[Neuromancer]

Just took a quick peruse, on Move media player (the one fox.com uses and ABC for that matter) and although I found a bug related to it in the Opera community about it not painting when window resizing, I did not see an install for it (will have to be a forced install since Move does not support it natively.. should not be hard though since it works on Fx 2 and 3 so it obviously is not using ActiveX controls). Will look into it more when I get back home tomorrow.

EDIT: Oh not to pick nits with Firefox users, but it is Firefox not FireFox. The correct abbreviation for Firefox is Fx not FF. If it was Fire Fox than FF would be correct but Mozilla themselves even state it is Fx. Not to be confused with FX with is not an abbreviation at all but a phonetic shortening of the word effects.

[hellcamino]

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

EDIT: Oh not to pick nits with Firefox users, but it is Firefox not FireFox. The correct abbreviation for Firefox is Fx not FF. If it was Fire Fox than FF would be correct but Mozilla themselves even state it is Fx. Not to be confused with FX with is not an abbreviation at all but a phonetic shortening of the word effects.

Just to keep from confusing the majority of users as I have never seen Firefox abreviated as Fx, I will continue to abreviate it as ff or even FF. As for a manula install of plugins for the Move player, gl with that one as I tried it and it would work for a while and then tweak out. It was however quite easy to install ff and I even had plenty of hdd space for it too!

[Neuromancer]

Yeah Frank, one of the biggest problems with Opera is, if it (3rd party software) does not support actual web standards, it is up to the supplier of software to support all standards...

Move supports IE (did not specify which IIRC) and Firefox 2&3.

As for the correction of FF/Fx.. I was not directing it at you but everyone, hell even the title of this thread (Being FireFox and hence the FF confusion) Opera 10's in-line spell checker is telling me it is wrong. (uploading a pic so you can see)


But for others that may question my assumption of calling Firefox FF is this simple google search

how is firefox abbreviated (click me)

(when you click the link it is FAQ question number 8. Would have linked directly to new site, but did not see FAQ on the homepage sorry. (yup I am a lazy tonight)


(heh heh I never used it before, but ctrl+z the windows undo edit, works in forum posts *duh I know... but removing those functions could really help performance in benching (side note toself))

[hellcamino]

http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8

That has some hilarious posts in some of the votes and what not, despite the nerd vote the common user still uses ff as an abreviation for Firefox and some of those guys get super pissed about it LOL!!! I would have thought Opera to be more likely to draw this type of attention as it's far less mainstream than Firefox.

[Shahryar_NEO]

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

Opera 10 beta user.

Now that it has an inline spell checker, I have no reason to use FF at all.

(Which is good, I cant see DLing 3rd party extensions for stuff a browser should do automatically anyway)

Only flaw I see in it now, is it could use a more advanced cookie manager.

why opera ? firefox is more than a browser . what do you love in opera that you didn't seen in firefox ? inline spell checker , many extensions brought you anything you like and the most important one , OpenSource !

firefox got 96/100 in acid3 but really mozilla don't care about acid tests because as we see today many most of the websites have more standard view in firefox than opera ( even with Mask as firefox or ... in Opera ) .

features and again features = extensions !

btw , the correct abbreviation is FX but FF is more useful among peoples .

[Shahryar_NEO]

Originally Posted by hellcamino

Opera is where it's at! The quick dial function along with tabbed browsing that actually opens your quick dial and a search engine unlike ff that just opens a blank page after right clicking the address bar and selecting open new tab... I have gotten to really like Opera the more I use it, the wand is nice for being able to quickly enter passwords and user names. I do have ff installed as well as IE8 on my laptop as Opera still isn't supported by fox.net for watching tv shows and some lame backwards sites just won't work with ANYTHING other than IE.

I think about speed dial you can use speed dial extension for firefox :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810

and see this please :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12169

most of the good opera things can be in firefox with extensions .

[hellcamino]

Originally Posted by Shahryar_NEO

most of the good opera things can be in firefox with extensions .

Why screw around making a browser that isn't Opera as much like Opera as possible when you can just use Opera?

On a side note I was definitely wrong in my thinking that Opera would be more likely to be the nerd 's browser of choice...lmao

[crio]

There is only one browser...FIREFOX.....Faster-Safer-Better

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by crio

There is only one browser...FIREFOX.....Faster-Safer-Better

In a comparison vs IE the first two are probably true. The third is entirely speculative.

I agree Frank that Opera would seem to be the nerds choice, (because of the numbers of features it has that only a developer or severely retarded person would even want to play around with like changing the appearance of web pages, editing cookies, full out network controls etc) However it is also so much simpler than other browser alternatives, since it really does everything any other browser can do, without needing 3rd party add-ons.

So in effect, it really should be the layman's browser of choice, since it is an install and forget about it.

[tanka12345]

FireFox Simply the best!

Who uses IE these days?