Again, let me say this: Comedy follows.
Because James didn't have a reply for this one:
http://www.mousegestures.org/
[snipped gibber-jabber designed to re-enforce the Firefox side of the battle]
Gentlemen, when the final battle arrives, remind me to
not send you to the front against the Internet Explorer horde.
Eeesh, now that's going to be a bloodbath. Anyway, time to wrap this lot up and head home.
Linguofreak finaly discovered Opera.
It was only a matter of time and it finaly happened.
I know. Do you want to drag him to rehab, or shall I?
The really cool thing about opera, that it is a hell of a lot smaller than firefox AND has the functionality of firefox with 30+ plugins out of the box.
You know, it's this exact reason (or rather, the opposite reason) that I love Firefox so.
See, the blokes over at Mozilla reconise, quite simply, that one size dosen't fit all. That's why they promote addons as much as they do. They host addons.
And quite well, too. Nifty, well-set-up site.
You see, by using a plugin system, rather than an out-of-the-box system, you're sure that individual users won't be swamped by features that they won't want, much less need. Like, I'm a hotkey person. As said before. I detest mouse gestures. However, should someone want mouse gestures, there's an plugin for it.
Mouse gestures. Makes my skin crawl, they realy do.
Also, the use of plugins rather than hard-coding features does two other, important things: Firstly, it speeds up development of that particular feature, because an individual, non-Mozilla coder can concentrate on the feature, and is more likley to see that feature as their personal accomplishment, and hence work even more on it, resulting in a better implementation than anything hard-coded. For example, "DownThemAll!" is a plugin download manager, many times better than Firefox's own built-in manager. Indeed, it's highly reccomended by Mozilla themselves. And it intergrates perfectly.
Better than it would in Opera. Pft, Opera.
Secondly, you've got multiple, individualy-developed plugins for every feature, like how in Orbiter both ASMO and NASS(A?)P cover the Apollo project. So, if you don't like the looks of one inbrowser iTunes controller plugin, use another. Or, make one yourself, which you can tailor to your own needs.
Long live plugins. Does Opera have plugins? That's what I thought.
But what always got me, is that you have proper options! You have setting you expect in a browser. Like how many connections are made or after what time the page is drawn, which comes with a neat "instantly" setting <- *rubbing this sentence in james face*
Show me this option! I see no such thing, despite my own scouring of Opera! Or is this option, say, added to your arsenal by a... plugin?
Crowd instructions: Gasp. Loudly. Repiditly, if need be.
Seriously, gasp. GASP!
Also using the things like "g orbiter" are fully configurable (and always have been), so I have d for imdb, m for mininova, i for isohunt, b for piratebay. w for wikipedia is a default key as many others. That F8 gives focus to the URL window and marks the content makes this so much better than any firefox addon anyway.
*Cough* Theres-a-box-to-the-side-that-does-that-for-me-because-I-can't... *Breathes in* ...be-bothered-remembering-a-truckload-of-letter-code-things-but-I'm-pretty-sure-there's-a-plugin-somewhere-that-does-that *Cough*
But THE ONE AND ONLY ARGUMENT FOR MOST MALE USERS TO SWITCH TO OPERA is the ability to visit your favorite page which links to numbered pages, like thumbs01.htm, thumbs02.htm or even more convenient 01.jpg, 02.jpg etc. etc. open any of those links and then use the hotkey (ctrl+right) or mouse gesture (hold left+right) to cycle forward in your history. YES ****ING FORWARD. Hell opera is the reason thumbnail pages got invented in the first place!
I rest my case!
Hum. I'll quickly note that the pages or images have to be numbered specificaly, or otherwise, I bet Opera chucks a tantrum? Hum. Funny.
But what I realy want to know is, what sort of galleries has TSP been viewing recently?
Oh, but Opera has an aquarium add-on! (IIRC, they call 'em widgets...)
(Which I don't use since I switched back to Firefox-- I forget why; probably 'cause I'm turning into an anti-proprietary-software nut.)
Oh yes, I remember that. So you can waste time, feeding fish, on a program made for browsing the web, instead of wasting time, browsing the web, on a program that was made for browing the web... I'm sure it wouldn't be to hard to make a plugin for Firefox for that.
Type in address bar opera:config and you got more option.
We've got them too. Over here, we call that about:config, though there are others. Like about:robots, if you want to learn everything to do with that new, shiny, metal friend of yours.
Yes, that one that I programmed to install Firefox on your computer.
