How many times has Google been launching "a social network" (or "social integration")? First there's Orkut (failed), and then FriendFeed and its Blogger integration, and then Google Buzz (major fail!), now this Google Me. Just buy out Facebook (or Zynga, or both) and be done with it.

I too hate variable scoping in Javascript, even PHP is slightly better in that variables are local inside functions. There are other small annoyances too. But the biggest is: Javascript has been given monopoly on the client side for too long. I wonder how much better can the Web be if there were more competition on the client-side browser language.

Did so a long time ago. Opera still crashes and freezes a lot.

Also I wonder, Firefox etc also has Flash/plugins. Why don't these other browsers crash a lot too like Opera then?

$ grep kill ~/.bash_history | grep opera | tail -5

killall -9 opera

killall -USR2 opera

killall -9 opera

killall -9 -9 -9 opera

killall -9 opera

$ grep kill ~/.bash_history | grep opera | wc -l

175

I've used Opera for years since the 5.x days and have always loved it, but the past year it's generally becoming less stable and more annoying. It always seems to eat 100% cpu after some time, or crash at other times. Some builds are really terrible, stability- and performance-wise. Meanwhile Firefox is getting faster and faster and more stable and I'm finding myself opening Firefox more and more often.

However (unfortunately?), nothing comes close in handling lots of open tabs like Opera.

Stop writing Perl as PERL please, it hurts my eye.

Yeah I know it's planned to be in 8.4 and there are hacks to do it in the current version. But it's ironic that "the world's most advanced open source database" doesn't have this feature, which is supposedly pretty basic and crucial in a relational database system. While the "toy" database that everybody loves to hate, Access, has had this for what, centuries?