Tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer

[Asher]

Now stop whining: http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm

Tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, google bar support, ad blocker, popup blocker, skinning support, and it actually uses IE to render the webpages and it looks like IE.

You can even click links and drag them to a tab, and it'll open them there...

It's freeware, BTW.

[St Leo]

it actually uses IE to render the webpages

How is this a good thing? MSIE can't handle PNGs or CSS. It also misrenders loads of other things, but let's not get into that.

Tabbed browsing

Same problem as in Mozilla/Firebird. The tabs cannot be moved to the left (or right) side of the screen.

mouse gestures

Unlike AvantWhatever, this actually uses the standard mouse gestures for back and forward. Not in the same league as the customizable mouse gestures for everything in Opera 7.10, but better than some things out there.

You can even click links and drag them to a tab, and it'll open them there...

That's only useful because it won't let you drag and drop tabs around the way Opera will. Toolbar customization is also the standard clumsy affair rather than the joy it is in Opera.

Things I've noticed:
-text zooming won't work on my site just as in standard IE
-no support for LINK element navigation as defined years ago in HTML 4.01. I find the Search link especially convenient on Slashdot and use other buttons elsewhere.
-Unsurprisingly, it lacks the Show Images and Author Mode buttons that I've come to depend on to make braindead sites behave the way I want them to. No FastForward either, but I can live without FF.
-Why does it have separate buttons for Stop and Reload? Even friggin' Safari has caught on to that they are never needed at the same time and combined their slot.
-the bundled Mozilla skin is extremely ugly compared to both actual Mozilla and Opera's excellent Mozilla skin that I am using right now.:P


In conclusion, it's the best Opera clone I've seen, but it's dragged down by the MSIE engine. I wish someone would wrap Opera's interface around the Mozilla engine (not that Opera's engine is bad, but the ad takes up some space I'd rather have free). I really fail to see the point to why someone would want to use a wrapper for a browser that will no longer be updated, but, hey, it's a free planet.

[Ned]

I just tried Opera. I must admit, it is the best browser out there right now.

Interesting.

How did this happen?

[geeslaka]

St. Leo: How can I customize the mouse gestures in Opera?

[Skanky Burns]

Hooray for tabbed browsing!



I'll check it out if I ever get sick of Opera. Or it does something better than Opera. Opera. Opera Opera.

[Frozzy]

Go Opera!

[ixnay]

/me also voices support for Opera

[Drake Tungsten]

Opera

[Atahualpa]

How is this a good thing? MSIE can't handle PNGs or CSS

ah yes? Well I use CSS and it works perfectly.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by geeslaka
St. Leo: How can I customize the mouse gestures in Opera?

File > Preferences > Mouse and Keyboard > Edit (on the Mouse setup bit, not the keyboard obviously)

[Q Classic]

opera is quite thhe innovator, no?

[Boris Godunov]

All this love of opera warms my heart.

[Asher]

Originally posted by St Leo
How is this a good thing? MSIE can't handle PNGs or CSS. It also misrenders loads of other things, but let's not get into that.

It supports CSS and PNGs fine, just not alpha transparancy in the PNGs. Even then, as soon as you install QuickTime (which most people have), it takes over running embedded PNGs.

Same problem as in Mozilla/Firebird. The tabs cannot be moved to the left (or right) side of the screen.

This is a problem?
Even the people I know with Opera don't put tabs on the left or right...why would anyone do that? Text reads left-to-right, putting tabs on the left or right is just stupid...

As for why it's a good thing that it uses the IE engine -- 95% of web browsers are IE. Around 1% are Opera. Which do you think will work in most sites?

Rather than getting your panties in a twist over supporting paper W3C standards, why don't you wake up and realize the only standards that truly matter are the platforms the web designers make their sites for? In this case, it's IE all around.

[Boris Godunov]

Huzzah!

*OOM-pah-pah, OOM-pah-pah*

Libiamo ne' lieti calici,
che la bellezza infiora;
e la fuggevol ora
s'inebriì a voluttà.
Libiam ne' dolci fremiti
che suscita l'amore,
poichè quell'occhio al core
onnipotente va.
Libiamo, amore, amor fra i calici
più caldi baci avrà!

[Skanky Burns]

Did anyone mention how great Opera is yet?