Almost Somewhere

Wow. It feels like ages have past since I started waiting for Opera 9.5. Ever since trying the beta, I have been feeling such a need for the Opera Link feature where you can synchronize bookmarks and speed dials. Opera has always been the ideal complete browser for me – except for these last few months where it lags behind with the online bookmarks service still in beta, whereas I tried that kind of functionality first in AvantBrowser.

In the mean time, I found Foxmarks, speed dial, and mouse gestures extensions for Firefox and made the move. It’s Foxmarks that’s the deciding factor. At the same time, I use BookmarkBridge to synchronize all my bookmarks across all three browsers. Foxmarks becomes the link for the other two PCs. I also use IE7 Pro in IE to get most of the feature (and then some) that I miss from Opera.

So, now with Opera 9.5 released, bye bye Firefox, I think. We’ll see. Firefox seems pretty nice with all the extensions. I didn’t like Firefox 3 Beta though because I couldn’t make it like Opera. See, my criteria for a good web browser is simple: it can at least be made to emulate Opera in terms of usability. Well, you can surely guess what’s the perfect browser for me…
No more time. The download of Opera 9.5 has just been completed. Time to write has ended. Time to enjoy now begins… Maybe I’ll post a review if I can find the time…