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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I only tried 9.5 on XP and Vista, so your mileage may vary, but here are my impressions and some a few informations: [ulist]* About the new default theme: Simply put, this is the first time I ever keep a default theme. Bye bye Fisher Price look & feel. Welcome slick UI. Sure it has a few inconsistencies here and there but it is MUCH more inviting than the old one ( which never stayed more than 1 minute on my various installs ). I regret a bit that the Tabs toolbar has not been thought to work vertically ( when positionned on the Left or Right ). Wide screens are rather common nowadays and vertical screen estate becomes scarse compared to horizontal one. Well either that, or I'm getting old. * The Quick Find ( [i]aka[/i] the Awesomer address bar ) just feels natural. The indexation of the actual content of the pages ( which you can disable if you will, in [b]Preferences > Adavanced > History[/b] ) makes a BIG difference over what we've seen in the past. * I don't remember that in 9.2 the page Info panel listed the Navigation links, Style sheets, Scripts and IFRAMEs. This is quite useful to analyse a page and block content. Although for content blocking I would like to have a "Block Content" entry in the contextual menu when clicking the links in the Info panel. * [url=http://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly/][b]DragonFly[/b][/url] ( in [b]Advanced > Tools > Developer tools[/b] ) is finally out in the wild. Being in alpha, it's not yet possible to edit things live. However being able to inspect the CSS, DOM, objects and scripts and set breakpoints in web pages and widgets is a life saver for web developers and designers. Exit the old school error console debugging. * Link now synchronize the Notes, which can be useful to synch a ToDo list, a Shopping list, or a monster post on the Asylum without even thinking about it. ;) * M2, the built-in mail client, now uses its own thread to not choke the browser when fetching big mails/feeds or doing IMAP transactions. Notice that on first start up after upgrading from 9.2 the mails are converted to the new format. This can take a while if you have thousands or hundreds of thousands of mails.[/ulist] And of course, there is the better standards support and the speed improvements. Clearly I'm glad 9.5 is out. It's a LOT better than 9.2. I'm also looking forward to FireFox 3, scheduled for June 17th. They've done a tremendous job since FF 2. [b]Tyberius Prime:[/b] ;) 83/100 on Acid3 is still respectable. There was some discussion at work today about enabling the Fraud Protection by default. And I'm convinced this is a sane default. Those who really need this protection would most likely not be able to fiddle in some menus to enable it. The others, the nerds like us, will find their way in. [b]CPrompt:[/b] These sound like Unix specific bugs as I've not had such problems. :( [url=http://www.p01.org/][img]http://poi.ribbon.free.fr/files/p01_ozoneasylum_sig_teapot.png[/img][/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2185]poi[/url] on 06-13-2008 02:21)[/small] Loading...
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