My OperaStill using Opera ... every day
Sunday, October 23, 2005 4:32:02 PM
When I first installed Opera I expected to use it for a few hours, maybe a day or two and then that would be it, but I must admit that here I am nearly a month later. What features and functions do I like?
- sessions
- more physical browsing space
My IE and Firefox browsers are both filled with too much information in the gray toolbar area. That's not primarily IE or Firefox fault, it's mine, so I've enjoyed the Opera break from all the tools. At the same time, I've missed some of those tools like:
Firefox extensions. This is the primary reason I use Firefox. I don't buy the whole "it's more secure" situation, so security isn't enough, but extensions, oh yes.
Toolbars. In IE my current most used toolbar is the Yahoo Toolbar which is available for Firefox and IE. Haven't tried the Firefox version yet, but it's on the to-do list. I also like the Alexa toolbar and the MSN toolbar that adds tabbed browsing to IE. I wouldn't use the MSN toolbar if it wasn't for the tabbed browsing.
Recently I reviewed Flock over at Hmm with Flock off to a bloody impressive start and I found it important to mention that I now am regularly using three browsers in Windows, of which Opera is one of them. The problem with running these three browsers with a combined total of 15 windows between all three (8 in Opera as a startup session, 5 in Firefox and 2 in IE) is that this consumes too much memory. Beside me on the Tablet PC (second machine), I usually have IE fired up with 2-3 windows and Firefox isn't up, but I run the Chatzilla IRC client.
On the Mac side, in the year that I've owned one, Safari has been the only browser I've tried.
Opera's Future
It will be curious to see where I'm at with all this after three months. I wish IE had something like Opera's sessions feature. I understand Firefox does have something similar, but it's not as easy to implement and use. As for Flock? It's way too rough at this point to replace any of these other three and frankly I don't think I can run a 4th browser, so they would have to replace on of the three.
The new guy (to me) on the block, Opera, is looking pretty safe at the moment.
- sessions
- more physical browsing space
My IE and Firefox browsers are both filled with too much information in the gray toolbar area. That's not primarily IE or Firefox fault, it's mine, so I've enjoyed the Opera break from all the tools. At the same time, I've missed some of those tools like:
Firefox extensions. This is the primary reason I use Firefox. I don't buy the whole "it's more secure" situation, so security isn't enough, but extensions, oh yes.
Toolbars. In IE my current most used toolbar is the Yahoo Toolbar which is available for Firefox and IE. Haven't tried the Firefox version yet, but it's on the to-do list. I also like the Alexa toolbar and the MSN toolbar that adds tabbed browsing to IE. I wouldn't use the MSN toolbar if it wasn't for the tabbed browsing.
Recently I reviewed Flock over at Hmm with Flock off to a bloody impressive start and I found it important to mention that I now am regularly using three browsers in Windows, of which Opera is one of them. The problem with running these three browsers with a combined total of 15 windows between all three (8 in Opera as a startup session, 5 in Firefox and 2 in IE) is that this consumes too much memory. Beside me on the Tablet PC (second machine), I usually have IE fired up with 2-3 windows and Firefox isn't up, but I run the Chatzilla IRC client.
On the Mac side, in the year that I've owned one, Safari has been the only browser I've tried.
Opera's Future
It will be curious to see where I'm at with all this after three months. I wish IE had something like Opera's sessions feature. I understand Firefox does have something similar, but it's not as easy to implement and use. As for Flock? It's way too rough at this point to replace any of these other three and frankly I don't think I can run a 4th browser, so they would have to replace on of the three.
The new guy (to me) on the block, Opera, is looking pretty safe at the moment.
