Opera

[claidheamhmor]

So I'm back to Opera as my primary web browser. For some reason, after I upgraded my work machine to Windows 7, Maxthon's screen no longer refreshed properly; I couldn't find a solution. Next best option is Opera. I found a workaround for Maxthon's most missed feature, the "Open all links as background tabs", by mapping mouse middle-button to one of the side buttons; now I can click on the side button to open a link in the background.

I do miss some of Maxthon's other features, like the Ctrl-Click to instantly save an image, and IE compatibility, but Opera is a lot quicker, and I love the instant "back" reload. Still, it's good to be using a totally rock-solid browser.

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[filialucis]

The separate data partition is a holdover from Win98/2k days, actually; I got into the habit of having it that way because Win98 in particular was unstable enough that I had to reinstall the entire thing from scratch on several occasions. Win2k was better, but when it broke, it broke hard, and there were at least two occasions that I remember being VERY grateful for the separate data partition when the OS needed reinstalling and insisted that it was NOT going to be reinstalled without formatting the data partition.

XP seems to be safer... but I'm paranoid, and I'm still a shade more comfortable having my data and my OS in separate locations.

[claidheamhmor]

Yeah, I remember your fun from then.

Something I *really* like about Windows 7 is that when you install it as a new install (rather than upgrade) on a drive that already has another version of Windows installed (e.g. XP, 2000, Vista, even Windows 7), it very politely backs up the Windows, Program Files, Program Data (for Vista & up) and Docs and Settings or Users folders into a Windows.old folder, so that it's all there safe and sound for later retrieva.