naxos

[quote name='clavicle' date='Feb 26 2005, 07:00 PM']Opera provides all things which Mozilla has now been offering.  Look at the size of installation file (without java), mozilla is 7zipped but still you have to add the options for tabs, mouse gestures etc.  Opera is simply great. [right][post="279915"][/post][/right][/quote] I agree on you that you have to add support to mouse gestures in Firefox, but you don't have to add support for tabbed browsing. I use the keyboard mostly anyways. Recently I have been using Netscape 8 Beta along with opera recently because it offers the chance to use both IE and Mozilla rendering engines in one app... I guess Netscape has given up making their own browser. My only complaint is that it doesn't support Firefox themes and extensions. The dual rendering engines thing is useful to web developers who want to make sure their web site looks the same in both Mozila and IE without having multiple windows open, also because there are few other places where you can get tabbed IE browsing. I wouldn't call myself a Firefox fanboy but still all of my favorite browsers have come from the Mozilla foundation. I agree that Opera is really great and all that, and I often use it, but my only complaints are A: you have to pay for it, and if you don't there are ads and B: It's not all that custumizable (spelling?). Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've seen Opera 7 and Opera 8 have no other ways of custimization except for themes and preferences for mail and such. On the other hand, Firefox has a lot (hundreds?) of extensions available, such as a built in HTML validator. I went ahead and took a screenshot and labeled it as good as I could with MS Paint. See it at [url="http://ubermouse.net/images/screenshots/shot3.jpg"]http://ubermouse.net/images/screenshots/shot3.jpg[/url]. IE (1 - 6) is horrible because of a number of reasons: 1. Doesn't support PNG transparency 2. Doesn't support CSS2 (which by the way came out in 1998, all other browsers fully support it) 3. Support of Active X controls (semi-fixed in SP2) 4. Supports weird CSS things, like filters... (why the hell do they come out with their own standards???) 5. Seems to be slow on most computers compared to other browsers 6. Again: outdated, does not follow W3C standards as much as they should, full of security holes (or should I call them canyons?) Ranked from most favorite to least favorite, browsers would be: Firefox Opera Netscape 8 Beta IE doesn't deserve to be on this list