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I think that the plugin culture that Firefox has established makes it a leader in the browser sphere. It’s a pity that IE dominates market share!

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I have to give Opera props when it comes to cellphone web browsers, mainly because you can view the entire webpage on ur small cellphone display, and zoom in to what ever you want to view on the page

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(is the goodness… seriously, it’s awesome)

Well, guys, thanks for the heads-up! Perhaps I’ll give Opera a try when they sort out the Gmail functionality (my gmail tab is permanently open). For now, though, Firefox (3 beta 5) is rocking my world…

(Perhaps you won’t care, but perhaps you’d be interested to know that Firefox are trying to set a world download record when they release Firefox 3 - apparently sometime in June.)

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Amazing how they turn us into product prophets, eh…

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as you know, getting a vista machine and downgrading to xp voids the warranty. this is a problem.

are you running vista by choice?

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Thank you very much for the support on Opera, really appreciated. I hope they fix the google problem and then it will be perfect. The downloads are more stable than in any other browser. I have tried safari on my machine which is running Vista and its very grey, not appealing tot he eye like other browsers. I havent worked with Lynx yet but i hope to give it a shot in the next few days….

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gmail chat in opera: don’t do it. open firefox for that.

another thing that takes some adjusting is that popups that you are using [as if, you open a gmail chat in a popup or have other websites that run chats in popups] must be found via control+tab instead of by alt+tab. it takes a while to get used to.

but, it’s nice that, in opera, when you right click on a link, it gives you the option to open the page in either a background tab [which is more or less the default for ffx] as well as a new immediate tab. i like that it gives 3 options, basically. [new tab, background tab, new window]. nifty.

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opera can find its way around connectivity issues in some places that even firefox cannot, which is also nice.

however, running gmail in opera can be problematic. [and running gmail in firefox can be just as bad as well.]

i download a lot for my work, and for many of the sites from which i download, opera is superior to even firefox. i try not to run M$ internet products on my computer, as most viruses and worms are written for them.

i’m actually quite clad that they have gone back to giving it away rather than charging for it, courtesy of the deal they have done with yahoo.

one of the nice things that opera does and that firefox does not is that you get a mini blurb of the page when you pass the mouse over each tab. in firefox you have to commit to clicking on the tab to remember what was on the page.

i like that opera isn’t as resource hungry as either firefox or IE, even when you have 10-15 tabs going, as i often do. [there’s a caveat to that: if one of those tabs is gmail, you’re toast. but that’s true across all browsers.]

joseph, have you used lynx? or safari on a pc? i didn’t know the latter was available for pc until very recently. i’ll probably be testing it out later this week.

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What do you mean by “efficient surfing”?

Doesn’t Firefox do all these things, too? (except for the notes function, which sounds cool)

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