Improving your favorite web browser.
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Tabstaking for blink versions if possible would save alot of space on the tab bar.
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in my favourite browser (opera 12) i would like to see something similar to chrome's IE Tab Multi extension. it allows you to open a tab as ie within chrome. more info can be found at http://iblogbox.com/chrome/ietab/alert.php. if you can forgive the horrible english, the extension is extremely handy. I would want something like that to emulate other browser as well. it seems much better than user agent switching.
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One Browser = One Process!
I often mentioned it at other places but here again: The Browser must work in one process! Especially Windows can´t handle an infinite number of processes without lagging on smaller or older machines (≤ 2GB). But Opium forces it to.
Today after a long time I tried Firefox (26.0) on my 1 GB Win7 Netbook; Man - there are worlds between in terms of speed in opposed to Opium! Firefox runs in contrast to Opium which just think two times before it opens a new tab (-process). And that only up to a certain/small number of tabs to become finally unusable. And I do not use many extensions.Damn. If even a different rendering engine, they should have taken that!
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unfortunately, Firefox is also switching to multi-process architecture
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A modern multi-core processor can handle twice as many threads as it has cores without even switching, so I wouldn't exclude multithreading completely. But … it has to recognize the resources available and handle them appropriately.
That's one thing about Presto (and I've mentioned it elsewhere) - a seriously taxing page won't freeze it. I've seen some file listings (that is to say, no javascript at all) freeze Opera 19 for several minutes, the same page loads faster in Presto and appears less of a demand on the system.
Say, something like http://mirror.dacentec.com/mageia/distrib/4/x86_64/media/core/release/ (a list of files in the new version of Mageia Linux). Okay, on my Win7 laptop neither freezes, but Presto renders the page quicker and actually allows you to scroll while it is loading. You can scroll in Opera 19 too, but at some point you run out of rendered content and see just a checkerboard. But this laptop is > 1 GB RAM, it may well freeze a system with less RAM.
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unfortunately, Firefox is also switching to multi-process architecture
Great news … :S
But why? What is the benefit? Or is it easier to program, therefore less work for the developers?
Ok - in Unix (OS X and Linux) processes are only forks, so it doesn´t matter. But not in Windows. There they cause overhead, in opposite to threads within a process, which are no problem.
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I also consider that Opera Presto was complete. The best feature would be to polish the feature sets that Opera had at versions 8-10 and make it perfectly stable, to immortalise the legend. Not going to happen, I know.
My new favourite browser is Elinks. It is console-based, but it has menus, configurable keyboard shortcuts, bookmarks (!) and it can be extended with scripts. I'm posting in it right now. It doesn't support images directly, it doesn't have Javascript (can be added) and its support for text features is only as good as the terminal under it. I actually like it this way, because this way all text has the same size and is therefore readable. In old Opera I also used to switch images off and set a custom CSS to fix all text at certain size.
I call it webpage optimiser. I wish more browsers would have such capacities.
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This is probably my #1 feature I missed when switching back to Firefox. Presto performed terribly on my PC and that finally got to me.
Otter seems promising at the moment, but still too buggy to use as a full time browser. http://otter-browser.org/
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My new favourite browser is Elinks. It is console-based, but it has menus, configurable keyboard shortcuts, bookmarks (!) and it can be extended with scripts…
…and it is anyway a nerd browser. For normal users completely irrelevant and unusable.
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My new favourite browser is Elinks. It is console-based, but it has menus, configurable keyboard shortcuts, bookmarks (!) and it can be extended with scripts…
…and it is anyway a nerd browser. For normal users completely irrelevant and unusable.
That's what the company decided about Opera too, you know: Irrelevant nerd browser, let's remove all features citing a bogus research according to which nobody uses bookmarks.
Console is perfectly usable to many people I know. When you are on *nix, you have to like console, or at least tolerate it. It's good for your eyes too, when properly configured. Console-based browsers remove the unnecessary flashiness from the web. I used Opera the same way.
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Images/animations and plugins disabled was really popular for people with old hardware or limited bandwidth - it was just about required on dial-up - and in fact is still available in Opera 19. The fancy userCSS that older versions of Opera included is not yet in the new Opera though, nor "Fit to width".
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Yesterday I found a funny (or scary) outlook on the browser of 2030:
.2030 The World's Most Popular Browser
[attachment=68]browser2030.jpg[/attachment]
Dream UI
No old-fashioned bar and button
Super sleek and cleanSource until 1. March
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Wouldn't surprise me in the least. The times - they are a'changin. We shouldn't expect the browsers to continue to look and act like they did in the 90's.
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But one thing you must be aware: Then they got us!
One account. All of services means:
You are the slave of those services. No free Internet for free humans. -
Maybe… but I'm not that pessimistic. There will always be some young freedom loving genius who will find a way to circumvent the establishment. The future excites me; it always has. I love to keep moving forward. The only person in my immediate circle even more zealous about that is my wife, Lin. Seriously, you should see her around technology. It's no wonder to me why her son has succeeded so well with Microsoft.
Anyway, I don't like to go in reverse and that for me would be a browser suite like Opera Presto or Netscape or the old Mozilla suite or SeaMonkey. I wNt something different... something cleaner and lighter.
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My favorite browser is almost dead.Currently searching for replacement having same features.
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If i could just get continued support and updates for opera 12, I would be so happy
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This:
http://ruario.ghost.io/2014/03/05/extensions-highlight-selectable-hyperlink-text/without an extension and fully working like in O12
(I linked to that post beacuse may be it might help some people - but it is not enough for me.)
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Another thing I would really like to see in a browser:
The real address of a link shown on hover in a decent status bar that stays open as long as I am hovering at the bottom or wherever - best one that even resolves all those pesky shortened URLs to their final address, because I want to know which site I will visit before I click the link.
I personally would prefer a permanent status bar that stays open, but some people do not seem to like that.
(I just saw, that they removed it completely from Chrom(e|ium) - WTF?! :blink: )
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For me a Fully functional MyBrowser:config page would solve most issuses.
Most other things have been mentioned above:
Content blocking
Status Bar
Cookie/Cache/History controls
Bookmark manager that can handle folder organization
Small footprint and ease of use on limited systems (Opera proved you do not need 30Mb of download to have a more than usable browser)
Multi-platform