Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Firefox problem

 

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:45:57PM +0200, John Black wrote:
>
> I don't use the email client included in Opera and Opera does not try to
> force me to use it. I tried it once but I like Thunderbird so I deleted
> the email accounts and that was it.

I believe that one can actually speed things up with the -nomail (or
--nomail) option.

>
> I also don't use the Opera bit torrent support. I use Ktorrent and Opera
> is happy with that.

Ktorrent? You're using a GUI? Sigh, kids these days. :)
rtorrnet FTW. Erm, rtorrent, I mean.

>
> The "Speed dial" feature looked kind of useless at first but I use it a
> lot now. I have 20 speed dials and I all my important sites are only one
> click away.

Yes, I know. Like you, I always hid it. Now, I find, especially at work,
I have several of pages in it and it's actually quite useful.

>
> The one configuration option I am missing is the option to fully
> customize the user agent string. Opera only gives me the ability to
> choose between a few predefined browser strings. With FireFox I can
> browse the web as the Googlebot.

Hrrm, didn't people do that to get free access to....oh, never mind.

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