10th May 2005, 10:45 PM
Oh, a note. I was using "Avant Browser" for a while, but it was pretty glitchy. Basically as soon as I got SP2 (with the pop-up blocker, the main reason I got AB) I just ditched the thing. The only other thing it even had as a feature was the whole tabbed browsing thing. Used it for a while, and yeah, I suppose it has it's uses, but in the end I still prefer alt-tab. With practice, keyboard shortcuts become second nature, and it's just much faster. The only real advantage I ever got from it was being able to see exactly which tabs I already had open. Well, I could just make my Windows Task Bar not collapse, then I'd have that too. Well, it takes up screen space that way, but wait, so does that bar. MDI just doesn't really seem all that useful to me when net surfing... All in all, since the net is designed first and foremost with the most widely used browser in mind, well, I guess that's what I'll be using. As of yet I have not had a single page not display correctly. Another key thing is I never install plugins unless I know exactly what I'm getting into. Quicktime is ENOUGH, and even then every single time I view a quicktime file I have to go into the registry and delete the entry that makes some sort of "quicklaunch buddy" app start when my computer start... Ugh...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)