Moz 1.3:
Just typical! I go and upgrade to Mozilla 1.2.1 yesterday, and today 1.3 final comes out.
I hadn’t been spending time in Mozilla lately, and thought I’d upgrade to 1.2.1 while I was at it. I have to reiterate that there’s no substitute for tabbed browsing, I use IE6 plenty, and XP’s taskbar grouping function is a worthwhile feature, but it’s so much quicker to click on the tab you want, than to sift through a column of grouped taskbar items.
With tabs I can organise my browsing/thinking by dedicating separate windows to specific functions/topics - e.g. having one window just for the news sites, or another window for all the blogs, or one window for everything related to certain item I’m researching.
Backgroud loading of links is also a time-saver. Clicking on links while you’re reading through an article/site, and having them load in the background, without popping up new windows that will have to be dealt with before getting back to what you were doing, is definitely helpful.
One of the areas where Mozilla just doesn’t cut it for me is with browsing image galleries like DeviantArt, or Intertia. Here I like to stop the page from loading as soon as the basic layout is done, and then load just the thumbnails of my choice by left-clicking, and hitting ‘h’, and then decide if I want to click through to the full image (in Moz you only have the option of loading the full image). This way I don’t spend time downloading ad banners, or buttons images that I’m not going to need. Ahh yes, the joys of life on 56k!
