hi all, just started using opera and on HWF i keep getting logged off everytime i go between catagories and individual posts and back again, is there a way to stop this (bloody annoying) i know how to do it in IE and FF but cant find it in opera. forget it, i'll just use FF, can admin pls delete this post
No, don't go back to Firefox Have you altered the cookie settings at all? Perhaps if you choose 'remember me' when you log in, this problem won't happen
why ? though FF was better, but if YOU say so! _______________________________________ no it didn't work, so back on FF
Well ultimately it comes down to personal preference. If you prefer Firefox then use it! However I feel that Opera is the superior browser overall. There have been far fewer security vunerabilities when compared to Firefox and Internet Explorer. Not only that, but Opera loads web pages far faster then any other browser. It's got a clean interface that makes the most of the tabbed interface feature. It can be customised to your heart's content and is fully skinnable. Opera 9 beta has introduced widgets too. Although so far I have to say i'm unconvinced. They are a bit gimmicky and pointless to be honest - not in the same league as Firefox's extensions. I am not knocking Firefox, it's a very good browser.
i know IE's got more security holes than a pack of polos, what do you reckon to netscape or is that :swear: crap too
Oh, you mean Nutscrape It's terrible I was an avid Netscape user up to version 7.2. It was a very good browser. However version 8 is just a bloated skin for Internet Explorer. Needless to say, all of the security vunerabilities in IE are inherited into Netscape. My advice: Leave it well alone!
Firefox is open-source. I helped review and suggest changes in the code for the download manager (still not perfect I know). For me, Opera proprietary while good. Firefox is just a bit foxier.
i think Firefox should ditch their download manager and start again. I'd like to see it incorporated as a tab, much like how Opera's download manager works. One thing I really like about Firefox is the way it handles RSS feels. I can lay them all out across my personal toolbar and access the feeds from the drop down menu that appears when you click an RSS feed.
An RSS feed is a live bookmark. If I choose to bookmark an RSS feed, a bookmark folder is created under the name of the website. In that folder will be bookmarks that get updated and changed automatically. Hardware Forums has an RSS feed. I don't have to visit HWF to see if there are any new threads. Instead, I can just look at the HWF feed for any new threads! If you are using Firefox or Opera, click the orange RSS button to accept the HWF feed
RSS = Really Simple Syndicate. It uses a special XML markup which updates itself every time there is new news, threads or just about anything. HWFs uses it to provide new thread alerts. In firefox click the orange icon in the address bar in HWFs, and save it to your bookmarks toolbar, or your bookmarks menu. I have it in menu. Then click it (or hover if its in menu) and you'll see a list of new threads. It updates itself every few minutes, you can manually update it by right clicking>reload.
so, if i understand correctly an RSS is basically a link to a "website" that bypasses the login page ?
An RSS feed will usually provide quick links to pages in a single website, for example a news website will use RSS so that a visitor can click the appopriate headline in the RSS feed and it will take it to the relevant page in the website. They don't usually go to different websites.
