Comments on: Tools that Change your Life: Session Manager http://www.cineris.org/blog/2006/08/15/tools-that-change-your-life-session-manager/ Musings on Electronics and Culture Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:54:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mark http://www.cineris.org/blog/2006/08/15/tools-that-change-your-life-session-manager/#comment-117 Mark Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:15:21 +0000 http://www.cineris.org/blog/2006/08/15/tools-that-change-your-life-session-manager/#comment-117 I've been using opera as my everyday use browser since version 5.x. The native mouse gestures are awesome, and while I occassionally need to open an IE or Firefox browser to do something, those instances have become less and less frequent as Opera updates their browsers (the current 9.x versions are the best yet). Mouse gestures certainly qualify as a tool that changed my life. Firefox has mouse gestures (as an extension), but they're not as smooth as Opera's. The session saving is also cool, as is that little trashcan that saves all the windows you closed in case you accidentally closed one (something that happens easily when using mouse gestures). Still, I can see why most people go for Firefox. It's got some advantages over opera (and both are way better than IE), including the massive library of extensions and plugins (Opera really needs to do a better job of that), but not enough that I'd consider switching myself. I’ve been using opera as my everyday use browser since version 5.x. The native mouse gestures are awesome, and while I occassionally need to open an IE or Firefox browser to do something, those instances have become less and less frequent as Opera updates their browsers (the current 9.x versions are the best yet). Mouse gestures certainly qualify as a tool that changed my life. Firefox has mouse gestures (as an extension), but they’re not as smooth as Opera’s.

The session saving is also cool, as is that little trashcan that saves all the windows you closed in case you accidentally closed one (something that happens easily when using mouse gestures).

Still, I can see why most people go for Firefox. It’s got some advantages over opera (and both are way better than IE), including the massive library of extensions and plugins (Opera really needs to do a better job of that), but not enough that I’d consider switching myself.

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