Opera Unite Beta: I Don’t Get It

Have you read about (or tried) the Opera Unite beta yet? Announced in the middle of June, the Opera folks say it will “reinvent the web.”  I’ve read the Opera articles and some reviews (for instance) but so far haven’t had the urge to try it out.

Frankly, I don’t think Unite is going to reinvent

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Of F11 and Browsers

A common browser keyboard shortcut that I’ve never used – nor properly cared about until recently – is F11. With most browsers, tapping F11 puts you into some variation of full screen mode. When using a tiny display or low resolution you might find this very helpful to maximize what you’re seeing.

To be clear, this

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Opera 9.50 (and Dragonfly for the Devs)

My favorite “not IE or Firefox” browser released a new version yesterday: Opera 9.5. Faster than ever and with a new look (finally!).

My favorite feature is the Opera Link. Bookmarks and such easily sync’d to all your Opera browsers. As I like to use Opera Mini on my windows mobile phone and have Opera

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Firefox 3: Most Visited

I thought the new location bar stuff was my favorite new Firefox 3 feature. While still a contender, it turns out I have a new fave — the “Most Visited” toolbar menu.

You can see it quietly lurking at the left side of the bookmarks toolbar:

I think it was there when I was trying the betas,

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Web Developer Extensions

For Firefox I keep both the Firebug and Web Developer extensions ever handy. Both have their strong points and complement each other nicely (in my mind).

For IE(7) I’m partial to the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. It is a pretty solid “mix” of the two Firefox offerings. Really not all that bad and worth having if

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