> There used to be a time when radio DJs would read the adverts over the air.
The only stations I listen to either have zero commercials (save for PSAs) or do the above. There are tons of them. And they tend to have a wider selection of music and entertainment than is offered on the regular stations.
> Since I've never been able to get anything other than XFCE to run in 128MB, I'm sure as hell neither KDE or GNOME are > going to like 128, never mind 64, unlike Windows 98/SE/ME which functioned just fine for the most part. Go ahead and prove > me wrong. And running a custom haxx0rz version of FVWM doesn't count.
FWIW, my laptop is a Pentium 266 with 96MB RAM. It runs KDE without needing to use swap. It originally had 48MB RAM, and this ran KDE, but with lots of swapping.
> Nothing - provided you are using the latest version. It's fast, it looks good, it supports CSS (even passing > ACID2), it has tabs, it accepts Mozilla-style extensions. In fact, it does everything Opera does -- but, > unlike Opera, you get the source code.
There is a ton of stuff that Opera does that Konq doesn't. Here's what keeps me coming back to Opera: * opening previously closed tabs -- Konq only has a tool for opening crashed pages, and that doesn't always work * saving individual sessions * putting tabs on the side (I open a lot of pages per session, so tabs on top or bottom won't fit comfortably) * Fast Forward (auto-recognizing "Next page" links in articles and following them when you click a button or hit a hotkey, also works if you're browsing through a bunch of images linked from a single page * SiteBar compatibility (this isn't a show stopper -- SiteBar is a roll-your-own version of del.icio.us -- and it's even a little problematic in Opera, but not as difficult) * widgets (having instantaneous access to tiny apps, like a simple calculator, is much more convenient than waiting X seconds for something like kcalc to load) * shift-G and G hotkeys to blast away styles and images from a current tab until I need them back (different from using bookmarklets, which only blast until you load another page) * per-page fine-grained control over flash, ad banners, javascript functionality, animation, et al) * Links panel, listing all ilnks from current page * Shift + arrow navigation of links
There's like a billion more. I still like Konqueror and use it from time to time. As long as a browser can do mouse gestures, tabs, session saving and find-as-you-type (features that shared by Opera, Konqueror and properly extended Mozillas) and is reasonably cross platform, I'm comfortable with using it.
I tried kde-cygwin. It works, but it's hard to compile new packages, so you're stuck with what the project gives you. The version of cygwin also makes a difference -- I had to downgrade the cygwin dll in order to get KDE 3.4 to work.
It's very impressive, but slow. I ended up running kde apps from a fixed-size X server window running the ion window manager.
The message I got when I visited there (and this is a coincidence, since I don't use my MySpace account except when a friend on another site specifically needs me to, in this case to check out an unrelated technical problem): "hey everyone! there's been a power outage in our data center. we're in the process of fixing it right now, so sit tight. hopefully we'll be back online within the hour. its 6:40pm PST now. wanna place a bet? -Tom"
When I reloaded half an hour later, "Tom" had removed the "its 6:40pm PST now. wanna place a bet?" part. I guess they knew they were having problems that'd take a while.
> the navigation bar is underneath the tabs in Opera where it is at the top of the browser in Firefox
You can get around this pretty easily. Shift-F12, go to the Toolbars section. The "Main bar" and the "Personal bar" are both normally above the Tab bar. So click the checkbox for the Personal bar so that it appears. Then, while you still have the "Appearance" (what came up when you hit Shirt-F12) window open, drag all the buttons and fields from the navigation bar to the personal bar. Then uncheck Navigation bar from the Appearance window so it goes away. Bam, it's set up like Firefox.
> bookmarks are not nearly as easy to setup as Firefox where you can drag-and-drop the links onto the bookmark bar
I use the side panel for dragging around bookmarks (and this works great!), so I probably can't help you much there. *However*, you can still drag links onto almost any bar of the gui, including the navigation bar. You can also drag bookmark folders from the side panel onto any bar. It's fairly similar, except that you can't rearrange stuff without either using the side panel or opening up the full page bookmark manager.
> Recovering closed pages. If the page closed is not the last page of a session, > it will not be saved and is not recoverable. Can we have a system parallel to > the "tab savers" for pages?
