| By Xenono on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 12:45 pm: Edit |
I’ve been using Mozilla recently, mainly because of its tabbed browsing feature which I find very useful. One of the major drawbacks to Microsoft winning the browser wars is that there is now little or no innovation in the web browsing arena. They have little reason to develop new features since they now control 95% of the market. IE is now a dead product to them.
IE 7 in Longhorn will be the last version of IE. However, I just discovered Avant Browser, which is a plug-in to IE. It's got cool features like pop-up stoppers, Flash Animation Filter's, Additional Mouse Functions, Built-in Google Search Engine, etc. But the main reason I wanted it was for the tabbed browsing. I usually have many IE windows open at once. This allows me to have but one IE window, but several tabs along the bottom with the WebPages I need open.
Check it out at http://www.avantbrowser.com
| By Wombat88 on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 04:40 pm: Edit |
Tabbed browsing? Why bother? I use alt+tab to switch from browser window to browser window, very fast. With a tabbed browser you have to use the mouse -- too much slow! I'll have to look into that Avant Browser plug-in because, man, I hate flash animations.
| By Explorer8939 on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 08:49 pm: Edit |
A little O/T, I wonder if Microsoft will start charging for IE.
| By Wombat88 on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 05:15 pm: Edit |
Nope, it's now "part of Windows" according to MS. My bet is that they'll offer us a pro version (with pop-up blockers and other control features) at a premium price.
| By Superman on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 06:34 pm: Edit |
Well, no you don't have to use the mouse ... CTRL and Page UP and Page DOWN toggles through the tabs (at least in Mozilla). I think Opera gets credit for coming up with tabbed browsing though ... not Mozilla.
I've messed with the generic Mozilla browser & Ghostzilla Browser ... they do quite a few nice things. Firebird seems to be the one the hip kids play with, but I have not downloaded it.
IE is a great browser though ... yes it could be improved, but Mozilla is not there yet, especially speed wise. I imagine we will see many "improvements" in the next version of IE, including many of the very things that plugin does.
-Superman-