Tabbed browsing: Opera had MDI. Mozilla added tabs. Opera now has MDI that looks and acts like tabs unless you unmaximize a tab.
Pop-up blocking: Opera was the first to have a "block pop-ups" feature, but it stopped all window.open() calls, so users had to toggle it all the time. Mozilla was the first to have a "block unrequested pop-ups" feature. Firefox was the first to block unrequested pop-ups by default.
This is neither a security flaw in ActiveX nor a "clueless user" problem. It is a security flaw in Internet Explorer's user interface: there is no indication that placing a site in the "Trusted Sites" zone will allow it to run arbitrary code as you.
The porn industry is, as usual, one step ahead. MiltonSoft's Thumbnail Gallery Finder lets you search a large database of porn galleries for copies of an image you have. It recognizes images even when they are cropped or resized, and it sometimes recognizes that two photos from the same set are "similar" even though they are not the same photo. It's a great solution for the "incomplete photoset" problem. It even comes with a Firefox extension (which I wrote) that lets you right-click an image to find more galleries containing it.
Even better, what will he do when someone modifies the exploit so that Sophos misses it? I assume Sophos only sees the original HTML, not every intermediate call to e.g. eval(), so it should be easy.
Unchecking "allow web sites to... change status bar text" only prevents one method of making a link take you to a different URL than what is shown in the status bar. The other method is to change the link's target as soon as you click on the link. You might have to disable JS to prevent web sites from doing that.
I asked an "Did you mean A or B?" question and you responded "yes". My question demonstrated that I knew about Opera's features, and you responded "download opera to compare". Either you are trolling or you misunderstood my reply to your comment.
When you used freeipods.com, who did you give referral links to? Did you express your link as "help me get a free ipod", "get a free ipod for yourself", or both?
The page your sig links to does not mention a discount, nor is there any obvious way to get to a page mentioning the discount from that page. There's no way for me to verify that I would get the discount without going through most of the process of ordering. If your sig were an ad on Google, it would be violating Google's ToS.
Current calculations give a 1% or greater chance of collision capable of regional devestation. Most likely, new telescoping observations will lead to re-assignment to level 0.
Amateur astronomers, please do your part to reduce the probability of impact by taking new measurements of the asteroid's position every night until the probability of impact is less than 1.0e-06. You can track your collective progress using this chart, which shows the current probability at 1.6e-02.
Do you think tabbed browsing, popup blocking, mouse gestures, etc. would have been around if no one came up with them? Most of the features Firefox brags about on its front page were either invented by Opera, or implemented in Opera ages before it was available in Firefox.
Your statement is misleading because it is false for each of the examples you give. When David Hyatt added tabs to Mozilla, Opera had MDI with a switchbar, not tabs. When the "block unrequested pop-ups" feature was added to Mozilla, Opera only had "block all new windows opened by scripts", which breaks many sites. Firefox blocked pop-ups by default long before Opera did. Firefox doesn't have mouse gestures at all.
Your post implies that Opera "works better out of the box" than Firefox, but that isn't my expierence. I'd give the "works out of the box" point to Firefox.
Opera - Little setup required on first install
Opera 8.0 forced me to make two choices the first time I ran it: the types of ads to show, and whether to use tabs or windows or some "advanced" mode that it doesn't even attempt to describe. It also forced me to make a choice the first time I tried to use autoscroll (it asked me what should happen when I middle-click on links). By contrast, when I install Firefox for the first time, it only asks me whether I want to import settings from another browser.
Opera's defaults are also poorer than Firefox. For example, it starts at the last page I had open rather than my home page, and it opens mailto: links in its internal mail client.
Firefox - Plugins and configuration needs to be done before you get all the functionality you want
I do use several extensions in Firefox, but they all provide features that aren't available in Opera at all. (I use Thumbs, Search Keys, and Google Pagerank Status.)
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Enabling pipelining does not increase the number of connections made to the server, nor does increasing the maximum size of a pipeline.
Tabbed browsing: Opera had MDI. Mozilla added tabs. Opera now has MDI that looks and acts like tabs unless you unmaximize a tab.
Pop-up blocking: Opera was the first to have a "block pop-ups" feature, but it stopped all window.open() calls, so users had to toggle it all the time. Mozilla was the first to have a "block unrequested pop-ups" feature. Firefox was the first to block unrequested pop-ups by default.
Pipelining reduces the amount of bandwidth a server needs to give you a page. Changing the paint delay to 0 has no or little effect on servers.
