A decade with Netscape. I’ve been wavering between IE, Opera and Mozilla over the last few months, and have come a full circle. IE: Default browser. Works with BCG’s intranet. Opera: Great offline browsing. Fast downloading. Tabbed browsing. Mouse gestures. Mozilla: Powerful plugins. IE: A9 toolbar. Fantastic way of searching. IE again: Google desktop. Solves all offline browsing problems I had.
MSN’s attempt to foil Opera. via andersja
101 things you can do in Mozilla and not IE. But apart from 1. Tabbed browsing and 2. Popup blocking, I don’t quite use the other features. Mozilla (and Opera) still need some catching up to do. via New Architect
Opera works well with mobile phones. I don’t understand how, personally, but Opera has revamped its site focusing on smartphones, and seems to have a good technology here.
Opera has security holes as well.
Opera 6 Beta is out.
Microsoft first tries to block MSN access to non-IE browsers, and then surrenders. I still can’t access their photos section through Opera.
Online classics: video-on-demand for operas, plays, and dance. Video is definitely in these days, with NASA, CNN and a whole lot of others.
There’s a stall that sells theatre tickets for half price at Leicester Square, so I went there in the morning. It opened only at 12 noon, so rather than waiting, I just bought tickets for the balcony. 15.50 pounds didn’t seem to much. The musical was “The Phantom of the Opera”, running at Her Majesty’s Theatre. There were 6 of us, and we went to the show. That was when I realized why the tickets were so cheap. They were on the second row of the third floor. Which meant that we had to crane our necks to see anything. What made it worse was that the lady in front of me refused to sit still. But after a while, I got used to it. ...