Since every other current browser allows USERS, and not 'webmasters', to decide how their browser behaves.
Lynx/Links users are thieves, since they don't allow any JS at all. Opera users are thieves, since they can deny non-requested pop-ups. Mozilla users are thieves, since they can use a blacklist/whitelist of pop-up sites. Netscape 6/7 users become thieves, if they add back disabled Mozilla behaviour.
What's next? People are thieves if they disallow blinking text, flash, marquee, Java applets, ActiveX controls?
Blind and deaf people are thieves, because they can't see the info?
I become a thief if I use a user stylesheet to turn purple-on-green websites black-on-white?
I am a thief if I copy text from a website, to read it in Notepad, or print out a web page?
When did the WWW turn from a collection of hyperlinked text with markup into a visual medium where 'content providers' get legal backing to decide what/I/ am supposed to see?
I stay on Windows because all programs I use, all games I play, and all software I bought is for Windows, and Windows only.
And there is nothing wrong with Windows -- no matter what the anti-MS nazis keep yelling. What it does, it does well, and I happen to like the interface. And when I do want to change that, there is LiteStep.
Sure Windows is far from perfect, but untill there comes out a perfect emulator that allows me to use all my software in Linux, as fast or faster than on Windows, I'm staying with my current OS.
Sure I like open source, but I use Opera instead of Mozilla simply because I like Opera a lot better, and I use Windows instead of a Linux distro because every single app I use is for Windows only.
The problem is they can be used to track you across websites, remember?
Site A has an ad banner from Banner company X, which serves a cookie. Site B also has an ad banner, and company X now knows when you were on site A, and site B. Say both are dealing with tools, then company X will be in a perfect position to start profiling you. You have never given them this info consentually, but still they have information on you.
An X-Box is basically a custom built PC, so if you run Linux on it, you get a cheap, quite powerful, near intell-compatible computer, with a powerful graphics card.
That's why MS made the X-Box OS so limited, they don't want people to use it as a cheap PC -- it is being sold far under cost price, so they'll have to earn money on it by selling games.
If you run Linux on it, and play free games instead, you are costing Redmond quite a lot of cash;)
Like Mozilla, Konq doesn't offer real MDI browsing -- it just lets you open multiple maximized windows inside one parent app. The speed gain by using this kind of MDI, is almost nill, especially compared to Opera's elegant MDI mode.
Full-screen tabbed browsing is no tabbed browsing at all.
Use Opera with all images, javascript, iframes, plugins, sounds, movies, cookies, font support, etc disabled (basically turning it INTO a text-only browser such as Lynx is), and Opera is a lot faster.
The speed of Opera's rendering engine beats any other one in existance.
Mozilla tabs are not real MDI: they're fullscreen windows, which behave exactly like SDI browser windows.
They also take ages to load on my system.
With Opera, I can position multiple not-full screen windows next to eachother, or cascade them all, or tile, you name it, Opera has it. The BEST MDI application of any app I've yet found.
And THAT is where the speed increase lies: I'll go to page, and quickly open all links (q to jump to the next link, ctrl+shift+space to open in background). By the time I've read the main page, all others will have loaded, and I can read those.
Untill Mozilla gets real MDI (as in, Opera-like non-fullscreen MDI), it will always be slower. Even if they do manage to fix the immense memory requirements.
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Since every other current browser allows USERS, and not 'webmasters', to decide how their browser behaves.
/I/ am supposed to see?
Lynx/Links users are thieves, since they don't allow any JS at all.
Opera users are thieves, since they can deny non-requested pop-ups.
Mozilla users are thieves, since they can use a blacklist/whitelist of pop-up sites.
Netscape 6/7 users become thieves, if they add back disabled Mozilla behaviour.
What's next? People are thieves if they disallow blinking text, flash, marquee, Java applets, ActiveX controls?
Blind and deaf people are thieves, because they can't see the info?
I become a thief if I use a user stylesheet to turn purple-on-green websites black-on-white?
I am a thief if I copy text from a website, to read it in Notepad, or print out a web page?
When did the WWW turn from a collection of hyperlinked text with markup into a visual medium where 'content providers' get legal backing to decide what
I stay on Windows because all programs I use, all games I play, and all software I bought is for Windows, and Windows only.
And there is nothing wrong with Windows -- no matter what the anti-MS nazis keep yelling. What it does, it does well, and I happen to like the interface. And when I do want to change that, there is LiteStep.
Sure Windows is far from perfect, but untill there comes out a perfect emulator that allows me to use all my software in Linux, as fast or faster than on Windows, I'm staying with my current OS.
Sure I like open source, but I use Opera instead of Mozilla simply because I like Opera a lot better, and I use Windows instead of a Linux distro because every single app I use is for Windows only.
The problem is they can be used to track you across websites, remember?
Site A has an ad banner from Banner company X, which serves a cookie.
Site B also has an ad banner, and company X now knows when you were on site A, and site B.
Say both are dealing with tools, then company X will be in a perfect position to start profiling you. You have never given them this info consentually, but still they have information on you.
Have you ever tried Opera for BeOS? http://www.opera.com/beos/
;)
It's still in the 3.62 version, but has 128-bit encryption, SSL 2 and 3, TLS 1.0, HTML 3.2, JavaScript 1.1, CSS1, and plug-in support.
While it is neither free nor up to standards compared to Opera for other platforms, it is certainly better than NetPositive, imnhso.
Besides, it never hurts to have an alternative
Sure there is a point.
;)
An X-Box is basically a custom built PC, so if you run Linux on it, you get a cheap, quite powerful, near intell-compatible computer, with a powerful graphics card.
That's why MS made the X-Box OS so limited, they don't want people to use it as a cheap PC -- it is being sold far under cost price, so they'll have to earn money on it by selling games.
If you run Linux on it, and play free games instead, you are costing Redmond quite a lot of cash
Get if from http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ , and transcode all them Mp3s. Using your external, fully licensed, MP3 decoder of course :p
In Opera, MDI windows are not necessarily maximized.
For a very simple example: Screenshot @ Opera.com
I don't really see the difference between forced-fullscreen MDI and SDI.
Like Mozilla, Konq doesn't offer real MDI browsing -- it just lets you open multiple maximized windows inside one parent app.
The speed gain by using this kind of MDI, is almost nill, especially compared to Opera's elegant MDI mode.
Full-screen tabbed browsing is no tabbed browsing at all.
Not true.
Use Opera with all images, javascript, iframes, plugins, sounds, movies, cookies, font support, etc disabled (basically turning it INTO a text-only browser such as Lynx is), and Opera is a lot faster.
The speed of Opera's rendering engine beats any other one in existance.
Not at all.
Mozilla tabs are not real MDI: they're fullscreen windows, which behave exactly like SDI browser windows.
They also take ages to load on my system.
With Opera, I can position multiple not-full screen windows next to eachother, or cascade them all, or tile, you name it, Opera has it. The BEST MDI application of any app I've yet found.
And THAT is where the speed increase lies: I'll go to page, and quickly open all links (q to jump to the next link, ctrl+shift+space to open in background). By the time I've read the main page, all others will have loaded, and I can read those.
Untill Mozilla gets real MDI (as in, Opera-like non-fullscreen MDI), it will always be slower. Even if they do manage to fix the immense memory requirements.