Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

• swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And the ability to switch browser engines on the fly. That was a great feature.

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  • philpo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And it has some options to interpret data following strict W3C standards. Which was incredibly helpful when learning, as it encouraged me (and a lot of others) to don’t go down the IE/Netscape and later Chrome “specialities” road. (Yes,I am that old…I still remember MS fucking FrontPage)

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    • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I remember that! Standards mode vs compatibility mode. That was a great feature, too. Opera was unique.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    User agent spoofing, tabs back when nobody had them, sidebar…

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• wfh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  gestures!

  Still the reason that 20+ years later the second thing I install on any browser is a gestures extension (the first one is always uBlock Origin, obviously).

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