Firefox 1.5 and Opera 8.5 are out!

[vbraun]

Just in case you didn't know.

Links for both:
Firefox 1.5
Opera 8.5

So the browser wars resume!

 

[Speedo]

Actually Opera 8.51 is out now.

 

[Padma]

I would have sworn I was using Opera 8.5 for the last month or two, until I upgraded to 8.5.1 last weekend....

 

[Speedo]

It actually has been out for a while. IIRC it was released when they made Opera free... which was back in late Sept... Oct or so.

 

[vbraun]

Whoops... I was readin about a new version of opera in PC World and didn't remember the version number.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Yeah, I read that IE (7, not out yet - I loved reading about how they couldn't get some features in on time ) vs. FF vs. Opera article in PC World.

A cool, and useless, features in FF 1.5 is you can drag-n-drop tabs, to rearrange them. I don't really see the need for it. I'll stick with FF...

 

[MarineCorps]

A cool, and useless, features in FF 1.5 is you can drag-n-drop tabs, to rearrange them. I don't really see the need for it. I'll stick with FF...

Yeah. Apples Saffari browser can do that. Only thing about it I like. I always use FF instead of safari and always install it if it's not on.

 

[Zelig]

Yeah, Opera does that too, first browser to do it, for that matter.

 

[Speedo]

A cool, and useless, features in FF 1.5 is you can drag-n-drop tabs, to rearrange them. I don't really see the need for it. I'll stick with FF...

Opera was doing that 3 years ago It is useful actually. I usually have a train of forums that I visit, and leave a tab open for each, and I get used to a certain forum being on a certain tab...

 

[Turner]

A cool, and useless, features in FF 1.5 is you can drag-n-drop tabs, to rearrange them. I don't really see the need for it. I'll stick with FF...

Organization. Actually, AvantBrowser already supports this.

 

[Gogf]

Actually, AvantBrowser already supports this.

AvantBrowser is such IE with a few extra features thrown in. From the screenshots on their website, it looks just like IE too.

 

[Turner]

Indeed it is. And it offers just about everything that Firefox does too. Built in, without having to find and install plugins.

 

[Speedo]

AvantBrowser is such IE with a few extra features thrown in. From the screenshots on their website, it looks just like IE too.

That's the main reason I avoid it, and one of the reasons I don't like Firefox that well. All that space pointlessly wasted... this is why I like Opera - nice & clean.

 

[Babbler]

That's the main reason I avoid it, and one of the reasons I don't like Firefox that well. All that space pointlessly wasted... this is why I like Opera - nice & clean.

IE 6, Firefox 1.5 and Opera 8.51 all seem to take up the same space on the window on my computer; in fact, with Firefox's tabs or Opera's view bar, IE would win on that space count.

 

[Gogf]

Indeed it is. And it offers just about everything that Firefox does too. Built in, without having to find and install plugins.

Except that it's just a vulnerable to security as IE, looks like IE, and has the same atrocious IE rendering engine.