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4g3nt_Smith
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PostPosted: 02-13-2005 04:33 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hell, I didn't pay for the OS and got IE anyway (Mac version :) ) But I don't use it, since its ages behind the other browsers, lacks compatibility with most of the standards, and encourages cuntish web-design. Aside from that, its an ok bare-bones browser, and would be quite nice if MS updated it to include standards support (along with Frontpage I assume) and filled the massive holes in it.
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PostPosted: 02-13-2005 10:25 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


IE is the standard...

Open source inclined people may not agree with it and hell, even I don't but with a 90%+ market share Microsoft defines what is standard on the Net.
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 12:21 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


well put. MS product = standard.

thats like saying linux is standard for desktop OS's. not true. same can be said for open source browsers.
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 06:00 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


That black Opera skin looks very nice (is that Stardock or someshit?) and I'm sure Opera is absolutely wonderful, but there's no fucking way I'm paying for a browser just for a miniscule speed increment.

As for all this talk of what's better/best/etc , comparing Opera and Firefox is like comparing the guy who won the 100m and the guy who came 0.05 secs behind him in second. They're still both fucking fast! And neither are fat bloaters like IE.

It may well be that exploits for FF may appear as it increases its market share from it's current stonking 4% to approach or even surpass IE's dismal 95% share (/sarcasm), but the same would be true of Opera if we all took rep's advice and started using it.
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 08:53 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Scourge wrote:
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Matter of fact I have the mouse gestures extension for FF and haven't even used it.
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Do yourself a favor and start using it for forward and back. Right click mouse drag left goes back a page. Right click drag right goes forward. That's what I use @ work where my mouse doesn't have forward/back buttons. @ home, my mouse does have those buttons and I don't have the plugin installed.
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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 01:35 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
That black Opera skin looks very nice (is that Stardock or someshit?)


You can download skins for Opera for free from their website. I'm using Flat Skin v.02 for Opera and K-OSX Black Win/Compact by dumbassjones as my VS.

It's a tad on the dark side, but it looks great in Photoshop. It helps me center my eyes on the work.



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PostPosted: 02-14-2005 02:56 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
And neither are fat bloaters like IE.


how is IE a fat bloater?
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