Nathan wrote
>
> Are you a collector, Brian? Why would you want to keep old versions of a
> browser installed on your computer? I think a piece of software that
> cleans up properly after itself by deleting earlier versions is a good
> thing.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
Well, yes sometimes i am a collector. On my W'95 machine I have working
versions of the very first two browsers that were written. One is called Cello.
In this case my motives are different.
These earlier versions of Opera save entire web pages in a much more
satisfactory manner than Firefox does. Usually the pages 'saved' by Firefox
turn out to be totally useless; they have all the components EXCEPT the all-
important html code.
Other file types that I might want saved are quite unrecognised by at least
one of the versions. So what does it do when I ask it to load it? It asks me
what I want to do with it (several options) and when I hit 'save' it remembers
where I did that last and saves it faster than any other browser I have.
If the page code is relatively simple, Opera loads it quicker. Opera is also
not a memory hog like Firefox, nor does it try to outguess where I want to
go.
In one instance that you can relate to, your weekly pages; if I use the oldest
version of Opera I have, I get the text and images nearly filling the screen,
and the menu of all you other weeks is below, out of the way. All more
advanced browsers have the blog and menu side by side which results in
much of the RHS of most images being obscured by the menu. Yes, I 'could'
use a wider screen, but for reasons of ergonomics I don't do it.
When I am writing web-pages (I use Arachnophila - and have done for many
years), Opera 9.63 loads without any fuss for testing purposes. All the newer
browsers argue with me about not being on-line or some such quibble. Then
I hear the hard-drive working away as the browser does something or other
with the data - really, none of its business.
Opera just gets the job done, and quickly.
I don't subscribe to the theory that newer is better always. Sometimes Yes,
but not always. Some day soon I might post a pic of my favourite personal
car. It's 30 years old, and has features I really like for MY purposes that
modern cars just do not possess. For me, they fail. 30 years and >300,000
km on the clock.
Hmm; that rant turned out to be longer than anticipated.
Brian Swale
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