The 'suite' aspect of Opera is really unnoticeable if you're not looking for it. Integrated bittorrent irc + m2 Mail client are nice but really inobtrusive. It's not like Opera is a behemoth download
I'm no Opera fanboy, in fact I switched to Firefox from Opera a couple of years back, but primarily for the extensions - pederick's webdeveloper / adblock / bugmenot are indispensable. Since then, most extensions I have installed are to emulate some of the Opera features - stop&reload / gestures / paste+go.
What Firefox is not even close to Opera on is speed, especially relative to memory footprint. The 'quick' back+forward that is enabled with the 'not-a-memory-leak' cache in FF is a really poor second to Opera's handling.
And the feature I see wanted most by ex-Opera users is the full-page zoom. Implemented so it is incredibly quick, and totally reliable. The new IE7 zoom, and any of the Zooming extensions for FF are really pale imitations of this.
Add to this the tab flexibility gained from a proper MDI, the free-as-in-beer for desktop, and countless other minor features, all they really need is one more and I'd be straight back there...
Compatibility with Firefox Extensions;-)
Well, the act of installing may not change the default browser, but I'll be a monkey's uncle if the first time you start IE7 it doesn't have the old:
Internet Explorer is not currently your default browser. Would you like to make it your default now? [YES] [AFFIRMATIVE] [HAI] [WHY THANKYOU, I WILL] [YA] [no]
And how many will bother to select the non-default [no] option?
I'm sure 'Urban' as a sell-any-old-crap gimmick may be nearing its demise, but there is no such thing as a dead genre. A well-made innovative game can be in any genre at all and will sell well. Who'd have thought 'puppies' was a genre that would effectively carry a market launch of a handheld?
"Lending out a record 30.4 million books, CDs and videos in 2005 -- a 5 per cent jump from the previous year -- the TPL now boasts a circulation that is a full third larger than its closest continental counterpart, Bryant says.
"It's not that we're in the lead by a small margin," Bryant says.
"The next busiest library system in the United States (in Queens, New York) is around 19 million items circulated."
This just seems like a combination of "wouldn't it be nice" on the part of the telecoms, with "F--- you, we will not use your pig-dog search teqnologique" from the french. Combine those two sentiments with classic European beaurocracy and what do you get?
12 review boards, 17 redrafted amendments to 14 bills, $3 billion of wasted tax money and, erm, that's it.
The actual phrase is "Like Swift Death", which comes from an article written in the The Los Angeles Free Press:
http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/staf1.htm
But, considering that is the only google hit for the term, I suspect that it never really caught on in the public psyche.
The music function is not yet rolled out to localised googles (.ca here), but using the.com result: http://www.google.com/search?q=the%20who , I get no error (of the 'common words' variety), and the new music link thing for "The Who"
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I think he's damning Opera with faint praise.
;-)
The 'suite' aspect of Opera is really unnoticeable if you're not looking for it. Integrated bittorrent irc + m2 Mail client are nice but really inobtrusive. It's not like Opera is a behemoth download
I'm no Opera fanboy, in fact I switched to Firefox from Opera a couple of years back, but primarily for the extensions - pederick's webdeveloper / adblock / bugmenot are indispensable. Since then, most extensions I have installed are to emulate some of the Opera features - stop&reload / gestures / paste+go.
What Firefox is not even close to Opera on is speed, especially relative to memory footprint. The 'quick' back+forward that is enabled with the 'not-a-memory-leak' cache in FF is a really poor second to Opera's handling.
And the feature I see wanted most by ex-Opera users is the full-page zoom. Implemented so it is incredibly quick, and totally reliable. The new IE7 zoom, and any of the Zooming extensions for FF are really pale imitations of this.
Add to this the tab flexibility gained from a proper MDI, the free-as-in-beer for desktop, and countless other minor features, all they really need is one more and I'd be straight back there...
Compatibility with Firefox Extensions
Thankyou very much, I'll be here all week.
And how many will bother to select the non-default [no] option?
I'm sure 'Urban' as a sell-any-old-crap gimmick may be nearing its demise, but there is no such thing as a dead genre. A well-made innovative game can be in any genre at all and will sell well. Who'd have thought 'puppies' was a genre that would effectively carry a market launch of a handheld?
In fact, Toronto has by far the most popular public library system in North America:
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from: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pa
"Lending out a record 30.4 million books, CDs and videos in 2005 -- a 5 per cent jump from the previous year -- the TPL now boasts a circulation that is a full third larger than its closest continental counterpart, Bryant says. "It's not that we're in the lead by a small margin," Bryant says. "The next busiest library system in the United States (in Queens, New York) is around 19 million items circulated."
and quaero.fr, and a pending registration on quaero.eu Looks like someone didn't do their research before announcing the great rollout.
This just seems like a combination of "wouldn't it be nice" on the part of the telecoms, with "F--- you, we will not use your pig-dog search teqnologique" from the french. Combine those two sentiments with classic European beaurocracy and what do you get? 12 review boards, 17 redrafted amendments to 14 bills, $3 billion of wasted tax money and, erm, that's it.
The actual phrase is "Like Swift Death", which comes from an article written in the The Los Angeles Free Press: http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/staf1.htm But, considering that is the only google hit for the term, I suspect that it never really caught on in the public psyche.
The music function is not yet rolled out to localised googles (.ca here), but using the .com result:
http://www.google.com/search?q=the%20who
, I get no error (of the 'common words' variety), and the new music link thing for "The Who"
Except perhaps...er... what was the name of that search engine...you know...er...
Ah, you beat me to that one. I was going to point out their Exorcist - far superior to the original IMHO