Opera! Opera! Opera!
Medievalist said:
Reph can't use FireFox; there isn't a version available for OS 9. She's pretty much limited to IE 5, Netscape Navigator, or Mozilla.
Or
Opera[/b].com/download/index.dml?platform=mac&ver=6.03]Opera 6.03.
Opera rocks, and there's a shortcut for everything imaginable (over 100 for browsing alone, and another 80 or so for other program-specific functions). It's a great browser for mouse-haters.
It's also good for folks with slow modems, because images are easy to toggle off an on with one keystroke, and those with bad eyes, as you can quickly transform someone's poorly designed page into a pure black on white version with a readable font.
Bookmarks/Favorites are a dream. Give them nicknames, then simply hit F2 and type the first few characters to go straight there.
F2 Ab takes me to Absolute Write, while
F2 Ba takes me to my banking site.
Highlight a word or phrase on the page and right-click, and you can search for it using your search engine of choice, look it up at the dictionary site you define (I like
www.Onelook.com), translate it, buy it....
And yes, it does the "Next Page/Page Forward" thing, even handling it well when the page
isn't specifically written to support the feature. Space takes you down a page at a time, like in IE, then takes you to the next logical page once you've reached the end.
All the neat things you can add to Firefox via plugins come standard with
Opera. And the whole (Mac format) download still weighs less than the Firefox package without the extras, coming in at 4 megabytes (or 3.6MB for the latest Windows version with included e-mail, news, IRC client, RSS reader...).
No, I'm not a paid
Opera shill, but it's a job I'd take in a heartbeat. I love
Opera. I spend more time using my browser than anything else other than my word processor.