isitreal - 8:52 pm on May 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hmm... can't say I can share the Opera enthusiasm, still fails to render some advanced css I have that mozilla/ie renders fine, there's a new bug I found instantly, looks like it's related to bottom: css, triggers a false overflow:auto reaction that opera 6, 7.1, 7.2 didn't.

I'd put Opera 7x with Safari 125, as the third best browser out there, or the best browser under 4 megabytes, take your pick.

Let's see, Firebird/firefox features:

tabbed browsing, with advanced configuration extensions for extreme finetuning of tab behaviors.

web developer toolbar.. if you haven't used it, don't or you'll never be able to stop using firebird.

added preference controls.

full mousemovement extensions, configurable navigator user agent strings, etc... that's just the extensions I've tried

Is it as fast as Opera, no, but I'd rather see my pages display without seeing a new bug on every subversion, last site I did I had to do opera 7 sub version testing server side due to a 7.1 bug that was fixed on 7.2, now there's a 7.5 bug that I'll have to figure out.

Nice trick with the ad removal by getting rid of buttons though..

oh, they have the scrolling overflow:auto with mousewheel half working, now it scrolls if you click in the overflowing space, not before you click there though... IE 5.5/6, and firebird 0.7 are still the only browsers out there to have gotten that working decently, though IE 6 it's buggy again, stopped working on firefox...

re: opera stats, if you're using Analog5 you are getting the real stats, I tested that thoroughly, every opera visit using every user agent setting was correctly id'ed as opera, from opera 4 to 7.23. So that 0.25-1% you're seeing is real.