Re: The demise of the Oracle professional?

Galen Boyer wrote:
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> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, cboyle_at_hargray.dot.com wrote:
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> > WWW.opera.com If for no other reason than the mouse gestures but
> > multiple windows instead of multiple instances is a big plus to me
>
> Here Here! Opera is pretty damn slick.

Pretty awesome little browser. It does have some issues on my box, though. :(

  Seems to have issues with sites
> that have frames and other little minor nits.

I am dubious about that but perhaps you are correct. I hang on the Opera ng and most problems are due to noncompliance code or IE-only stuff, or browser sniffers that only sniff for IE and NN and lock out Opera.

  But, I use it all the
> time for my Oracle research. It really helps to be able to drill
> through a site's documentation and have access to the different links
> you opened up, all in one interface.

Yeh that MDI beats SDI any day. I can have like 20 graphics-filled windows all downloading at once. They are all going fast, and Opera rarely crashes. It just amazing.
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> The downloading is REALLY fast too.

I am sticking with the old 5.12 because I have found Opera 6.03 to be slow, resource-hungry and a bit unstable. Received on Wed Jun 19 2002 - 22:03:52 CDT