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5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Opera
Time for some more critics and as I promised, it’s “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Opera”. You can check my “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Internet Explorer” here. And here we go…
1. No intergrated spell check. So you accidentally can type with some erors (?).
2. No “smart” auto update.
3. Where’s auto-complete when filling various forms? Few fields is not enough. I wish to have this, even Internet Explorer has that.
4. Can’t remove “Widgets” from menu as well as delete multiple wands. I like clean browser.
5. RSS news placed in the “mail” folder. I was making a backup of all my files but haven’t made that “mail” folder backup as I wasn’t using mail. Seems RSS news items were placed exactly there so I lost all of them.
Tomorrow you will see “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Firefox” post.
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5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Internet Explorer
It’s time for some critics I guess. There are more than just a 5 reasons of course. But thought to start something like “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like…” topic. Who knows, maybe it can help web browsers developers (or maybe not).
1. It’s slow.
2. Lot’s of bugs (insecure).
3. Slow development.
4. Only basic features.
5. It doesn’t support web standards.
Tomorrow I will be posting “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Opera”, then “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Firefox” and so on.
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FavBrowser.com v2
Now you’ll probably think: Oh no, one more topic about FavBrowser.com. Why don’t you guys post about web browsers anymore?
I have some information so would like to share with everyone of you.
First of all, thanks to everyone who is spreading word, linking to FavBrowser.com from their sites and just reading this blog. Thank You.
This week I was playing a bit with the logo but that’s not enough, right? I am thinking about more changes. So here are some of them:
- New web design. I will try to make it look bit more like a portal. Not really sure when I will finish it. But I don’t want to design this web page just for myself, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know them.
- More news. From now I will be posting not just about big guys like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Opera.
- Different posts style. I was just writing about new web browsers releases, included change log and that’s all. I will try to give those posts more “pashion” so every web browser fan would enjoy reading it much more.
Also some minor changes (added already) like e-mail subscriptions and “Hot Topics”.
Want anything else? Feel free to offer.
Pingdom Gives Away $120 000 In Free Accounts
Mr. Uptime Firefox plug-in is celebrating it’s 1 year anniversary, congratulations. For this reason Pingdom.com is giving away $120 000 in free accounts (1000 accounts total worth $120 each) so hurry up if you are interested. For Firefox users only, nice promo.
Why Pingdom?
Your website was probably down last month. Email servers, FTP servers, firewalls, and a multitude of other services can also perform poorly or even stop responding entirely.
The question is, are you aware of it? Do you know when it happens? Do you know for how long? This is where Pingdom comes in.
We can monitor all aspects of your website and other infrastructure for you and instantly let you know when anything goes wrong. Not only that, Pingdom will also collect a great deal valuable and useful statistics for you.
Q: Why do I need Mr Uptime?
A: On a daily basis millions of Internet users encounter websites that don’t work as intended. In most cases you as a user just want to visit a website to get information but can’t because of various kinds of issues. It could be a problem on your end, with the website, or somewhere in between. Mr Uptime will help you by informing you when the website is working correctly for you again.
Browser Of The Month – What Should It Have?
Sooner or later we will have new web browser release. Probably Firefox 3, Safari 3 and Opera 9.5, those and Internet Explorer 7 will be reviewed so we could pick our “Browser of the Month”.
But before reviewing, let me ask: What should that “Browser of the Month” have?
I want to use as many factors as possible in the upcoming review. If you have any, please post them in comments. Till now I will post just some obvious ones.
Performance, security, low resources usage, not overloaded user interface, ease of use, inline spell check (I think that’s important) and easy updating.
FavBrowser.com Make Over
No big changes. Just thought that logo should tell something more. So instead of pure glassy blue text effect also “integrated” web browsers logos.
F – Firefox
O – Opera
S – Safari
E – Internet Explorer
Press F5 if you don’t see new logo.
Hope you like it.
An Interview With Opera’s CEO, Jon von Tetzchner
The Register recently published an interview with Jon von Tetzchner and there are some very interesting questions and answers as well.
Andrew Brown, a big fan of Opera, wrote that he chose to move to FireFox because it was more compatible with new websites, partly citing Flickr compatibility. Do you feel you’re falling behind?
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It’s a chicken and egg situation, which means we need to get more users.
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I don’t want to agree with that. It’s not all about users. Of course, big market share helps a lot but let’s see the following situation:
Let’s say 1000 potential users decides to download Opera and surf their favorite sites, some of them found them incompatible with Opera. What they do? They are switching back. So you get more users for a week or so but then lose some of them due incompatibility with their favorite sites. Of course, market share still grows, but very slowly. As posted in 2007 July Browsers Market Share Results, Opera lost 0.02% of their market share that time. I tend to believe that decrease was not due the fact that users didn’t like Opera’s interface or features, but due incompatibility.
Opera can’t grow so fast due incompatibility with some sites.
Incompatible sites are incompatible due low Opera’s market share.
Paradox?
If Opera would get 20% of the market share in one night, this would help for sure. But that won’t happen.
So it’s up to Opera Software.
Another interesting answer was:
We just try to focus on our side. We’ve always focused on a somewhat richer interface. We’ve had a lot of negative comments ourselves over the years; for example, when we introduced tabbed browsing a lot of people said it doesn’t make sense. We’ve introduced things like zooming, mouse gestures and the like – and we find they find their way into other browsers; tabs found their way into IE7. We are being copied, but we would like to focus on features and giving users a good experience.
It’s fantastic that Opera is being copied, that means they are doing very good job in providing users best web experience, but how long can it happen? How long can you brainstorm and add new features without seeing rapid Opera’s market share growth while competitors with those new features becoming stronger (more popular). Why It’s Not Enough To Have All The Greatest Features?
Web Browsers Flame War. Wanna Join?
Just kidding, don’t do that.
There’s an interesting thread (Have Firefox pre-installed as default browser) posted.
I haven’t read it all, just 1 out of 50 comments or so and found that it’s just another flame war (or will be the one soon).
There’s even a comment from Daniel Goldman (Opera Software).
I’m sure we (I work for Opera Software) could work some revenue sharing plan with Dell. Part of our revenue from the desktop browser comes from Google.
Any other companies wanna join too and try to get their stake from Dell? Everyone is just talking about how good or bad their favorite browser is.
One more interesting comment by sazar
There are other options besides Firefox, why promote one over the others? This will simply create a browser monopoly of sorts with Firefox. IE comes bundled with the OS and allows people to get online for the first time, this shouldn’t be a handicap. If the user is savvy enough, they will be able to download the browser by themselves.
I agree.
Google Browser, How Soon?
Seems Google wants to dominate everywhere and might join web browser wars someday.
There always been some rumors, but there is something going on for sure. Here are some facts:
Chris Silver Smith pointed that Google already registered GBrowser.com domain.
Ryan Naraine reported that Google hired a browser hacking guru.
They also have some deals with Firefox already and not so long time ago (April 2007) Michael Arrington wrote:
Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million.
So… How soon and what can we expect from it?
Foxkeh From Japan
Meet Foxkeh. It’s a new toy which was born in Japan and was created to support Firefox promotional campaign.
Is it cute? Maybe. I find it kinda funny and friendly looking toy. Foxheh.com blog also says: “Could this go into mass production if there’s enough public demand?!” So it’s up to you I guess.
Also, take a look at this promotional banner. For me it looks much better than the standard ones.
