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Has anyone tried any of these new browsers coming out? Opera's been around for a while, I know. And I love Opera on my phone, but the Opera 11 desktop version is not pulling me in. It seems to take forever to load. Chrome is okay, if your system handles it--my nephew uses it on his computer and it's pretty cool. But I haven't found replacements for all my Firefox add-ons yet so I can't switch over. Rockmelt looked amazing but immediately asks for my Facebook account and I just want to browse on it before I start adding permissions to all my social sites. When you click cancel to the FB question it quits the app. What.
Firefox 4 promises, like always, to be faster than the previous version. And while I like the Chrome rip-off GUI, it took away the status bar and bookmarks bar. The status part of the status bar pops up when you're looking at a link, which is cool, but most of my add-ons resided on the status bar. There's an add-ons bar that you can use, but it's basically a status bar that your add-ons go on. So why take out the status bar if I need to add something that looks exactly like it just to use my add-ons? The bookmarks bar became a button, which is cool because it adds that much more space to the browser window but it's awkward when I go to drag a link to the bookmark bar and it isn't there. Also--and this is weird to change 4 versions in--but the contextual menu switched "open in new tab" and "open in new window" and I'm used to going to the second menu line to select "open in new tab" so I ended up having a bunch of Tumblr windows open by accident. Most of the time I use command+click, but it doesn't always work everywhere, like on Tumblr. Also, it's almost slower in processing what I asked it to do. And the actual loading of pages seems the same.
P.S. On my older computer I'm using Camino, but I keep Firefox open because I need my add-ons. :(
Firefox 4 promises, like always, to be faster than the previous version. And while I like the Chrome rip-off GUI, it took away the status bar and bookmarks bar. The status part of the status bar pops up when you're looking at a link, which is cool, but most of my add-ons resided on the status bar. There's an add-ons bar that you can use, but it's basically a status bar that your add-ons go on. So why take out the status bar if I need to add something that looks exactly like it just to use my add-ons? The bookmarks bar became a button, which is cool because it adds that much more space to the browser window but it's awkward when I go to drag a link to the bookmark bar and it isn't there. Also--and this is weird to change 4 versions in--but the contextual menu switched "open in new tab" and "open in new window" and I'm used to going to the second menu line to select "open in new tab" so I ended up having a bunch of Tumblr windows open by accident. Most of the time I use command+click, but it doesn't always work everywhere, like on Tumblr. Also, it's almost slower in processing what I asked it to do. And the actual loading of pages seems the same.
P.S. On my older computer I'm using Camino, but I keep Firefox open because I need my add-ons. :(