There's a little Trash icon with a down arrow next to it. Right now, it holds the last sixteen tabs I've closed. It's in the "Windows" panel and it also makes an appearance at the bottom or right of the tab bar, depending on whether you made that bar horizontal or vertical. Would this help? From the wording of your question, you might be talking about something different.
Oh, btw, it's also in the "Window" menu, submenu "Closed".
If it helps, Ctrl+B does make sense. The original X/C/V for Cut/Copy/Paste were chosen because they were right next to each other. So now Paste-and-go is just the next key on that row from the one that does Paste.:)
I, too, was annoyed, bye the way. I remapped Ctrl-N to open a new tab. Every app should have editable hotkeys!
> Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts > Middle click options > Select "Open in background tab". > Yes, they could make this a bit easier to find.
Hold shift and middle click on a link. It should immediately go to the "Middle click options" dialog. It does here, anyway.:)
The *vendor* used to be able to add whatever browser they wanted to the computer that *they* were selling. This became impossible at one point, when Microsoft started making threats at vendors who were using Netscape with their systems. Nowadays, it's just kind of pointless, since people get confused if the internet isn't a blue 'e' (don't even confuse them with a term like "web browser", which they might not understand).
The OS maker doesn't have to include the web browser with the OS. The vendor should be able to decide what packages are installed with their computer (as they do with virus scanners and office apps).
Ha, my girlfriend's sister has a startup discount clothing business, and she keeps complaining that her supplier usually sends her 30" pants that few people buy.
For what it's worth, my headless 500MHz K6-2 FreeBSD home server runs KDE 3.5 (on vncserver). I was at one point running KDE 3.3 on a ~200MHz laptop with 48MB SDRAM. This was not very usable, but it was reasonable after upgrading to 96MB.
AMD used speed rating systems with their K5 processor and even with their 5x86, which was a type of 486 (it was clocked at 133MHz. The K5 came before Cyrix's chip, but AMD was first with the 5x86.
> Right now, I'd love to have a combination of IE7's "Favorites Center" and Firefox's Bookmarks Sidebar. > The former shows and hides like a menu, but in the normal sidebar place (it can be pinned in place, > but my point here is that I don't want something taking up valuable screen space when I need it only > infrequently). The latter must always be visible to use it, but has a nice search feature.
I'm not 100% sure of what you mean, but isn't that like Opera's bookmarks panel in their sidebar? It appears or disappears with the press of a hotkey, and it has a search bar to quickly filter down the bookmarks. Or were you looking for something subtly different from this?
Also, of course, Firefox's blog-friendly baby brother Flock has an online bookmarking system that supports tagging. This may also be useful.
> It'd also be nice to have a better history view, as well. I might remember that I visited some page on > Sunday, but unless I can remember the title of the page I'm still going to have to manually search > through the history. Firefox is better about this, but search results don't tell me when I visited a > page.
Opera's History sidebar doesn't list visit times, but the full history manager (CTRL-ALT-H) does.
I have a feeling that Konqueror may have a novel approach to some of the above, but I don't have access to it right now.:/
> when I'm in Windows I'm having trouble navigating around because > I can't easily open a new Explorer window like I can in Nautilus.
Win-E brings up a new File Explorer in MS Windows. Or "Explore" from the Start button's context ("right-click") menu. You can map other shortcut combinations to opening specific folders (though it's not as easy to set up as it is in other OSes). If you want to open up a new File Explorer window for a specific folder from an existing Explorer window, you right-click on the folder (only in the Folder view, though) and choose "Explore" or "Open". That's not too hard.
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> There used to be a time when radio DJs would read the adverts over the air.
The only stations I listen to either have zero commercials (save for PSAs) or do the above. There are tons of them. And they tend to have a wider selection of music and entertainment than is offered on the regular stations.
> Pirate the fucking game?
Robble robble!
> No Zelda game has ever had spoken dialog, and it is still unclear whether this one will.
...times five thousand.
"Hey, listen!"
> Since I've never been able to get anything other than XFCE to run in 128MB, I'm sure as hell neither KDE or GNOME are
> going to like 128, never mind 64, unlike Windows 98/SE/ME which functioned just fine for the most part. Go ahead and prove
> me wrong. And running a custom haxx0rz version of FVWM doesn't count.
