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#31 id:11724 Posted Sep 4, 2008, 5:42 pm
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I use gmail myself, but doesn't hotmail actually offer unlimited space nowadays? Not that gmail isn't more or less unlimited itself. While technically it isn't unlimited I don't think I'll ever fill my gmail account seeing as I am sitting at: "You are currently using 678 MB (9%) of your 7101 MB." on a gmail account I have used since August of 2005.
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#33 id:11730 Posted Sep 4, 2008, 11:59 pm
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Fizban said:Except Google's unstable version is actually pretty stable.
The Firefox trunk code was rock solid stable for me 9 months before the beta releases were up. Despite the reports of crippling bugs in what is clearly labeled as testing code, I ran FF3 for a very long time without incident and only had things crash when Flash or Javascript got out of hand. I do tend to stay away from the trunk splits that happen shortly after a major release since lots and lots of unproven code gets dumped in at that point.
Fizban said:That's sad. Opera is a 'fantastic' browser, yet it has so little market-share that Google has already passed it.
Opera is fantastic on a technical level. Fast, standards compliant. Where they fail is the UI. I mean, ugh. That's got to be the worst default UI I've ever seen. Yes, you can skin it, but first impressions count. Opera only sees use when I test web code or need to download a torrent.
I'm hardly surprised to see Chrome pass Opera. Chrome had a ton of media exposure on launch day and Google got the word out pretty fast and everyone is curious. It still has lots of polishing to do, but they started off pretty well.
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#35 id:11734 Posted Sep 5, 2008, 12:10 am
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Well, as the API opens (I didn't see any docs on it, or anywhere to grab the source just yet) and the beta period comes to a close, My money is on Chrome becoming a major contender in the browser world. It's honestly more like a little mini-OS designed for running on the Web then a browser, and as people become accustomed to it, and can start producing extensions for it, I see it being one of the heavy-weights of browsers.
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#36 id:11735 Posted Sep 5, 2008, 12:26 am
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Am I the only one missing the middle mouse button, or am I missing a setting somewhere?
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#37 id:11736 Posted Sep 5, 2008, 12:32 am
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Mabus said:Am I the only one missing the middle mouse button, or am I missing a setting somewhere?
My middle mouse button worked just fine with Chrome.
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#39 id:11738 Posted Sep 5, 2008, 12:53 am
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Mabus said:Am I the only one missing the middle mouse button, or am I missing a setting somewhere?
Nope, it doesn't work for me either, it was one of my complaints on page 1. Safari doesn't enable the feature either for some reason.
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#40 id:11739 Posted Sep 5, 2008, 1:01 am
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Maybe I'm missing something. Is the middle mouse button supposed to be doing more than being used for clicking on a link to open it in a new tab?
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#41 id:11740 Posted Sep 5, 2008, 1:52 am
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In FF and Opera you can hold it down and scroll at the same time to scroll 'fast'.
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#42 id:11749 Posted Sep 5, 2008, 3:13 pm
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DavidHaley said:I actually don't like Gmail much at all, due to not having any kind of hierarchical organization. Not to mention that the 'new interface' has been causing FF2 to hang...
That said, it is better than the other free mail providers (it's not a client) I've used.
Solution.. use a POP3 or IMAP program to access your email. Both protocols are free to use. Then you still have the massive archive you can access online when needed, as well as access it without need to login to the web frontend.
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#44 id:11753 Posted Sep 5, 2008, 4:54 pm
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Samson said:Opera is fantastic on a technical level. Fast, standards compliant. Where they fail is the UI. I mean, ugh. That's got to be the worst default UI I've ever seen. Yes, you can skin it, but first impressions count.
Are you speaking of the current Opera UI, or prior versions? If the latter, you may want to give the newer version a try. If the former, then to each their own I suppose. 
Samson said:Opera only sees use when I test web code or need to download a torrent.
I haven't used Opera's built-in torrent client in a while, due to a number of issues including that I'm a die-hard Azureus fan (except for their name change to Vuze - I liked Azureus better). I take it by your comment that you're not a Vuze/Azureus user, then?
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