>best? And to that comment, does anyone know bad or good about Opera? I >sure like what I see so far. How about it's securety?
Opera for Mac OS 9 is extremely fast, at least compared to other mac browsers, but: - it fails to render MANY pages (many really, the last I met was bias-inc.com last night while showing to friends how fast it is - look at it in iCab and Opera, of course it's fast, but I'd rather see it slowly than *not* see it very fast) - it lets you arrange the toolbar almost any way you want, which is good, but has few other configuration settings when compared to iCab, specially on security matters (scripts, ads, cookies) - since they chose to display ads in the app itself, it is very unlikely that it will one day allow you to filter images/scripts by name/size/location/server/link etc. or limit javascript's authorizations (I almost never see ads in iCab, which speeds things ups too by the way: I'd rather *not* see ads than see them very fast :-) - Opera is often nice and smart in it's operation (at least compared to IE), but iCab does MANY things right that others spend years to follow (IE and Opera now allow you to open a link in a new background window like iCab, but only iCab displays a zoom effect for feedback, others require you to guess it worked, or not if you did it unintentionally, IE and Opera can save pages complete with images, but IE RELOADS the page that is obviously already there and Opera seems to flatten all elements in a folder you need to create first, thus modifying the HTML code, whereas iCab saves all the page's elements according to their original hierarchy in a zip archive, and even displays the original locations in the address field when you open it, etc.) - Opera still isn't finished and fails much more often than iCab (I almost never need to switch to IE or NS any more using iCab), yet it already asks for a fee whereas iCab's authors give it for free until it's finished (and they are the only ones to release so many corrections before implementing new or missing features, because they're the only ones to favor stability over the length of the feature list, and given the stability af all preview versions so far, the final version can't be bad) - Opera looks nice, whereas iCab's default buttons are terrible, but the two allow you to choose or make new ones You guessed it: I'll use iCab (and keep an eye on Opera and Omniweb). ---- VRic ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
