Feeling like a fool: I really wish there were something that was as fast as Opera, and as popular as Firefox. At the moment I am using different browsers on different computers, and this also is confusing, since I miss, when using Firefox, Opera’s wonderful one-key shortcuts and the ability to move the “Back” button onto the tab bar, which saves, over a year, several miles of mouse track. [UPDATE: this is because I am too thick to read the help file clearly, as a commentator is too polite to point out.]
\nThen, when I am using Opera, I keep pushing the mouse up to a tab and waiting for it to take focus without clicking, And waiting.<\/p>\n\n
What threw these things into perspective was a note in the relentlessly boosterish Opera blog<\/a> that according to Netcraft, Opera usage had risen by 34% this year !!!!<\/span> until the progam now has one per cent<\/em> <\/span> of the installed base. So I don’t suppose that the interoperability thing is going to get better any time soon. Designers won’t test in Opera; the makers of add-ons and intelligent dustbins won’t fix their software to work with it. Soon we’ll be unable even to sneer at Safari users.<\/p>\n\n What makes this doubly frustrating is that Opera had all the good ideas ages before everyone else. Even its mail program, had it been properly developed, would have stayed two years ahead of Gmail and ten years ahead of the rest of the competition. But it looks as if all the effort that might have gone there has gone into the mobile phone browser<\/a> instead, which is, I admit enormously slick, but pretty pointless so long as you have to enter text from a mobile keypad.<\/p>\n\n On the other hand, if I were Japanese, I would be planning to write a novel<\/a> on the keyboard of my phone.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feeling like a fool: I really wish there were something that was as fast as Opera, and as popular as Firefox. At the moment I am using different browsers on different computers, and this also is confusing, since I miss, … Continue reading