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Pie-Menus in Mozilla

Posted by Hemos on from the get-the-new-features-on dept.

pronik writes "The Optimoz project on MozDev had two main development branches. While the first one, Mouse Gestures have been a success, we had to wait for the second, also very promising one: PieMenus. Now the wait is over! First implementation of PieMenus for Mozilla - RadialContext - is available for installation and testing!!!"

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  1. Re:wow by leviramsey · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    That being said, yay for Mozilla. A browser that actually runs without a 50 MB footprint and supports actual standards. That and you can get all kinds of silly do-dads on them like pie menus. (Yeah, I just glanced at pie menus briefly so maybe I've missed some really useful part of pie menus.

    This is the obligatory Opera advocacy post.

    Opera supports the same standards Mozilla supports, and definitely fits in a footprint smaller than 50MB, with mouse gesture support.

  2. Pies Menus in Mozilla. by cying · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You say that like it's a good thing. *shakes head*

  3. Re:wow by thesolo · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Opera supports the same standards Mozilla supports, and definitely fits in a footprint smaller than 50MB, with mouse gesture support.

    While it is true that Opera tries to support the W3C DOM, the Opera engine does not do it nearly as well as Mozilla. Opera also has a weird interpretation of Javascript, making some sites which work in Moz choke in Opera.

    Mozilla's support of CSS is unparalleled, I prefer Moz's mouse gestures to Opera, and Mozilla's smart popup-blocking (block only popups which I *didnt* request) is a million times better than blocking all or no popups. Also, since Mozilla doesn't allow switching user-agents in the GUI, it shows up as Mozilla in web logs, not as IE or something else. (I really dislike User-Agent spoofing, especially since it falsely increases IE's percentage of use.)

    That said, if there were no Mozilla, I'd be using Opera; it is a sweet, small, fast browser and a joy to use. And while I don't like MDI in a web browser, it's still better to use than IE or Konqueror.