I was very interested to read that Opera has introduced something that I have already seen as a Firefox extension, but with a telephonic twist it seems.
Source: googlesystem.blogspot.com
Quite similar in appearance to the Showcase extension you can download from Firefox.
At present I am using Firefox, Opera and IE 6.something (really can't be bothered with M$oft downloads until I know they've fixed at least some of the bugs). They all seem to render pages in a slightly different way. Opera's built in email client and RSS reader is fantastic, but, I want to use googlemail and it doesn't like the personalised homepage for some reason, so I tried IE for a while (again), got bored and annoyed with it and its lack of functionality and so tried Firefox for the first time. Especially after reading an article on Lifehack.org about what that guy calls 'The Firefox OS' and the now redundant Windoze, Linux or OS X you have installed. As someone who writes, Google Documents is a great tool to be able to log into and access all my stuff without carrying my laptop/PDA/USB stick etc, around with me all the time, or rather, remembering to.... Netvibes.com is also good at keeping all ones 'stuff' on one webpage but doesn't have the functionality of the document system I like so much at Google. It does have a great email module(s) though. Go look at them. Anyway - try them all and decide at your leisure. A browser should be like wallpaper, real smile-making at first but after a while, you don't even notice it.
The latest version Opera (a free browser from Norway) brings the speed dial from your phone to your browser. You can configure a start page with nine boxes where you can add frequently visited sites. The page shows up everytime you open a new tab, but the sites added to the start page can be opened by simply clicking on Ctrl-[number from 1 to 9].
Opera shows real-time thumbnails of the selected pages and lets you reload them at a custom interval so it's a cool way to monitor changes. There's also a link to Opera developer tools,
a list of bookmarklets that add some of the best features from
Firefox's DOM Inspector and the most popular extension for developers: Web Developer Toolbar.
You can inspect, edit or remove DOM nodes; view, edit or disable
stylesheets; view HTTP headers and cookies. It looks pretty impressive
for a JavaScript bookmarklet.
Opera finally becomes a normal
browser: if you enter a query in the address bar (something that's not
an URL or a single word), Opera performs a search.
Source: googlesystem.blogspot.com
At present I am using Firefox, Opera and IE 6.something (really can't be bothered with M$oft downloads until I know they've fixed at least some of the bugs). They all seem to render pages in a slightly different way. Opera's built in email client and RSS reader is fantastic, but, I want to use googlemail and it doesn't like the personalised homepage for some reason, so I tried IE for a while (again), got bored and annoyed with it and its lack of functionality and so tried Firefox for the first time. Especially after reading an article on Lifehack.org about what that guy calls 'The Firefox OS' and the now redundant Windoze, Linux or OS X you have installed. As someone who writes, Google Documents is a great tool to be able to log into and access all my stuff without carrying my laptop/PDA/USB stick etc, around with me all the time, or rather, remembering to.... Netvibes.com is also good at keeping all ones 'stuff' on one webpage but doesn't have the functionality of the document system I like so much at Google. It does have a great email module(s) though. Go look at them. Anyway - try them all and decide at your leisure. A browser should be like wallpaper, real smile-making at first but after a while, you don't even notice it.
Tags: Homepages | sites | Shows | edit | developer | Browser | Technology | opera | firefox | fingertips
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment