I won't use a product over another simply because it's open source. If the alternative is free, it doesn't even come into consideration.