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Offline kelly

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« on: February 28, 2007, 11:34:41 AM »
Opera the Best Browser for the Mac

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« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2007, 12:47:28 PM »
Even without a buildin RSS reader in Camino, i'm hooked on that browser from the day Krissel pointed it out.
It's a good browser and with the small icons and small tab text it gives me just that little more browser space then the others (pretty important on my 12" iBook).

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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2007, 03:21:47 PM »
Opera is not bad.  Neither is Safari. However I'll stick with Firefox.

Why? because I can customise FF using add-ons in ways that neither Opera or Safari let me.

I prefer to block ads, Flash, selectively, restrict Google's ability to track me amongst other things.  I've yet to come across a browser that lets me do this as easily and as well as Firefox.  

I know that people use PithHelmet with Safari. I know that Opera has a blocking feature. However neither is as good, (and in the case of Opera, as easy to use) as Ad-block.  

Yes, I could use Privoxy, but why run yet another separate App to do the job of an add-on?


As regards the abomination known as Flash, I've yet to come across anything better than Flashblock.

A minor point.  I quite enjoy Stumbleupon.  Neither of those Browsers support it.

I could mention other things but I'm sure that other TS users will do that for me smile.gif

Opera "can" be customised, but hey, do you really want to spend all that time doing it. It's like using KDE on a Mac.  You "can" do almost anything if you want to spend the time and energy doing it.

Personally I'll do it the FF way.  Use accredited Add-ons

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« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2007, 09:00:35 PM »
Serious rendering issues with my copy.  No go for me bigtime.  See the attached file.
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2007, 11:45:56 AM »
Can you give me a link to that site?
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2007, 02:25:39 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2007, 04:12:26 PM »
Thanks! I thought it might be a bad syyle sheet or just a badly understood one. At the end of the "Head portion of the html there is a lot of browser 'sniffing' for various versions of Internet Exploder. It could be that it confuses Opera with some version of IE and you are getting the 'hacked' version of the CSS. Site displays fine on FF 2. I'll see what happens on my version of Camino...

Nope, perfectly displayed. Are you sure you haven't set it to 'spoof' IE? Assuming that is possible in Camino. dntknw.gif

I also notice that text is displayed slightly larger by default in Camino. OK, that's because I have 14 pt Times set in FF and Camino comes with 16 pt by default. Nevermind. doh.gif
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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2007, 08:16:49 PM »
It displays perfectly for me using Opera, too. smile.gif
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« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2007, 10:34:10 PM »
Moi, aussi.

What version of Opera have you got there, Csonni? I have 9 - it's fine. smile.gif

However, with earlier versions of it I definitely ran into some whacked out rendering on pages that rendered just fine on every other browser. If I recall, it sometimes fell over on pages that were pure CSS layout. V 9.0 may have fixed a lot of that. Being a Safari/Firefox user 99.9% of the time, I wouldn't know.
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« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2007, 04:46:29 AM »
I've got Opera 9- just downloaded it.
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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2007, 05:05:48 AM »
That's just one person's opinion. I'll bet Moore hasn't spent much if any time with Camino.

I do like Opera and was willing to give it a really long trial period, which I did. Took a lot of time to customize it with themes and all kinds of add-ons. It is a very attractive browser.

BUT, it lost my loyalty due to three major deficiencies:

1. Not nearly as quick as Camino. For instance, accessing my news page at myway.com took 1.49 seconds in Camino, 5.96 in Opera.

2. Wheel scrolling in Opera is not smooth and it jumps too far each roll of the wheel. Very annoying. In addition if you click at the top or bottom of the side scroll bar it should jump to the top or bottom of the page. It does not do that in Opera.

3. In Opera you can not highlight text on a page and drag and drop it to the desktop to create a clipping (or drag/drop to DropDrawers or Copypaste window). It acts like a Windows app in that respect. The only alternative is to copy to their note page or use CopyPaste commands which means many more steps. I make use of this ability all the time so this was a killer problem for me.

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« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2007, 07:32:13 AM »
Safari. The only issue I have with it...2.0.4 at least doesn't jump back exactly to the last point on the list after looking at an item on eBay. Otherwise it's just dandy.

Camino is good but, you know that pesky <YAWN> inertia. wink.gif
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