L233 said:
Opera.
What pisses me off about Firefox is the complete lack of built-in customizability. I want to arrange the position of the UI elements to fit my needs. With Firefox I cannot even move the tab bar to the bottom of the browser window.
Oh, sure, I could spend a few hours tracking down some extensions and plugins to provide the basic functionality I need but frankly, I don't wanna. I don't want to wade through hundreds of extensions in various stages of developement with feature descriptions that often leave me puzzled about what eactly the thing is supposed to do. I don't want to worry whether my extensions will still be compatible with the next version of the browser software and so on....
All I want is some basic built-in functionality and UI custzomizability - hardly something that makes a browser bloated. Opera proves that.
Opera is far superior to Firefox when it comes to usability and it's getting better with every new major version. It also "feels" so much better than Firefox. Snappier, slicker, more responsive, more polished.
Compatibility isn't much of an issue, Opera works on pretty much all pages I visit and in the very, very rare cases in which Opera doesn't work it doesn't kill me to fire up IE for a few minutes.
The ad-banner in the free version is so unintrusive (it doesn't blink or anything) that you completely forget that it's there after a short time. I eventually bought a lincense, not because I wanted to get rid of the banner (which didn't bother me at all) but because I wanted to support this great piece of software.
I feel kinda sorry for the Opera developers. They have been the only true innovators on the browser market for many years and every single of their innovations is being ripped off by the Firefox team and their extension goons.
Hours? Try seconds
FF has basic functionality built in, perhaps you want mouse gestures built in?
How could it be snappier than FF, nothing slows down FF, cept when you use all your memory up when viewing extremely image heavy pages.
The ad banner IS instrusive, why would anyone want to stare at an ad while they browse? FF is by far the best FREE browser out there, and I dont even like the pay version of opera because it's missing the uber extentions FF has, it may not have all the built in functionality you want, but atleast if you can think of something it doesn't have, you can find an extention in seconds.
Can't say that about opera can we?
If they have a good adblocker, it would be alot better, because you seriously can't come across many pages without ads.
You may think "whats the big deal, just a small ad", it is extremely distracting to have some ad on a page, even more so when you know with a FREE browser you could easily block it.
The optimal browsing solution should be FF for browsing regular pages, and opera for browsing image heavy pages.
Btw innovation is great and all, but ultimaty you'd be a fool to think a good idea isn't going to be copied- look at the computer industy.
innovation doesn't have much of a reward, sure you had the idea, but another company is just going to steal your idea.
