Daddy or Chips? Opera or Firefox?
As some of you will know I dumped IE sometime last year, or maybe the year before... I don't really know when. But I did and I chose Opera. Loads of lovly features, like tabbed windows and mouse gestures and stuff. Brilliant application. Even managed to get the ClaudeStreet house to change to it around the same time I did - even Russ, who still uses it.
There are some pages it just doens't like (sometime it'll just crash when using a form or whatever), and some pages that just don't like it (NatWest) being one. Recently I've been looking at the latest previews of the next release to see if things have improved - suppose they have - well you can use GMail now and it's got some other nice features. OK, it's a preview, but my blog crashes it now :-( I have a feeling it might not be liking the SMS ticker thing, but other sites have still nadgered it.
I've been running a copy of Firefox for a while now - ever since someone pointed out that my blog didn't look right in it. I didn't like the early previews at all to be honest - but it's getting to a stage where I quite like it (especially after installing the mouse gestures plugin - a thing any Opera user can't live without after using Opera for only a day!)
Firefox is now my secondary browser - when a site doesn't like Opera I'll try it in Firefox - and it usually works - even NatWest works now. The problem I face is, should Firefox become my number one browser? There are still things I don't like about it - it doens't put the calendar in my sidebar in the centre for a start, and I'm sure it should do! I'd love to swap to Firefox - if I could guarantee that it does everything Opera can do that I like Opera doing. The only way to find that out is to use it I suppose...
OK... that's that sorted then... I was going to do a poll, but I've decided whilst writing this that I'm going to make Firefox the default browser for a while... and see if it annoys me, or not! I'll let you know how I get on!
Oooh... look the calendar is in the right place now :-) Apparantly a text-align:center in a div that's specified as align="center" means put something to the left... clearly.
Posted by: Ed on November 21, 2004 2:27 PMSod it.
I'm sticking with Opera until Firefox grows a proper MDI (multiple document interface). It's tabbed pages feature is amateur compared with Opera's.
There are loads of (well a few anyway!) tabbed browsing extensions for Firefox. Also the all-in-one mouse gestures extension (not the optimoz one) is way better than Opera's. Having said that, the final release of Firefox seems slightly worse than the last pre-release beta.
For the pre-release stages there were loads of extensions/plug-ins, but not all of these seem to work with the latest release.
OK then... find me one that can let me view more than one page in the same Firefox window... and will allow me to tile them and what-have-you.
I'd also like it to keep Firefox open if I've closed all the pages.
So yeah, I want a MDI plugin for Firefox.
Posted by: Ed on November 21, 2004 5:11 PMYeah, I wanted to use Firefox; i downloaded it and the damn thing wouldn't open any pages. Spent about three hours messing wih it. Finally downloaded the latest Netsape 7.2 browser freebee. Very nice, even if nobody uses the thing.
Something called "Riohfind" hijacked my my IE Browser's homepage, so i was like, "let's just start over and import every "favorite" to a new browser."
Firefox, still just a mediocre Clint Eastwood movie for me.
Posted by: chris franklin on November 21, 2004 5:47 PMI've used Firefox for a while, and I think it's pretty good.
Posted by: TraB on November 22, 2004 1:21 PMHow long did you use Opera for?
There is a great article on Opera Vs. Firefox on Opera Watch.
http://operawatch.blogspot.com/2004/11/opera-vs-mozilla-firefox.html
Posted by: O on December 1, 2004 5:24 PM