On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:30, Fabian Hackhofer wrote: > Jorge Almeida schrieb: > > I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing > > doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless > > Brazilian links. > > Ever tried to type site:uk or site:us after the search-phrase?
I suspect that this is a google not FF issue. When I change countries I get responses relative to the (geographic) IP that I logon from. If you use a http proxy from another country do you still get Brazilian links? (google for public proxies to test this). Browser-wise I use Konqueror and Opera. I prefer Opera for speed (despite the fact that I am mostly connecting with ADSL) and for privacy - unlike gecko and Khtml engined browsers Opera does not divulge Referrer headers, unless you set it to do so. I have been using Opera for around 6 years and have found that they continuously develop this browser and it's features, while retaining a smaller footprint than any(?) other browser. They have developed a sometimes buggy mail client which along with a multitude of other clients (news, IM, SMS, etc) is integrated in a non-intrusive manner with the Opera browser. The Opera mail client database principle and its filters was effectively copied by Google after a few years and was implemented as the now well known Gmail. Every now and then I see one of Opera's features or functionality e.g. tabs being copied by other browsers. Opera continue development for many different platforms (I first came across Opera on a Psion 5mx!). Other than the sometimes buggy releases although Opera comes free for Linux, it is *not* open source. That said it has a big community following and great support through forums and ng. Konqueror has come in leaps & bounds over the last few years and is now the best stds compliant browser than the all the rest (check acid test 2). Since it integrates nicely with Kmail I tend to use it a lot when I browse links in messages, or when I have already launched other KDE apps and the associated kdeinit and kio-slaves are already running. Finally, I use FF when I come across websites that won't render properly in the other two browsers - invariably on stupidly designed internet banking sites which discriminate against anything other than M$IE & Netscape!!! HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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