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You know what the greatest common divisor of Firefox, Chrome and Safari is? Internet Explorer 6. That's right Jack, all the functionality you're using in a bro
by Tomis 16y ago
You know what the greatest common divisor of Firefox, Chrome and Safari is? Internet Explorer 6.
That's right Jack, all the functionality you're using in a browser is the one Internet Explorer 6 has. Sadly, most of the people using the browsers you mentioned do the same.
The world you live in is the cave mentioned by Plato. You have never went outside and see there's so much things a browser can do, you're content in your small little world thinking "meh, my browser already has anything I would ever need".
Wrong. You could use a better interaction with the browser, you could use some extra features to make your life easier and stop checking your webmail when you have pop3 and smtp. You could have a lot of things if you would just come out of the cave.
Sure thing, Firefox has the extensions, but Chrome does not. You're missing out on a lot of functionality that you never knew existed.
How are you supposed to know that there is such a thing since you usually search for an extension when you KNOW you need (such as ad-block) but it never occurs to you that you might use a neat clever feature? You're stuck in the dark because you don't know light exists.
- ugh 16y agoNow I’m depressed. I never said that I will never use extensions. I never said that I will never use Opera. I have Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera on my HDD and ready to go. If somebody on HN or anywhere else tells me about a cool new extension or a cool new feature I will of course want to try it out. I love doing that, I really do! It’s just that for my day to day usage I have until now always returned to vanilla Safari [+]. That’s just how it is and I can’t change it. That’s how I like it best. [+] The only extension I have installed is ClickToFlash.
- Tomis 16y ago@ugh - nevermind, it's a miscommunication issue; I'm sorry for my harsh tone. Whatever browser you use try mouse gestures. Here is a quick tutorial for Opera - http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/gestures/ http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/gestures/ And also in Opera you can go back/forward by using the following combos: 1. press right mouse button 2. left click 3. release right button (back) 1. press left mb 2. right click 3. release left mb (forward)