You assume that SafeSearch successfully blocks all porn.
This is neither a security flaw in ActiveX nor a "clueless user" problem. It is a security flaw in Internet Explorer's user interface: there is no indication that placing a site in the "Trusted Sites" zone will allow it to run arbitrary code as you.
http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Eye_evolution links to some relevant papers.
Was that loud enough? 'cause I can make it all caps if you like.
Or maybe you can't. You never know, thanks to Slashdot's lame filter.
I like your analogy.
The porn industry is, as usual, one step ahead. MiltonSoft's Thumbnail Gallery Finder lets you search a large database of porn galleries for copies of an image you have. It recognizes images even when they are cropped or resized, and it sometimes recognizes that two photos from the same set are "similar" even though they are not the same photo. It's a great solution for the "incomplete photoset" problem. It even comes with a Firefox extension (which I wrote) that lets you right-click an image to find more galleries containing it.
Even better, what will he do when someone modifies the exploit so that Sophos misses it? I assume Sophos only sees the original HTML, not every intermediate call to e.g. eval(), so it should be easy.
The UI hole (right-aligning the URL) is also in an unexpected place.
Security-related dialogs are actually a major source of security holes in web browsers.
Unchecking "allow web sites to... change status bar text" only prevents one method of making a link take you to a different URL than what is shown in the status bar. The other method is to change the link's target as soon as you click on the link. You might have to disable JS to prevent web sites from doing that.
I always get pissed when my TGP sites do a crappy job of describing the links they have.
You should try Thumbs, a Firefox extension. One click on the Thumbs button lets you see the first thumbnail from every gallery a TGP links to.
I asked an "Did you mean A or B?" question and you responded "yes". My question demonstrated that I knew about Opera's features, and you responded "download opera to compare". Either you are trolling or you misunderstood my reply to your comment.
By "fast back button" do you mean adding a gesture to go back or increasing the speed when you click the back button?
Thanks for the fast download. I think I'm seeding now, but the Bittorrent client I used to download it doesn't make that clear.
Why do you say that the "full version" (?) of the Google Toolbar is spyware?
When you used freeipods.com, who did you give referral links to? Did you express your link as "help me get a free ipod", "get a free ipod for yourself", or both?
That takes about 4 clicks, which is too many.
The page your sig links to does not mention a discount, nor is there any obvious way to get to a page mentioning the discount from that page. There's no way for me to verify that I would get the discount without going through most of the process of ordering. If your sig were an ad on Google, it would be violating Google's ToS.
Level 4 on the Torino scale means:
Current calculations give a 1% or greater chance of collision capable of regional devestation. Most likely, new telescoping observations will lead to re-assignment to level 0.
Amateur astronomers, please do your part to reduce the probability of impact by taking new measurements of the asteroid's position every night until the probability of impact is less than 1.0e-06. You can track your collective progress using this chart, which shows the current probability at 1.6e-02.
the homing device I attached to the asteroid last month.
I got errors using the download link on the opera.com main page and the official download page with the dropdown list of primary mirrors.
Do you think tabbed browsing, popup blocking, mouse gestures, etc. would have been around if no one came up with them? Most of the features Firefox brags about on its front page were either invented by Opera, or implemented in Opera ages before it was available in Firefox.
Your statement is misleading because it is false for each of the examples you give. When David Hyatt added tabs to Mozilla, Opera had MDI with a switchbar, not tabs. When the "block unrequested pop-ups" feature was added to Mozilla, Opera only had "block all new windows opened by scripts", which breaks many sites. Firefox blocked pop-ups by default long before Opera did. Firefox doesn't have mouse gestures at all.
Your post implies that Opera "works better out of the box" than Firefox, but that isn't my expierence. I'd give the "works out of the box" point to Firefox.
Opera - Little setup required on first install
Opera 8.0 forced me to make two choices the first time I ran it: the types of ads to show, and whether to use tabs or windows or some "advanced" mode that it doesn't even attempt to describe. It also forced me to make a choice the first time I tried to use autoscroll (it asked me what should happen when I middle-click on links). By contrast, when I install Firefox for the first time, it only asks me whether I want to import settings from another browser.
Opera's defaults are also poorer than Firefox. For example, it starts at the last page I had open rather than my home page, and it opens mailto: links in its internal mail client.
Firefox - Plugins and configuration needs to be done before you get all the functionality you want
I do use several extensions in Firefox, but they all provide features that aren't available in Opera at all. (I use Thumbs, Search Keys, and Google Pagerank Status.)