Friday, January 19, 2007

Opera Web Browser

I just realized that many of my "friends, family, and acquaintances" are using Microsoft's IE brower because it's just too much trouble to get other browsers, or because they think other browsers "won't work as well". Not true, folks !

Do yourselves a favor and load another browser. I particularly like Opera - it's free (if you get the free version, there's a banner at the top, which is OK with me). It's available on http://www.opera.com .

The advantages of other browsers ? You'll find your pages load much faster than in IE (none of the IE overhead and feature bloat). The browser has a much more realistic progress bar that actually gives you meaningful information about what's loading (number of pictures, % finished for each part of a page, etc.), rather than IE's plain "loading" bar, which doesn't tell you anything meaningful, except that the page hasn't finished loading. =:0

Take a chance and break the MS grip on broswers.

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