Free Software school club?

[SlackRat]

lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:25:13AM -0500, SlackRat wrote:
> > Without wanting to be too negative, this user has just dumped FireFox and gone
> > back to using Opera. 
> > 
> > I too had been swept away by the FireBird/FireFox/WhatYaMayCallIt Mystique,
> > and it definitely has a number of great features. But every release, and
> > patches thereto, is getting quirkier than it's precedecessor.
> 
> I find it gets better and better, at least the Debian builds.

I suppose in actual fact a lot depends upon what you do on your box and how
you work.

I tend to have need of a browser in many apps and find the Firefox profiles
somwhat of a nuisance to manage.

Also the bookmarks are hard to work with although they are much easier to
spider with a cronjob than the Opera ones 

The following logfile dumped into the mail gives a beautiful report on what's
good and what's not :)

#! /bin/bash
/usr/bin/wget -t 2 -o /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks --spider --force-html -i /inconnu/.mozilla/firefox/baseuser/bookmarks.html
/bin/cat /inconnu/.headers/bookmarks/bookmark_header > /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks_temp
/bin/cat /inconnu/.headers/bookmarks/404_header >> /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks_temp
/bin/cat /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks | /bin/grep -B 4 404 >> /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks_temp
/bin/cat /inconnu/.headers/bookmarks/403_header >> /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks_temp
/bin/cat /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks | /bin/grep -B 4 403 >> /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks_temp
/bin/rm /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks
/bin/mv /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks_temp  /var/log/test_firefox_bookmarks
# eof

> 
> > Opera, on the other hand admittedly has a few quirks of its own, but after
> > using it long enough to firstly discover its idiosyncracies and secondly
> > appreciate its power, it is difficult to justify using FireFox.
> > 
> > So when compiling a 'free' software listing, at least acknowledge that other
> > browsers/user agents exist, particularly since Opera has now reduced the size
> > of its nag ads, which were the reason I abandoned it temporarily, to an
> > almost unintrusive size.
> 
> I personally tend to have both opera and firefox running, since opera
> unfortunately sucks at a few web sites.  The main thing I like about
> opera is that at least when it crashes (which is infrequent) or you kill
> it, it remembers what pages you were on and goes back to the same state
> when you open it.  If firefox did that (and reliably) I think I could
> ditch opera permanently with no regrets.  But for now I use two browsers
> at the same time.

Yes, in fact I still use both Opera and Firefox (in X) :)

But right now Opera is my default browser for straight web browsing - also I
like the built in RSS capabilities.


I guess in point of fact one needs to change once in a while as one or the
other of the browsers comes up with a feature that suits what one does and how
one does it.

-- 
Slackrat

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