Hasn't crashed yet. :)
(And it turns out a compatible upgrade to my theme was available. It just hasn't been posted to the official themes site yet. Woo hoo!)
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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DXMachina - Nov 30, 2005 10:05:49 am PST #5768 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
amych - Nov 30, 2005 10:14:11 am PST #5769 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I downloaded that for work and home -- it's fast.
It is, but it's not even the speed I notice. I've been using it since the first beta -- I was supposed to just try it out and go back to the stable version, but once I got my hands on drag-and-drop tab ordering, I just couldn't bear to give it up.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2005 10:16:28 am PST #5770 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why is Opera losing this race? Is it the upswell of savvy users that followed the Mozilla story? Because Opera's been doing many of the things that people like about Firefox, and longer. I haven't found it significantly slower, and it's stable for me.
Yet it's barely a blip in the usage numbers.
DCJensen - Nov 30, 2005 10:19:32 am PST #5771 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Maybe it's the name, maybe the lack of massive promotion, maybe something else, I dunno. I wonder if there are any articles on the subject.
Gudanov - Nov 30, 2005 10:27:41 am PST #5772 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
I think Firefox's roots that reach back to Netscape probably have a lot to do with it.
Jon B. - Nov 30, 2005 10:29:06 am PST #5773 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I only discovered recently that Opera was now free.
Jessica - Nov 30, 2005 10:29:42 am PST #5774 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I haven't found it significantly slower
I have, at least on my old Windows machine. And back when I originally switched to Firefox, the lack of banner ads was a big plus.
[eta:
I think Firefox's roots that reach back to Netscape probably have a lot to do with it.
Actually, for me, the Netscape roots were what kept me from switching for a pretty long time. I've always found Netscape (and Mozilla) clunky and irritating to use. Opera was the first browser I ever really liked.]
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2005 10:31:14 am PST #5775 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I only discovered recently that Opera was now free.
I think I paid for it once, and I've been using it since it fit on a floppy. It has very non-intrusive advertising (in fact, I need to upgrade this machine to the free version, but I'm so amused by the context-sensitive ads that I keep forgetting to).
I wouldn't say it has a bad rap -- more like no rap. And certainly no geek cred. But it's had moveable tabs and the like for forever.
Makes me sad, because I figure with everyone designing for IE, Firefox and maybe Safari, compatibility will force me to give it up. Don't wanna.
Gudanov - Nov 30, 2005 10:31:16 am PST #5776 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
I have a new Linux Distribution I really like. PCLinuxOS. I set it up on my secondary home computer and never had to use a command line to configure anything. Not sure about the KDE thing though.
Gris - Nov 30, 2005 10:32:03 am PST #5777 of 10003
Hey. New board.
For me, it's mostly just that I tried it once, long ago, and hated it. It wasn't really cross-platform, it still had ads on top, and it didn't display web pages very accurately. Oh, and I couldn't compile it from source, which was a big deal for me in my linux stage. I found Firefox at some point, was impressed, and have been sticking with it (mostly) ever since.
I actually use Camino on my Mac, as it uses native widgets. Does Opera? Maybe I'll try it out again. At the same time, I don't really need an integrated mail client - I use gmail exclusively these days - but I don't really mind having it. Also, I can't help but think that they'll either put ads back on top or start charging for it eventually, something I can be sure will never happen if I stick with the Firefox.