So here I am having to adjust to the old 233Mhz PII with 32mb ram Dell and a whopping 3gb drive... since I did a fresh install of Win98 (have yet to find a linux flavour that runs well on such poor specs) I started to look for some new things to play with. First stop was Mozilla for Firefox. Those Firefox fanboys can be so loud that I thought there might actually be something to it. After downloading I started looking for ways to speed it up (Fasterfox plugin), maximize browser space (new theme), do mouse gestures (another plugin), and have the BlogThis button (yet another plugin). Then I had to restart and could really start playing with it. Initial impressions: meh.
Net install: Thunderbird. I mean, It's got to be at least as good as Outlook Express. Got it installed and, yup, it's as good as Outlook Express... but no better. Impression: meh.
So then I think, Opera is free now... I can go get Opera 8.0 and have both email and browsing in one app. My only fear is that it would be too slow. Got it freshly installed and imported all the prefs from Thunderbird. No problems. No issues. Looks good. Tabs automatically. Didn't have to install plugins to do all these things (except the BlogThis Button). And it is indeed faster.
Impression: Rawks!
So here's to Opera. I know you don't do everything (mlxchange and point2agent but neither did Mozilla and I can keep IE around for those tasks) but I forgive you for all the joy an happiness you bring. I sound like such a geek.
Now if I can find a decent WYSIWYG editor to replace my downed Dreamweaver... Need to work on some templates which will work with Joomla.
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