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September 19, 2005

Firefox on a USB drive

I'm a little late to the party with this one, but Firefox (which is the only way to browse the Interweb on a Windows box, IMHO) is now functional while running off of a USB thumbdrive. It's tiny, too; I have a little 32 meg drive that I keep all my stories on, and Firefox only takes up a fourth of the drive's space. Now I can just pop my drive into a USB port on any Windows machine and all my favorite sites and settings are right there in front of me, and I can use tabbed browsing instead of IE's terrible multiple windows. Ah, it's bliss. :)

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On September 19, 2005 9:55 PM, nordic fury said:

If you were smart and grabbed a free reg code during their birthday, Opera is pretty good too.

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On September 19, 2005 10:41 PM, Warren Frey said:

Well, I'm dumb, so no I didn't. Is Opera better than it was several years ago, the last time I tried it?

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On September 20, 2005 3:44 PM, nordic fury said:

Don't know. ;) That's what I'm told. Seems its free now too--no more banner edition.

It pioneered a lot of what firefox now offers. It apparently passed the "acid" test too, which means something to web-folk.

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On September 27, 2005 12:02 AM, cam c. said:

Opera is ok... finally fixed a lot of CSS rendering bugs in the past version. I grabbed it on the "free" day, only to find out a week or so later that they're making it free all the time... smart move, really.

I only keep it around as a counterbalance to IE and Firefox when I'm testing sites I've built; there's a few nice features, but nothing to convince me to switch full time...

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