19th December 2003, 5:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 19th December 2003, 5:46 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Does it have the list of sites exempted from the pop-up blocker? A look as nice and integrated as Netscape's? The lists of sites you let put cookies on your system or block from putting cookies on your system?
You don't see how tabbed browsing is good... uh, amazing... unless you're one of those strange people who actually like to have the taskbar on the screen all the time? What an awful waste of screen real estate... autohide is the only way to go. Having it onscreen takes up a big block of the screen. And with autohide you have to go down, make it appear, and find the page you want... but when like usual you're running multiple webpages at once you've got to look through the running programs and remember which are webpage windows and which are programs, etc, and deal with the fact that you've got a limited amount of space due to the systray and start menu, etc... having the webpages on a bar on the screen all the time (integrated into the interface) is a huge timesaver and memory saver (running one program instance instead of five...) and just plain improves ease of use...
Oh yeah, one important point. Center-click opening of links into new tabs. If it had tabs but you had to open things into them the same way as you open links into new windows in IE -- that is, by right-clicking and selecting 'open into new window', tabs would be a fraction of the use that they are. A small fraction. It'd just be a webpages-only taskbar and system-resources-saver.
But with the center-click-into-new-tab... totally changes the way I use webpages, actually. Before, I'd open Tendo City, open the forum, go to the first one... MAYBE open two windows, but often not since having like ten windows open in the taskbar is a real pain... and slowly go through to each next new post after I write the one I'm on. With center-click I do as I've explained before -- open each forum with new posts into a tab, then open each thread with new posts into a tab. it often gets to fifteen tabs, easy... I can't imagine how horrible having to deal with that many things on the taskbar that often would be... but with the tabs it centralizes it and makes it all easy to use. And easy to open windows into a new screen, which is a VERY useful ability.
You don't see how tabbed browsing is good... uh, amazing... unless you're one of those strange people who actually like to have the taskbar on the screen all the time? What an awful waste of screen real estate... autohide is the only way to go. Having it onscreen takes up a big block of the screen. And with autohide you have to go down, make it appear, and find the page you want... but when like usual you're running multiple webpages at once you've got to look through the running programs and remember which are webpage windows and which are programs, etc, and deal with the fact that you've got a limited amount of space due to the systray and start menu, etc... having the webpages on a bar on the screen all the time (integrated into the interface) is a huge timesaver and memory saver (running one program instance instead of five...) and just plain improves ease of use...
Oh yeah, one important point. Center-click opening of links into new tabs. If it had tabs but you had to open things into them the same way as you open links into new windows in IE -- that is, by right-clicking and selecting 'open into new window', tabs would be a fraction of the use that they are. A small fraction. It'd just be a webpages-only taskbar and system-resources-saver.
But with the center-click-into-new-tab... totally changes the way I use webpages, actually. Before, I'd open Tendo City, open the forum, go to the first one... MAYBE open two windows, but often not since having like ten windows open in the taskbar is a real pain... and slowly go through to each next new post after I write the one I'm on. With center-click I do as I've explained before -- open each forum with new posts into a tab, then open each thread with new posts into a tab. it often gets to fifteen tabs, easy... I can't imagine how horrible having to deal with that many things on the taskbar that often would be... but with the tabs it centralizes it and makes it all easy to use. And easy to open windows into a new screen, which is a VERY useful ability.
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