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ehowton December 16 2008, 20:23:32 UTC
I think the title of fastest now belongs to Firefox 3.1 beta, and though I initially poo-poo'd Opera's internal bittorrent client, I've found that I rely on it in more cases than not when I'm on various operating systems.

Also, spell checking is NOT built-in, it requires a separate installation of GNU's aspell.

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schpydurx December 16 2008, 20:32:33 UTC
I think the title of fastest now belongs to Firefox 3.1 beta
I've installed Firefox 3 in Windows at work, OS X at work and OS X at home. I still can't stand to use it. I haven't seen any comparisons since Firefox 3 came out. The last numbers I saw for Javascript comparison was under Firefox 2, which was slower than IE!

I initially poo-poo'd Opera's internal bittorrent client, I've found that I rely on it in more cases than not when I'm on various operating systems.
It'll do in a pinch, particularly cross-platform. I'm found of Tomato, but would not be entirety opposed to using Opera for this purpose.

Before Gmail debuted, I used Opera for my SMTP client (and loved it).

While neither Colloquy or mIRC, Opera's IRC client is highly usable.

Also, spell checking is NOT built-in, it requires a separate installation of GNU's aspell.
I'm still sore about spell check not being built in, but I see Opera's point. Of course, when you're on an OS (Mac) where spell check is built into the OS and is available even in a lowly ASCII editor, this ( ... )

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ehowton December 16 2008, 20:37:52 UTC
I haven't seen any comparisons since Firefox 3 came out.
And on the Opera site, you won't.

It'll do in a pinch, particularly cross-platform.
Which is what I was trying to qualify above. It's already there!

Opera requires no plugins or endless configuration.
I wasn't talking about why Opera chose, or didn't choose to do anything. I was simply disagreeing with your statement.

Nevertheless, aspell is a bitch to get set up correctly.
Not on GNU boxes.

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schpydurx December 16 2008, 20:46:11 UTC
And on the Opera site, you won't.
I linked to Coding Horror.

Which is what I was trying to qualify above. It's already there!
I was agreeing with you.

I was simply disagreeing with your statement.
Was that the purpose of your aspell argument?

Not on GNU boxes.
It tooke me forever, but I got it set up on Ubuntu once. It wasn't the matter of getting aspell installed, it was getting it to work with Opera. I gave up trying to get it to work correctly on OS X.

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schpydurx December 16 2008, 20:46:29 UTC
Why a fleshlight avatar?

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ehowton December 16 2008, 20:50:41 UTC
Surely you remember our early interactions on Xanga...?

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schpydurx December 16 2008, 20:54:46 UTC
I remember you taunting with it.

Why are you being such a hater today?

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ehowton December 16 2008, 21:10:10 UTC
That's not it at all! I love our little interactions!

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schpydurx December 16 2008, 21:13:28 UTC
Whatever.

You're making some kind of overtly subtle point that is so subtle, it's undetectable. And you're being grossly vulgar with your avatar choices.

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