- Jan 29, 2010
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Half curiosity and half question: what browser do people use here? I used firefox for years, then about a year and a half ago switched to chrome because it could sync, was cleaner, and seemed more intuitive.
Then Google revised their privacy policies, and I decided that it was the final straw (I'd been considering it for some time, but it's a huge PITA to switch everything over to a new browser, especially in the middle of a semester) to switch over to Opera. I've always heard great things about Opera, and to be honest I found it a little bit of a pain. Been using it for about a month now, and there are any number of little problems that, finally today, made me throw up my hands and go back to chrome.
Opera never quite seems to get a handle on my bookmarks--it's always putting them in the wrong spot, and it takes way longer to bookmark a page than it should. When I get home, something I bookmarked in the bar on my desktop at school won't be there, or the bar is rearranged.
Plus, it is always blocking me when I click on links in a thread, whether here or somewhere else, and I can't for the life of me get it to stop.
Plus, and this is a huge pain, I can't do anything flash at school (since I don't have admin privileges) in Opera, while chrome never had a problem with it.
I still don't like the idea of using Chrome, but Opera doesn't seem nearly as polished. I'm sure these problems above are ones that could be fixed, but why should it be so difficult to do so? I'm not a complete idiot (really, I promise), but Opera stymies me way more than it should. Sure, it gave me some customizability that Chrome doesn't, but it wasn't worth it to constantly be fixing little things. I figured they would smooth out eventually, but they still haven't. Think I'd going back to chrome.
Then Google revised their privacy policies, and I decided that it was the final straw (I'd been considering it for some time, but it's a huge PITA to switch everything over to a new browser, especially in the middle of a semester) to switch over to Opera. I've always heard great things about Opera, and to be honest I found it a little bit of a pain. Been using it for about a month now, and there are any number of little problems that, finally today, made me throw up my hands and go back to chrome.
Opera never quite seems to get a handle on my bookmarks--it's always putting them in the wrong spot, and it takes way longer to bookmark a page than it should. When I get home, something I bookmarked in the bar on my desktop at school won't be there, or the bar is rearranged.
Plus, it is always blocking me when I click on links in a thread, whether here or somewhere else, and I can't for the life of me get it to stop.
Plus, and this is a huge pain, I can't do anything flash at school (since I don't have admin privileges) in Opera, while chrome never had a problem with it.
I still don't like the idea of using Chrome, but Opera doesn't seem nearly as polished. I'm sure these problems above are ones that could be fixed, but why should it be so difficult to do so? I'm not a complete idiot (really, I promise), but Opera stymies me way more than it should. Sure, it gave me some customizability that Chrome doesn't, but it wasn't worth it to constantly be fixing little things. I figured they would smooth out eventually, but they still haven't. Think I'd going back to chrome.
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