It's the Firefox add ons that keep us from switching to Safari, Chrome or Opera. Little things like adding direct download links to the hypemachine, widening the gmail text box and removing adds, allowing google image search to go directly to the image rather than creating frames.....that level of customizability just isn't there yet in other browsers. The first will likely be Opera. The customizability really is incredible. My first install wasted aver an hour of exploration into the browser's abilities.
I've been using Opera 10 for linux for the last couple months, trying the bleeding edge Opera 10 (upped to beta, not noticing much different behavior - tabs look great) and the latest stable 9. I had issues with 9, which is why I grabbed 10 early. The problems seem to be with specific sites, and I wonder if anyone has the same. As far as I can tell Opera cannot, for its life, deal with Slashdot. The browser greys out several times, I can't scroll smoothly, takes years to load. Ironically the Opera crew built in a feature where you just type "/." into the address bar to come here too. 9 and the bleeding edge of 10 also treated gmail poorly, when I move the mouse over an email's message box and click my middle button to paste something (which I can do over the subject and address fields) I get moved to a different page, losing the most recent typing. This was fixed for the beta realease and I am jumping with joy. Opera also likes to disappear when I click on the text box for messages on both gmail and Facebook and it hates loading google maps, sometimes just refuses. Google maps is still definitely an issue, but time will still have to tell about improvements to stability. For Slashdot and Goolge maps I usually give up and open a Firefox window, which is what I had to do to post (this morning it took 5 refreshes to get the title bar to show up, but the browser still greyed out several times). Crashes once or twice a day. Really too bad, it has some rad features (basically takes everything I liked in chrome and rolls it into something similar to Firefox, which is nice since there's no chrome for linux yet). Firefox still seems snappier too.
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It's the Firefox add ons that keep us from switching to Safari, Chrome or Opera. Little things like adding direct download links to the hypemachine, widening the gmail text box and removing adds, allowing google image search to go directly to the image rather than creating frames.....that level of customizability just isn't there yet in other browsers. The first will likely be Opera. The customizability really is incredible. My first install wasted aver an hour of exploration into the browser's abilities.
I've been using Opera 10 for linux for the last couple months, trying the bleeding edge Opera 10 (upped to beta, not noticing much different behavior - tabs look great) and the latest stable 9. I had issues with 9, which is why I grabbed 10 early. The problems seem to be with specific sites, and I wonder if anyone has the same. As far as I can tell Opera cannot, for its life, deal with Slashdot. The browser greys out several times, I can't scroll smoothly, takes years to load. Ironically the Opera crew built in a feature where you just type "/." into the address bar to come here too. 9 and the bleeding edge of 10 also treated gmail poorly, when I move the mouse over an email's message box and click my middle button to paste something (which I can do over the subject and address fields) I get moved to a different page, losing the most recent typing. This was fixed for the beta realease and I am jumping with joy. Opera also likes to disappear when I click on the text box for messages on both gmail and Facebook and it hates loading google maps, sometimes just refuses. Google maps is still definitely an issue, but time will still have to tell about improvements to stability. For Slashdot and Goolge maps I usually give up and open a Firefox window, which is what I had to do to post (this morning it took 5 refreshes to get the title bar to show up, but the browser still greyed out several times). Crashes once or twice a day. Really too bad, it has some rad features (basically takes everything I liked in chrome and rolls it into something similar to Firefox, which is nice since there's no chrome for linux yet). Firefox still seems snappier too.