[Liverpool] RE: Liverpool Digest, Vol 122, Issue 1
John Smith
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Tue Mar 4 12:54:22 GMT 2008
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> 1. What's your browser? (David Watson)
> 2. Re: What's your browser? (William Sanders / EFG)
> 3. Re: What's your browser? (Sujita Purushothaman)
> 4. Re: What's your browser? (Omar Baqueiro)
> 5. Re: What's your browser? (Daniel Hulme)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:18:23 +0000
> From: David Watson
> Subject: [Liverpool] What's your browser?
> To: Liverpool Linux User Group
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> Hello All,
>
> This week I switched back to Epiphany after a couple of years of Firefox
> and I came to a realisation. All of the time that I was using Firefox I
> had completely stopped using bookmarks. Strange I know, but I had
> stopped adding or even using any of my existing bookmarks. I would
> instead just leave pages open and let Firefox open then again each time
> it started.
>
> It was during the switch when I realised that in order to continue with
> the pages I had open in Firefox I would have to bookmark them before I
> switched. Now that I am back using Epiphany I'd like to let people know
> about my favourite feature, tag based bookmarks. Instead of placing each
> bookmark in a folder, you simply tag each one like del.icio.us and a
> bookmark hierarchy is built automatically.
>
> So my question to everyone is: What browser do you use and why?
>
> (And don't mention IE, unless you want to upset Vladimir)
>
> --
> David Watson - Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> david at planetwatson.co.uk, dwatson at debian.org
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> Jabber: dwatson at planetwatson.co.uk
> Web: http://planetwatson.co.uk/blog
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:28:47 -0600 (CST)
> From: "William Sanders / EFG"
> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] What's your browser?
> To: "Liverpool Linux User Group"
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> I've been using OPERA , paying for it since 2002.
> There's some MS sites it will never render properly, so if I have to get
> in with my subscription, I switch over to a MS OS boxen with IE installed
> - I loathe that approach, but it works.
>
> I LOVE OPERA - I especially like the concept of saving sessions - So I can
> have 22 tabbed windows open, and then save em all (including history) as a
> named session. Display Language switching is dead easy too - I can easily
> render Simplified Chinese .
>
> I don't touch firefox , sorry.
>
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> This week I switched back to Epiphany after a couple of years of Firefox
>> and I came to a realisation. All of the time that I was using Firefox I
>> had completely stopped using bookmarks. Strange I know, but I had
>> stopped adding or even using any of my existing bookmarks. I would
>> instead just leave pages open and let Firefox open then again each time
>> it started.
>>
>> It was during the switch when I realised that in order to continue with
>> the pages I had open in Firefox I would have to bookmark them before I
>> switched. Now that I am back using Epiphany I'd like to let people know
>> about my favourite feature, tag based bookmarks. Instead of placing each
>> bookmark in a folder, you simply tag each one like del.icio.us and a
>> bookmark hierarchy is built automatically.
>>
>> So my question to everyone is: What browser do you use and why?
>>
>> (And don't mention IE, unless you want to upset Vladimir)
>>
>> --
>> David Watson - Debian GNU
>>
> --
> William Sanders / efGroup
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:35:21 +0000
> From: Sujita Purushothaman
> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] What's your browser?
> To: Liverpool Linux User Group
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> David Watson wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> This week I switched back to Epiphany after a couple of years of Firefox
>> and I came to a realisation. All of the time that I was using Firefox I
>> had completely stopped using bookmarks. Strange I know, but I had
>> stopped adding or even using any of my existing bookmarks. I would
>> instead just leave pages open and let Firefox open then again each time
>> it started.
>>
> I have 4-5 sites that I visit almost daily on the bookmark toolbar. Once
> in a while I do finish with all open tabs and close Firefox cleanly,
> otherwise I let it restore the session too.
>> So my question to everyone is: What browser do you use and why?
>>
> Firefox, because I need to use some bibliography software (I use Zotero).
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:40:46 +0000
> From: "Omar Baqueiro"
> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] What's your browser?
> To: "Liverpool Linux User Group"
> Message-ID:
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> I use Firefox and Opera. Most of the time I use firefox (I just can
> not live without AdBlock plus, scrapbook and del.icio.us extensions).
> However when I want to browse something fast I use Opera. I think it
> is *the best* engineered browser. I used to hate the adware version
> but now that it is free I am happy with it.
>
> BTW, Konqueror is quite a nice browser too, unfortunately in my
> experience K Desktop Environment is very unstable so I prefer Gnome
> (that, and that it was "created" by Miguel de Icaza, a Mexican ;-)
>
>
> Regards,
> Omar.
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:28 PM, William Sanders / EFG
> wrote:
>> I've been using OPERA , paying for it since 2002.
>> There's some MS sites it will never render properly, so if I have to get
>> in with my subscription, I switch over to a MS OS boxen with IE installed
>> - I loathe that approach, but it works.
>>
>> I LOVE OPERA - I especially like the concept of saving sessions - So I can
>> have 22 tabbed windows open, and then save em all (including history) as a
>> named session. Display Language switching is dead easy too - I can easily
>> render Simplified Chinese .
>>
>> I don't touch firefox , sorry.
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > This week I switched back to Epiphany after a couple of years of Firefox
>> > and I came to a realisation. All of the time that I was using Firefox I
>> > had completely stopped using bookmarks. Strange I know, but I had
>> > stopped adding or even using any of my existing bookmarks. I would
>> > instead just leave pages open and let Firefox open then again each time
>> > it started.
>> >
>> > It was during the switch when I realised that in order to continue with
>> > the pages I had open in Firefox I would have to bookmark them before I
>> > switched. Now that I am back using Epiphany I'd like to let people know
>> > about my favourite feature, tag based bookmarks. Instead of placing each
>> > bookmark in a folder, you simply tag each one like del.icio.us and a
>> > bookmark hierarchy is built automatically.
>> >
>> > So my question to everyone is: What browser do you use and why?
>> >
>> > (And don't mention IE, unless you want to upset Vladimir)
>> >
>> > --
>> > David Watson - Debian GNU
>> >
>> --
>> William Sanders / efGroup
>>
>>
>>
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> --
> Omar Baqueiro Espinosa
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> Computer Systems Engineer
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 00:40:20 +0000
> From: Daniel Hulme
> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] What's your browser?
> To: Liverpool Linux User Group
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> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:18:23PM +0000, David Watson wrote:
>> So my question to everyone is: What browser do you use and why?
>
> Iceweasel. I used to use Opera, but it is non-free, which is non-ideal,
> so as soon as it became possible to do everything Opera does in
> Iceweasel I switched. (And at the time I switched, Opera had this
> caching bug that made it take about 40s to start up on my machine, which
> annoyed me enough to make me follow through my half-formed idea of
> changing.)
>
> Within Iceweasel I use Sage to read RSS and Atom feeds, FireGPG for
> GPG-signing the contents of forms, downThemAll as a download manager,
> and Firebug when editing websites. I also use keyconfig to map z to back
> and x to forward, as in Opera, because I really can't navigate without
> those two keys. And of course the mplayer plugin to listen to streaming
> Real Audio from the BBC website.
>
> --
> Paraphernalia/Never hides your broken bones,/ And I don't know why you'd
> want to try:/ It's plain to see you're on your own. -- Paul Simon
> http://surreal.istic.org/ Calm down, it's only ones and zeroes.
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