Widget Addiction

[ffutures]

Opera (the browser, not the art form) seems to be suffering from a slight case of feeping-creature-itis at present, in the form of "widgets", introduced a version or two ago, little applets that you can shove into it for e.g. currency conversion, news feeds, a small planetarium, etc. Fun, but probably not as useful as a dedicated program or site.

The one I'm going to have to delete, however is pipepanic, which is of course a pipe mania game, and as addictive as they always are. Shame, because it's very well done, but I'm wasting way too much time on it. Just one more game before it goes...

Comments

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

I love Opera, but stopped using it a few months ago as it started having major problems with the indexing of my multiple e-mail and news accounts, and was just getting slower and slower and then suddenly just stopped working. I ended up finding a Firefox extension that allows me to check multiple gMail accounts at a time and have been using that and RSS Reader instead.

I've been considering going back to it lately, because I truly do love the interface and integration, but as you say it suffers from the the kitchen sink just waiting to be thrown in there.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The thing is that Opera has one thing I particularly like and can't find in any other browser - if you change the magnification of a page it expands graphics as well as text. This is VERY useful for (for example) working out what HTML will look like on a low-resolution monitor without changing your monitor settings, trying to work out what someone is selling on ebay when they don't give enough information, etc.

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

I've always liked that feature too, and it shouldn't really be that hard for someone to have a Firefox extension to do the same.