On Saturday 02 October 2004 02:25, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> On Saturday 02 October 2004 01:45, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > IMHO Opera is one of the finest
> > examples of commercial software living in harmony with the free
> > (as in speech) community.
>
> Kaj,
> Your opinion means a great deal to me and I agree.
> Opera though, has a too cluttered interface to appeal to me. If
> Konqueror (gecko) would get it's javascript right I'd never even
> contemplate another browser. I've got an icon on my desktop that
> says "internet banking" and points directly at "opera", for all
> the other stuff I use konq. Crisp, clear and no distracting
> eye-candy, especially the seamless transition to ftp client and
> file browser is coooool;)
Agreed wholeheartedly. Konqueror is my *default* (although it isn't
gecko, but KHTML). Javascript is - IMHO - an invitation to all
kinds of crooks, thieves and whatnot. I disable it by default.
Once I had a home-banking account too. It was a little hard to set
up - what with the IT-staff at the bank knowing nothing but
Windows.
Opera was my client because it could *mimick* IE. - Then, some fine
day, my bank got *phished* and lost about 100.000 $.
Of course, I cancelled my home-banking account.
Nowadays I drive about 100 miles whenever I have to transactions
with my bank.... Relying on its *IT-expertise* is out of the
question.
Luckily, for everyday transactions (like getting real money), we
have a ATM nearby. It runs on OS/2. I trust it.
And Opera is still one of my preferred browsers. Well, it is
somewhat cluttered, but one can customize that. And it is FAST.
Can you remember their *bork edition* ?
Regards
Kaj Haulrich.
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