Internet browser poll

[scracha]

Mouse gestures and voice activated bowsing is fun too

Cool, so theoretically one could surf porn sites with umm..both hands off the keyboard?

[scracha]

fangled interblag thing, why i remember when i had to dial up to uni via a 13,6 modem and all I got was a BBS and i was happy with that!, and top it off i could dial up a mates BBS ( he had like 5 modems, so i could chat with people or play txt based D&D.

Lol, I used to run my own sad little BBS with a couple of US robotics 14.4 HST modems. No wonder I had few mates at school.

I can't be the only one who thinks "fucktards" when the Auckland University of Technology advert appears on the gogglebox. If AUT can't differentiate between Internet and World Wide Web then it can't be the best academic institution.

[NordieBoy]

Cool, so theoretically one could surf porn sites with umm..both hands off the keyboard?

Yep.
tools-prefs-advanced-voicey thing...

[ambler]

imo Opera blows everything else out of the water - but I have not checked FF recently, I hear it is pretty good too. IE7 is the closest thing to a pleasant-to-use browser yet from the microsoft camp, but I did not get to to use it much because it messed up a bunch of other programs and I had to roll back to IE6.
Why is Opera great?

*Web pages are shown under tabs instead of separate windows.
Okay this is is supposed to be a pretty dated feature these days but I thought I would mention it because some other major browsers still require you to have a gazillion windows on the taskbar.

*Tabs can be switched between with Ctrl-tab. You can also select tabs by holding down the right mouse button and scrolling the mousewheel.

*You can reopen closed tabs with 'undo'.

*Tabs are remembered after abnormal termination. If your PC gets shutoff abnormally or the Opera process is killed, next time you start Opera you have the option to continue from last time, with all the tabs you had open before.

*You can save tabs in a 'session'. I used this recently when comparing hotel prices - it took a while to find the pages of all the hotels to do comparisons with, so I didn't want to do it all over again when I wanted to check the hotel prices again. It's also good if you have a bunch of pages that you check regularly (ie. hotmail, yahoo, gmail, news, exchange rate, online auctions etc) and you want to check them all at once, just save a session with all those pages open.

*You can open a webpage in the background (in a new tab) without leaving the current page with the middle mouse button. This is great for those those times when the current page has a list of links to pages that you want to look at, but you don' t want to have to open them, then come back to the current page, then click the next one... (eg. in IE: Right-click -> Open in new window -> Alt-tab back to original window -> Find next link -> etc etc)

*The 'transfers' feature stores a list of files you have previously downloaded. This is great for when you download something and forget where you put it, or where you downloaded it from.

*Opera has 'gestures'. These are where you click the right mouse button and move the mouse a little in a certain direction. For example clicking the right mouse button and moving it left will return to the previous page. Here are some common gestures (this is not the entire list):

-Left Go to previous page
-Right Go to next page, or intelligently guess next page.
Intelligently means for example, if you are looking at results 10-20 of a search on Google and you use the 'right' gesture, Opera will determine from the url that the next page will be results 20-30. This is great for those pages with porn thumbnails, and the images are numbered like boobies001.jpg, boobies002.jpg etc. In this case you can flip through the images without have to go back to the thumbnail page and select them individually.
-Down Open a new tab. If the mouse was over a link, that link will be opened in the new tab.
-Down then right Close current tab

In addition, gestures and mouse actions can be customized to your liking.

*The 'notes' feature. This is a list of text notes, along with the address of the webpage they were copied from. Kind of like a bookmark, but with a blurb from the page so you can tell what it was for.

*The 'links' feature. This is a list summarizing only the links available on the current page. Handy for those badly designed pages where links are the same color as normal text, or very large pages with only a few links. The 'links' list will automatically refresh itself when you move to a new page, unless you 'lock' it. When it's locked, it feels very similar to the 'folders' area of windows file explorer, giving you access to the links from a previous page while surfing onto a different page.

*The find dialog stays floating above the page after you have searched, and 'F3' (find again) works as expected. This is very handy when searching for the same text on different tabs. Also, the first find will highlight all occurences of the word on the page, so usually you don't even need to keep pushing F3 at all.

*Search engine integration. A search toolbar is available by default. This is the similar to the google toolbar, but can be set to use other search engines as well. Also, you can select some text in a webpage, then right-click on it to do a Google (or other) search with that text.

*URL guessing. For example, if you simply type "isohunt" into the address, Opera will try some common combinations of 'www.', '.net', '.com' etc to try and find the site you intended to view.

*Those annoying popups are blocked by default. A message will be displayed briefly which you can click on if you do actually want to open the popup.

*Paste-and-go to skip having to press enter after pasting url or search terms. Yes, it's only a little thing but very handy.

*Skins. I never use them, but it's nice to have the option.

*When you view the source of a webpage, there is an 'Apply changes' button which will reload the page with the changes you made, allowing for quick and easy circumvention of javascript check etc., or a great way to check styles and scripts when you are making websites.

Goddamit. I just found this page: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/features/

[idleidolidyll]

I use firefox, opera, mozila, netscape etc
at one point i had about 20 different browsers and used em all EXCEPT the 800lb gorilla (IE).

Your poll gives no option for multiples.

IE and Netscape are S........L.......O........W.............!