Unlikely - anyone who had the knowledge to do so would be using newer hardware, and therefore would have no desire to do so.

do you know of any open source software that has a "nice, polished" release? (i know you were referring to the translation, but i wanted to get at that bit) I've been in the open source arena since the mid 80's, and have yet to see any.

lol, um, no. alphas and betas are full of debugging facilities that will not be present in the final. as well as the code itself getting tweaked to run better.

I'm running Opera with 58 tabs open right now in one window, and 12 in another. 267MB. Hmm.

Open the Sidebar on whichever side you like to have your "Tabs". Turn off your Tab bar. Open the "Window List" in your sidebar.

Alternatively, you may now be able to move the tab bar to the sides, I've never tried.

... until you load both gmail and facebook at the same time in Chrome, and it sucks up all available memory on your system, and dies.

well, you have no extra clicks with the single button menu bar, because you click on it once, find the thing you want to select, and click on it again. Same with the old system. (the sub menus auto-open) Also, how many things in the menu do you ever ACTUALLY use? I've used perhaps two things on the Opera menu in the last year, that I can think of. Tools->Advanced->Cookies, and Tools->Appearance. Once for each one. Everything else, I'm not sure that I've used in several years. I actually just turned off hte menu bar, realising now that I can do that in 10.0, without going to the INI files to do it.

Win 7 is great, if you switch the Taskbar back to XP style, IMO. Although I'm not really a big fan of the super small title bars.. I guess I'll get over it.

Who cares where the source code is? Are you a competent dev?

The more you use good non-open source software (when you can find it) the more you will realise that there is not a single piece of good open source software, at least, nothing in the popular ranks.

... the tab browsing that Opera had long before anyone else. Firefox is a giant Frankenbrowser mish mash of crap with no clear focus as to what they are trying to achieve. It is horribly slow, and sucks a metric assload of memory.

Not true. The people who were responsible for this laughable attempt at "banning" "illegal gambling" (without defining "illegal gambling", so no one actually has any idea what it's banning), were not in the pocket of Vegas. Vegas wants to be in on it, but it's not clearly legal. Vegas wants it to be defined.

unlikely, my machine is currently setup for quad boot, XP x86, Ubuntu, 7 x86, and 7 x64.

You are aware that there were a service pack or two for Vista, as well as monthly patches?

I jumped from 32-bit XP to 64-bit 7. The taskbar is freaking amazing. It's almost an ideal interface, as far as I can tell now. The ability to re-arrange the tasks on the tab by standardly moving them around, is fantastic. I do like the little Pin thing. About the only things that I wish I cuold do is have the Tray as a seperate bar, and to lower the amount of spacing between things in the tray. Other than those two things, the tray and taskbar in Win 7 are fantastic.

It would be JUST as easy for a retard who doesn't understand what they are doing at all, to infect a Linux machine, if there were a useful and proper method of installing 3rd party software in Linux. But, there isn't.

Oh, right, there's no method for installing 3rd party software. Oops.