Too many complaints! - macnerd10

Very good review. I can also add that Opera seemed to be the least concerned among 5 browsers that I tested about the latest andf quite miserable update to QuickTime 7.2. Most pages were rendered correctly without any tweaking.
What I cannot master in it is the back button. Very often it gets dimmed and I can no longer go back like in any other browser. Need to go to history, which also does not have a direct access unlike others. This keeps me from making it my default browser.
Alex

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Thursday, July 19 2007 @ 05:36 PM PDT

Too many complaints! - sheepguy42

Internet Explorer is not a Mac browser. Microsoft stopped updating it for us back at v. 5.2 or so. So the first third of your essay on why you love Opera has no relevance in the Mac part of this site.

Two great browsers, the most popular two on the Mac AFAIK, have most if not all of the features you discuss at great length. Tabbed browsing? Safari: check. Firefox: check.

Saving sessions I believe was recently added to Firefox's feature list. If not, I know several extensions (utilizing that browsers excellent add-on system) that bring that feature seamlessly into play.

Mouse Gestures are also available as an extension for Firefox. Beyond that, there is a shareware app that gives system-wide mouse gestures for OS X users, as well as another that specifically targets Safari. I will grant you that having that feature for free in Safari would be nice.

"Skins" as a feature is another name for Firefox's "themes" feature. Beyond that, many clever people have figured out how to "skin" Safari and some even have easily installable packages to make it simple to customize Apple's browser. I don't generally mess with these; I find I like Safari's default appearance. Its subdued nature doesn't distract from the content of sites I visit.

Pop-up blocker? Safari and Firefox both have this feature. Heck, even IE on Windows has it now. A password manager? While Firefox has its own, and numerous extensions provide alternatives, both Firefox and Safari can use OS X's system wide password manager, which generally renders this a useless feature when contained in one app. A download manager? Please, not only do both Firefox and Safari have this, they have the option of using optimized 3rd party ones. All this and more ad-free without a penny spent.

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Thursday, July 19 2007 @ 06:11 PM PDT