...chargin'

one of these days these boots are gonna charge your gadgets too.

Thanks for all the work and passion- and thanks for fighting to keep the experience what it (mostly) always has been.

-meant to include this in previous post.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/06/news/companies/cable_bill_cost_increase/index.htm

Doesn't seem like he's getting ripped off

I understand, preferences are preferences, but tabs on top always made the most sense to me. The address bar is an attribute of the current tab that you looking at. Going back and forth in history, all are functions within the context of the tab- so it makes sense that the address bar isn't global. ...but like I said, preferences are preferences.

I had the same same setup. Plus, I had the first generation models that still had commercial advance built into it. Those were the days. I dumped it because I was tired of the hacked IR/remote solution and just went with cable provided PVR, which I regret now, although I did have an experience with Moxi DVR via my cable provider that I did enjoy. That was a decent UI

replayTV was around before Tivo, I had one and loved it.

Or a better "digital wallet" -paypal-like in functionality.

Innovation.

I don't do much work on my mobile phone anyway, but browsing the web, and doing quick queries, I do ALL THE TIME and I have my phone in my pocket all the time too. It's a natural fit- I only use my laptop a couple times a week nowadays.

I do usability for a living, and know that consistency and 'expected" behavior/locations are very important. I'm at odds though on things like this- the reason I use Opera is because I like that the UI is a little different. I like that Chrome and Opera are willing to try something different in their UIs- frankly, that's one of the things I really like about Chrome is the absent menu bar. I've turned it off of my Opera installs for as long as I've been able to, (and I have a FF plugin as well doing the same)

I paid for Opera back in those days. Sure a free browser is nice, but I'm willing to by software, particularly software I use 99.0% of the time I'm on my computer. I always viewed it as: what's it worth to me to have a browser with mouse gestures and tabbed browsing et al? Certainly the price of a couple of meals at TGI/Applebees/Shenanigans

Free and crappy/boring wasn't as good a deal as the 20 or 30 bucks I paid for the best UI out there at the time.

Amen brother- to me, the built in mouse gestures and cached history and customizable interface, the many milliseconds I've saved with those features alone are worth the random milliseconds of rendering time or scripting.

Me too. "Security" is an earned label that, for whatever the reason (coding, smaller market share, etc) Opera has earned. I don't particularly care that Firefox is more open with disclosing bugs than Opera may be, the bottom line is that since 2000 I've used Opera with nothing but confidence.

The original intention of my post *was* UI overhead in the context of in car distractions.

That's how I think it will play out as well. That's some good insight there Lou- consider that my +1 mod