After all this testing, IMO:
- Opera
- Maxthon
- Firefox
Was using Avant and some BS virus scan screen popped up. Avira caught it as a virus. This was with the pop-up blocker active.
The others are too slow, or are not very customizable.
Opera 10 beta 2 is out today. A lot of improvements…
Old Maxthon 3.0 news:
http://blog.maxthon.com/?p=267
That blog was from April, so its hard to know when 3.0 will be out. But apparently my main issue (browsing speed) is a focus. I can’t wait. I think it will be the best browser out if it has increased speed but keeps most of the features in 2.5.
what’s the best browser for low end mac?
I’m not sure if Dropbox has been posted up, yet. If not, it should be.
https://www.getdropbox.com/screencast#screencast
Secure online backups, works on Windows/Mac/Linux, and it’s all in real time and functions just like a regular folder on your machine. I’ve been using it for a while now for transferring files to friends/family when attachments in emails wouldn’t do.
Free Video Zilla is exactly what I needed. Its just like Maxthon’s built-in file sniffer, and snatches vids and music off of sites for just about any browser.
Between this and Opera 10, I’m set. Don’t need another browser now… 'least until Maxthon 3 is out.
Microsoft has something similar, its called mesh. (www.mesh.com) Online access to files, 5 GB storage and Remote Desktop!
WinSplit Revolution was exactly what I was looking for. It orients windows to however you like, so you can for example have 2 web browser windows next to each other, and it’s done by hot-keys, so you don’t have to move and size the windows manually.
Hold Ctrl+Alt and press any of the 9 number keys, and it will orient the window. Use 4 to have the window placed by the left side of the screen, 6 to the right, 5 to center, 7 for upper left, etc.
But I wish you could do this with full-screen videos, so you could have 4 videos playing, each in their own software’s full-screen mode, split 4 ways on the monitor.
And it won’t maximize the window by Ctrl+Alt+5, but keep it windowed but stretched to almost cover all 4 corners of the monitor.
I’m liking BT Work Space for project organizing and Page Flakes for web content management. Is anyone using something they like better that’s still browser base? https://signup.btworkspace.com/Step1.aspx
Checked out Comodo’s antivirus. Its alright.
The initial definitions update takes forever, and usually hangs at 30%.
Otherwise, I’ve removed Avira and now use Comodo for both my firewall and virus protection with Comodo Internet Security.
The great thing is now I only have one icon in my system bar on startup now.
Check it, guys:
A few useful tools. The font manager is probably the best I’ve seen, and I’ve tried them all.
His image viewer is great, but animated gifs are still images.
Still have to try the windows manager and text viewer.
More free utilities:
http://myadarola.blizzle.com/pub/methodik/
The NoBar is my fave, as I’ve opted to customize my desk again and use rocketdock. It completely eliminates yours Windows taskbar, and runs in the background silently… killing the taskbar automatically every time it ever comes back.
Recent update to SMplayer officially (imo) makes it the best video player out. All the issues it had before are fixed, and now you can stream TV/radio with it. Only complaint is its startup time has gotten slow, but since it takes up under 20k in memory footprint, its all good.
I’ve also decided to make Google Chrome my secondary browser. The 3.0 beta is eons better than when Chrome first started.
On the hunt for a new image viewer again…
LOL, man… I got this thread on my back.
Jet Audio is amazing. Its come a loooong way, and its no wonder downloads are through the roof on download.com.
It plays both audio and video, but unlike most audio players with video support, it actually puts effort into being a video player. It has codecs built in, can change subtitles, filters, take screenshots, and virtually everything the typical standalone video player does.
It has a music manager mode that allows you to manage and organizae your music library and sync with your MP3 device.
It has tools for audio conversion, video conversion, audio trimming, CD ripping/burning, and audio recording.
It also has stylish skins and isn’t bloatware.
Must have!
i know this is not a request thread but does anyone know a free software to view djvu files (they are like pdfs but smaller) in a slideshow like the windows picture and fax viewer.
-edit- IrfanView with plugin
LOL you ARE the thread man. Someone needs to keep bumping it.
WinDjView is lightweight and good for viewing djvu files in tabs. the DjView from djvulibre seems to run faster tho. djvulibre has command line stuff for converting but i dont mess with that.
Pdf To Djvu GUI v. 2.0 http://www.trustfm.net/GeneralTools/SoftwarePdfToDjvuGUI.php does what the name says and is not that bad at it.
you can also use http://djvu.org/any2djvu/ to convert pdfs, etc to djvu and it is the smallest size with highest quality for doc files and fastest encoding, but you have to upload to their servers to convert. (btw it converts a 1mb file to something like 46 kbs. in general djvu is much smaller but thier method is best for docs)
there is also document express 7 enterprise but it is not freeware; however, you can use the 60 day trial and convert all you want. this one seems to give better conversion for images.
Sweet now I can play Xcom UFO Defense on Vista. I been trying to figure that shit out for the past hour. Ty sir, I LOVE this thread.
Sorry for double post but this thread needs bumpage and I wanted to contribute something. I was looking around for alternate icons, and i found an interesting site that I don’t think has been mentioned in here yet.
Modding Windows has a lot of useful stuff including a sweet alternate icons for Firefox
Bump.
Useful thread is useful.
adblock add-on for firefox, made by vladimir something. Also do that subscription thing when you are prompted to after you get the add-on, it is the best thing you can ever do for yourself. You could just make a long list of common ad addresses but it would take you about like 5 months assuming you were an advance user and knew exactly what you were doing. No more ads telling me how to enlarge my body parts 6 inches, and it feels great.
Also try BugMeNot addon for firefox so you dont have to join every website you visit once every couple of months or something like that, just right click username or password box of a relatively popular website or try it with a slightly unpopular one and it will log you in under someone else’s user provided name and password.
Well come to think of it, it aint that useful. I can log onto some news website without having to join but lots of other websites either have these usernames or passwords blocked, which makes me somewhat mad but for the other sites I go to, I dont want to have to go through the pain process of joining so Ill get over it I guess.
I recently discovered this nice site for people with flash drives: http://portableapps.com
I put Firefox Portable on my drive so I can watch FMA Brotherhood at work. 
This is sort of off-topic, but can anyone recommend a fast read/write flash drive, or all they all the same?