Improving your favorite web browser.
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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)
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Most of the things mentioned in this thread are things we have lost - how about some new improvements?
Like scrollbars that actually show what is in the document?
There is even a study about how to do that best:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-40498-6_51
but I can remember having seen such a thing on a web page made with pure JS some years ago (sadly I can't find again where). Nowadays we could even add it as an extension, but I would prefer to see it natively built into the browser….
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… while I am on it:
An option to "detach" videos from a website, meaning: Opening the running video in its own tab, so that we can move it to the side and watch it with half an eye while doing more important stuff in the main window.edit: best with the option "always in the foreground"
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Right now i am contented to my browser as long as he can support every web page that i want to visit.
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Hi,
Thank you guys, many of these suggestions are very good ones, and duly noted.
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My best feature would be added OM into the browser. It is absolutely makes different browser. Or at least a good extension can be done tgis.
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My best feature would be added OM into the browser.
… but only if it has added encryption support (OpenPGP, S/MIME) or at least an API so that we can use external programs to encrypt and, even more important, sign mails with digital signatures - which was an old and often requested wish for the original OM too. I'd really need it simply because it is required to send legally binding mails since our legislative decided and pronounced the digital signature act some years ago.
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+1
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One thing that annoyed me since browsers support it:
Deactivating html <audio> and <video> elements until I want to see them, best being integrated in site specific settings too, there are pages where I would happily set it to "never!"
I just got a shock when I visited a page and suddenly some advertisement started playing a really distracting video and drowning some unrecognizable stuff into my ears. While blocking those stuff is easy with Flash (just deactivate plugins while doing serious stuff) it affords scripting with the "modern" browsers, which in itself is a no-go on many sites.
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Yeah, the one good thing about Flash was that in Presto it was fairly easy to disable plug-ins when you didn't want annoying videos.
And, also, I wish browsers would show some kind of icon when a background tab is playing audio. I think Maxathon did it but I never really tried that browser.
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An option to select and deselect multiple tabs by Ctrl+Click and tab ranges by Shift+Click for easy moving them to another window or closing them in a bunch.