Posted by Els on 08/27/05 09:14

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>> Only in Opera I have so many open at the same time. Basically cause
>> it opens every link from Usenet in a new tab.
>
> I ended up with the same setup some months ago, particularly for opening
> from feeds. I kept 'losing' tabs if links were opened in the tab currently
> in focus. I am more afraid about losing track of 'impending Web pages' to
> skimp than I am of having many tabs open.

Yup. I actually like it to, in the end of the day, look at all the
open tabs one by one, and leave the interesting ones open while
dismissing the rest. In the morning Opera only shows good information
and funny pages :-)

> I still think that vertical tabs may (if not should) become an option, even
> a hidden one. Did you know about the 'search as you begin typing'
> accessibility feature? I use it all the time, especially in my portal. I
> can type the first 2 or 3 letters of a link, which then sets in in focus
> (yes, it does that!), so ENTER follows the link. It is useful once the
> portal gets gigantic; you only need press 3 keys to get to each
> destination.

Do you know you can let Firefox go to whichever URL by mapping words
to URLs? Like I've mapped a Dutch dictionary (vandale.nl) search page
to the 'word' "vd". I only type 'vd' in the address bar and hit enter.
Goes straight to the right page. The portal is handy for the larger
lot of links, but the ones you use really often are quick enough via
the url and typing short codes.

> CTRL+T->ALT+Home to return to the portal in new tab.
> This had me lose the hype for mouse gestures.

I never even got into mouse gestures. Sometimes I make some funny
move, and Opera will ask if I want to start using mouse gestures. I
like the "no" button :-)

> Excuse my freaky browsing obsessions... I hope I don't give the wrong
> impression. Honestly.

That all depends on what impression you wanna give. You mean you wanna
come accross as someone who doesn't care about how he's using the
browser? Failed <g>

>> In Firefox I like the fact that the cross for closing a tab is not on
>> the tab itself, but to the right.
>
> Yes, I know exactly what you mean. RSSOwl makes that mistake.

Opera too. Very hard to click a tab open without accidentally hitting
the little cross. (only cause I have 28 tabs open)

Had never heard of RSSOwl, so I just downloaded and installed it. Now
I just have to see if it has any advantages over Awasu and/or
Feedreader :-)

>> The usual amount of tabs open in
>> Firefox for me is about 6 to 10. And usually pages I'm accustomed to,
>> I recognize the favicons if I can't read the titles.
>
> It becomes problematic if sites are broad or when you visit foreign sites.

Why? Not sure what either the width of the site or the origins have to
do with the width of the tab?

>> Two screens... I can only wish :\ ;-) I have a sidebar on my desktop,
>> and use alt-tab (with some XP power tool) between progs. Dialog and
>> OE are always full screen, Opera on about 1000x950, and Firefox on
>> whichever size I'm checking pages in. Apache minimized, chatwindows
>> about 500x900, Textpad and Ace-FTP almost fullscreen.
>
> You know exactly what you like. *smile*

<g>

>>> I have just set up a professor with
>>> OE. I told him that he should use Thunderbird, but sitting here at
>>> the office downloading and installing it would have been bad use of
>>> my time. *grin*
>>>
>>> ...at least I told him it was cr*p... same about Windows...
>>
>> You did good. <g>
>
> Good for me, or good for him? *grin* And don't get this reversed, what I did
> was good (easier) for me, but bad for him.

I meant you did good in at least mentioning to him that it's crap :-)
I did the same with my Dad. I installed Firefox on his pc, but left IE
on too, so he has something to fall back to when hitting a site that's
"not designed for" Firefox. Basically means I didn't make his
environment any safer, but I did broaden his horizon a bit ;-)

>>> so I keep everything on a single physical
>>> hard-drive. My obsession with archives sometimes scares me.
>>
>> With such an obsession for archives, I'd be scared of a crashing
>> hard-drive.
>
> No, au contraire (pardon my French). I am prepared to lose a hard-drive any
> day. Last time I backed up this entire hard-drive was... about 12 hours
> ago. A cron job put all changes since then on the SAN a few hours ago. A
> cron job takes care of it.

Ah right, you have more than one drive with the same archives on it.
I'd do that if I didn't need all the space on my two harddrives :-)

> I like 'passive' mail. With all the mailing lists and spam, I still get
> plenty to read, but I usually just read some subject lines. Newsgroups are
> the exception.

You /read/ all the messages on Usenet (well, for the groups you
subscribed to) ?

> I bought a new Linux box about 2-3 hours ago... sister will take my old
> laptop. SuSE would be insulted because it's a Mandrake box that I bought.

So, why did you get Mandrake and not SuSE again?

> With 3 Linux boxes (home, work, university) I can now have my triple backup.
> Can't beat that! *smile*

Indeed. I'd have to go back to school, and start work somewhere else
than at home to be able to do that <g>

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