13th May 2010, 1:32 AM
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/...secure.ars
Aside from a long-wanted ability to customize settings quickly on a per-site basis (above all, I really want to be able to have a setup where Flash is disabled unless I enable it, and for it's being enabled to be remembered automatically on a per-site basis), copying Chrome's placing of tabs on the title bar is a nice space saver (though I don't want it too simplified, that status bar is something I like having).
The big copy I like to see is MS's big push towards hardware accelerated graphics. Honestly I'm shocked it took until now for them to actually DO this, but with MS making the big change, it's good to see all the others are following a very healthy trend (it's fair, MS has been copying everyone else for years).
Since I don't know for sure when I'll be making the big upgrade to Windows 7, I can safely say that as IE9 won't be made available for XP, I'm probably going to be making a big switch to some other browser. It'll likely be either Chrome or Firefox, whichever I like better when one of them implements hardware acceleration. I don't really care for Opera at all (my main use of it is through the Wii every now and then, and that plus my very limited trial of the PC version pretty much sealed up any interest I might have for that awkard interface), and Safari (which suffers from the standard problem of all Apple software ported to PC, Apple seems dead-set on "demonstrating" PC inferiority by intentionally making their software SUCK in their Windows form, and by suck I mean suck resources and bloat down the startup with all their own little bits of nonsense I have to root out and disable. Annoying, and not a good way to get me to use Apple products. I hate Quicktime in particular because there is NO way to disable the quicktime "quick loader" save setting up a script to clean up the startup registry it inserts EVERY TIME you run the application.
Aside from a long-wanted ability to customize settings quickly on a per-site basis (above all, I really want to be able to have a setup where Flash is disabled unless I enable it, and for it's being enabled to be remembered automatically on a per-site basis), copying Chrome's placing of tabs on the title bar is a nice space saver (though I don't want it too simplified, that status bar is something I like having).
The big copy I like to see is MS's big push towards hardware accelerated graphics. Honestly I'm shocked it took until now for them to actually DO this, but with MS making the big change, it's good to see all the others are following a very healthy trend (it's fair, MS has been copying everyone else for years).
Since I don't know for sure when I'll be making the big upgrade to Windows 7, I can safely say that as IE9 won't be made available for XP, I'm probably going to be making a big switch to some other browser. It'll likely be either Chrome or Firefox, whichever I like better when one of them implements hardware acceleration. I don't really care for Opera at all (my main use of it is through the Wii every now and then, and that plus my very limited trial of the PC version pretty much sealed up any interest I might have for that awkard interface), and Safari (which suffers from the standard problem of all Apple software ported to PC, Apple seems dead-set on "demonstrating" PC inferiority by intentionally making their software SUCK in their Windows form, and by suck I mean suck resources and bloat down the startup with all their own little bits of nonsense I have to root out and disable. Annoying, and not a good way to get me to use Apple products. I hate Quicktime in particular because there is NO way to disable the quicktime "quick loader" save setting up a script to clean up the startup registry it inserts EVERY TIME you run the application.