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From: James Jolley on 19 Apr 2010 12:50 On 2010-04-19 15:49:04 +0100, "James Dore" <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> said: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:03:54 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > >> This has probably been done to death but what actually makes a good >> browser? Many here prefer one over another, whether it be Safari or >> Firefox or some other. My views have already been stated and I won't >> bother boring you all again because I know my views here aren't >> generally respected. >> >> I only bring it up because of Jamie's remarks that he didn't use Safari >> in the hacking thread. >> >> Best >> >> James- >> > > Opera makes a good browser. > - It's nice and configurable, without downloading lots of plugins. > - It has a good vertical bookmark pane > - Tabbed browsing and realtime preview of other tabs. > - A blue dot on a tab shows you when the page has updated (or finished > loading) in the background > - Opera Sync means I have the same environment on five different > machines and three different platforms (Mac/Win/Lin) (no plugin > required) > - Built-in mail and newsreader > - Built-in RSS reader > - Built-in IM client > > Nothing else has offered a good enough reason to change, either. > > Cheers, I should give this one a try then. Thanks for the headsup.
From: Graeme on 19 Apr 2010 13:09 In message <833funFvhpU1(a)mid.individual.net> James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-19 15:49:04 +0100, "James Dore" <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> said: > > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:03:54 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > > > >> This has probably been done to death but what actually makes a good > >> browser? Many here prefer one over another, whether it be Safari or > >> Firefox or some other. My views have already been stated and I won't > >> bother boring you all again because I know my views here aren't > >> generally respected. > >> > >> I only bring it up because of Jamie's remarks that he didn't use Safari > >> in the hacking thread. > >> > >> Best > >> > >> James- > >> > > > > Opera makes a good browser. > > - It's nice and configurable, without downloading lots of plugins. > > - It has a good vertical bookmark pane > > - Tabbed browsing and realtime preview of other tabs. > > - A blue dot on a tab shows you when the page has updated (or finished > > loading) in the background > > - Opera Sync means I have the same environment on five different > > machines and three different platforms (Mac/Win/Lin) (no plugin > > required) > > - Built-in mail and newsreader > > - Built-in RSS reader > > - Built-in IM client > > > > Nothing else has offered a good enough reason to change, either. > > > > Cheers, > > I should give this one a try then. Thanks for the headsup. > How can you get Opera mail to distinguish between different demon postboxes? Just tried to set it up and it will apparently only access my generic mail account. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Woody on 19 Apr 2010 13:24 James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > This has probably been done to death but what actually makes a good > browser? Many here prefer one over another, whether it be Safari or > Firefox or some other. My views have already been stated and I won't > bother boring you all again because I know my views here aren't > generally respected. > > I only bring it up because of Jamie's remarks that he didn't use Safari > in the hacking thread. I use lots of them. I use safari mostly on the macbook, unless there is some pressing reason to use firefox (which is rare these days). I use safari and firefox on the iMac upstairs, mostly safari for general browsing, and firefox as it logs in to my stuff automatically, rather than safari which logs into my wifes stuff automatically. On the PC, firefox is actually the default browser, but I use safari and chrome interchangably. Feature wise, I like the favourite sites thing but other than that, safari mostly stays out of the way, I like the developer stuff (more than the firefox stuff) but no real tearing reason which one I use. I even use all simultaneously on different sites. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Paul Womar on 19 Apr 2010 17:58 Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > How can you get Opera mail to distinguish between different demon postboxes? > > Just tried to set it up and it will apparently only access my generic mail > account. I haven't used Demon for years but don't you use the "username+nodename" format to do that? -- -> The email address used in this message *IS* valid <-
From: Roger Merriman on 21 Apr 2010 17:45
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > On 2010-04-20, James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > It occurs to me that I've not looked at OmniWeb in a while. Might have > > to > > give that a go. > > It's been temporarily retired on my machine... I reckon I'm it's most > vocal supporter on here and I still love a lot of what it does. But it > was just slow, slow, slow, and it finally got too much for me. I'm > trying it again when I get a faster machine, or at least one that > doesn't burn my thighs if I leave Omniweb running with a load of tabs > open... > > > -z- nothing really to add but Yup or 1+ or well what ever. shame as it's a lovely browser in many ways. roger -- www.rogermerriman.com |