FWIW, my laptop is a Pentium 266 with 96MB RAM. It runs KDE without needing to use swap. It originally had 48MB RAM, and this ran KDE, but with lots of swapping.
There are ways to change the Firefox No/Yes button thing. One way is here, and I think there's a way to do it in about:config
> Nothing - provided you are using the latest version. It's fast, it looks good, it supports CSS (even passing
> ACID2), it has tabs, it accepts Mozilla-style extensions. In fact, it does everything Opera does -- but,
> unlike Opera, you get the source code.
There is a ton of stuff that Opera does that Konq doesn't. Here's what keeps me coming back to Opera:
* opening previously closed tabs -- Konq only has a tool for opening crashed pages, and that doesn't always work
* saving individual sessions
* putting tabs on the side (I open a lot of pages per session, so tabs on top or bottom won't fit comfortably)
* Fast Forward (auto-recognizing "Next page" links in articles and following them when you click a button or hit a hotkey, also works if you're browsing through a bunch of images linked from a single page
* SiteBar compatibility (this isn't a show stopper -- SiteBar is a roll-your-own version of del.icio.us -- and it's even a little problematic in Opera, but not as difficult)
* widgets (having instantaneous access to tiny apps, like a simple calculator, is much more convenient than waiting X seconds for something like kcalc to load)
* shift-G and G hotkeys to blast away styles and images from a current tab until I need them back (different from using bookmarklets, which only blast until you load another page)
* per-page fine-grained control over flash, ad banners, javascript functionality, animation, et al)
* Links panel, listing all ilnks from current page
* Shift + arrow navigation of links
There's like a billion more. I still like Konqueror and use it from time to time. As long as a browser can do mouse gestures, tabs, session saving and find-as-you-type (features that shared by Opera, Konqueror and properly extended Mozillas) and is reasonably cross platform, I'm comfortable with using it.
I tried kde-cygwin. It works, but it's hard to compile new packages, so you're stuck with what the project gives you. The version of cygwin also makes a difference -- I had to downgrade the cygwin dll in order to get KDE 3.4 to work.
It's very impressive, but slow. I ended up running kde apps from a fixed-size X server window running the ion window manager.
Real KDE for Win32 can't come fast enough!
The message I got when I visited there (and this is a coincidence, since I don't use my MySpace account except when a friend on another site specifically needs me to, in this case to check out an unrelated technical problem): "hey everyone! there's been a power outage in our data center. we're in the process of fixing it right now, so sit tight. hopefully we'll be back online within the hour. its 6:40pm PST now. wanna place a bet? -Tom"
When I reloaded half an hour later, "Tom" had removed the "its 6:40pm PST now. wanna place a bet?" part. I guess they knew they were having problems that'd take a while.
> the navigation bar is underneath the tabs in Opera where it is at the top of the browser in Firefox
You can get around this pretty easily. Shift-F12, go to the Toolbars section. The "Main bar" and the "Personal bar" are both normally above the Tab bar. So click the checkbox for the Personal bar so that it appears. Then, while you still have the "Appearance" (what came up when you hit Shirt-F12) window open, drag all the buttons and fields from the navigation bar to the personal bar. Then uncheck Navigation bar from the Appearance window so it goes away. Bam, it's set up like Firefox.
> bookmarks are not nearly as easy to setup as Firefox where you can drag-and-drop the links onto the bookmark bar
I use the side panel for dragging around bookmarks (and this works great!), so I probably can't help you much there. *However*, you can still drag links onto almost any bar of the gui, including the navigation bar. You can also drag bookmark folders from the side panel onto any bar. It's fairly similar, except that you can't rearrange stuff without either using the side panel or opening up the full page bookmark manager.
> Recovering closed pages. If the page closed is not the last page of a session,
> it will not be saved and is not recoverable. Can we have a system parallel to
> the "tab savers" for pages?
There's a little Trash icon with a down arrow next to it. Right now, it holds the last sixteen tabs I've closed. It's in the "Windows" panel and it also makes an appearance at the bottom or right of the tab bar, depending on whether you made that bar horizontal or vertical. Would this help? From the wording of your question, you might be talking about something different.
