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by dezzeus
3628 days ago
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You get my attention and curiosity; it is a browser, what were the "features" that you are talking about ? At some point I've read that it had an e-mail client, later externalized; if those are the "feature", so I'm also ok with that, as I'm more into Vim than emacs. That's my point.
If you're referencing something else, I'm curious. :) |
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The mail client also doubles as an RSS reader client.
Aside from that, it also has mouse gestures that are core in the browser, not bolted on with JS addons, which means they work consistently, everywhere, and fast. Gestures i do a lot: Right-click + wheel to change tabs, hold right tap left to go back, hold left tap right to go forward, and various hold rought and move mouse gestures to open new tabs, close tabs, move up a level, etc.
Then there's the performance and memory efficiency. I have 100+ tabs open and the thing sits at 2 GB with my email story as well. Right-click + wheel scrolls me through tabs at basically display refresh rate, chrome can't even switch that fast.
A very powerful url blocker that can be configured per-domain is built in, and is faster than any kind of js-based addon could ever dream of.
I can actually manually edit menu and toolbar ini files and even add macros and javascript bits right there. For example i use that to add menu entries to right-click on links to open those links in other browsers.
I can edit text-based style descriptor files with additional image files to completely restyle the browser effortlessly.
Getting to the screen where i can view and edit cookies for the active page directly takes me 3 clicks.
I can configure activation, deactivation of js, plugins (flash, etc.), even animated images per site with 3 clicks, globally with 2 or a hotkey. I can tell plugins like flash to load on demand, i.e. only when i click on them or tell the page to start loading plugins by clicking in the adress bar.
I can add browser-wide custom css, or site-specific custom css, again, 3 clicks.
I can disable all CSS for the active page with one click.
It has a note-taking facility built-in that doubles as "richer" bookmark manager, and also serves to give strings for auto-complete suggesting when typing in input fields.
It has one-button keyboard shortcuts, e.g. "seach in page" is "." for me.
I can have a vertical tab bar and a horizontal one at the same time.
I can open a list of all links on the current page, filter it by various conditions, select the ones i want and hit "download these to a folder" in one action.
I can add custom panels in the side panel by adding urls there, which is where i keep a bunch of "translate this word" things.
And that's just scratching the surface. I could go on for a long time. And keep in mind: It has all this stuff in it, and excluding JS engine performance, still outperforms Chrome and Firefox. JS being slower and SSL compatibility slowly going kaput are the only actual downsides.