Oh, btw, it's also in the "Window" menu, submenu "Closed".
> I, too, was annoyed, bye the way.
I mean "by the way". I really do know the difference between the two homonyms. ^_^
If it helps, Ctrl+B does make sense. The original X/C/V for Cut/Copy/Paste were chosen because they were right next to each other. So now Paste-and-go is just the next key on that row from the one that does Paste. :)
I, too, was annoyed, bye the way. I remapped Ctrl-N to open a new tab. Every app should have editable hotkeys!
> Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts > Middle click options
:)
> Select "Open in background tab".
> Yes, they could make this a bit easier to find.
Hold shift and middle click on a link. It should immediately go to the "Middle click options" dialog. It does here, anyway.
> > Opera 9 allows per site preferences, so you can turn off/on plugins per site
> So where did they hide it?
Right click on any blank area of the page and choose "Site Preferences". The "Enable plug-ins" in the Content tab there will be just for that domain.
She is to the people of Omicron Persei Eight.
That's one of my most used real-life quotes stolen from Futurama. And I tend to type "oyg" whenever somebody types "omg" at me. Heh.
Perhaps it's the Nomad kind of sterilization. :)
The *vendor* used to be able to add whatever browser they wanted to the computer that *they* were selling. This became impossible at one point, when Microsoft started making threats at vendors who were using Netscape with their systems. Nowadays, it's just kind of pointless, since people get confused if the internet isn't a blue 'e' (don't even confuse them with a term like "web browser", which they might not understand).
The OS maker doesn't have to include the web browser with the OS. The vendor should be able to decide what packages are installed with their computer (as they do with virus scanners and office apps).
Ha, my girlfriend's sister has a startup discount clothing business, and she keeps complaining that her supplier usually sends her 30" pants that few people buy.
For what it's worth, my headless 500MHz K6-2 FreeBSD home server runs KDE 3.5 (on vncserver). I was at one point running KDE 3.3 on a ~200MHz laptop with 48MB SDRAM. This was not very usable, but it was reasonable after upgrading to 96MB.
AMD used speed rating systems with their K5 processor and even with their 5x86, which was a type of 486 (it was clocked at 133MHz. The K5 came before Cyrix's chip, but AMD was first with the 5x86.
> Right now, I'd love to have a combination of IE7's "Favorites Center" and Firefox's Bookmarks Sidebar.
:/
> The former shows and hides like a menu, but in the normal sidebar place (it can be pinned in place,
> but my point here is that I don't want something taking up valuable screen space when I need it only
> infrequently). The latter must always be visible to use it, but has a nice search feature.
I'm not 100% sure of what you mean, but isn't that like Opera's bookmarks panel in their sidebar? It appears or disappears with the press of a hotkey, and it has a search bar to quickly filter down the bookmarks. Or were you looking for something subtly different from this?
Also, of course, Firefox's blog-friendly baby brother Flock has an online bookmarking system that supports tagging. This may also be useful.
> It'd also be nice to have a better history view, as well. I might remember that I visited some page on
> Sunday, but unless I can remember the title of the page I'm still going to have to manually search
> through the history. Firefox is better about this, but search results don't tell me when I visited a
> page.
Opera's History sidebar doesn't list visit times, but the full history manager (CTRL-ALT-H) does.
I have a feeling that Konqueror may have a novel approach to some of the above, but I don't have access to it right now.
Sorry, that's:
Show Problem Dialog=0
Mine no longer gives the dialog. Edit the "opera6.ini" file
I think the below is what you add, to the "[User Prefs]" section:
Show Startup Dialog=0
> when I'm in Windows I'm having trouble navigating around because
> I can't easily open a new Explorer window like I can in Nautilus.
Win-E brings up a new File Explorer in MS Windows. Or "Explore" from the Start button's context ("right-click") menu. You can map other shortcut combinations to opening specific folders (though it's not as easy to set up as it is in other OSes). If you want to open up a new File Explorer window for a specific folder from an existing Explorer window, you right-click on the folder (only in the Folder view, though) and choose "Explore" or "Open". That's not too hard.
Mind, I prefer using Konq. ^_^
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-JC