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fno | 17 years ago | on: A week without Google Search

Try search.yahoo.com I find it quite good. In some nichees Yahoo is far better than Google (won't mention them because I am a tinfoil hat privacy freak, sorry). Also it seems to index XML (eg when used with XSLT) much more likely than Google.

fno | 17 years ago | on: CSS3 Unleashed - Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Contrary to what the headline might suggest, this is just a list of links to interesting articles.

fno | 17 years ago | on: Mix tunes for power coding sessions

How about some truly free music? Mixsets are a grey area.

Give http://www.professorkliq.com/ a try (if you don't like IDM just like me, don't worry about the "kliq"). http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Professor_Kliq

fno | 17 years ago | on: Tell HN: Just launched SquatNot.com for free domain classifieds

Apart from the "squat not" theme this seems like a generic domain trade site. What would be the benefit to other domain trade services?

The escrow link on http://squatnot.com/about/ is buggy.

The design wastes vertical screen. The listing starts in the middle of the screen and I only see 3 sites on 1024x768.

fno | 17 years ago | on: Revenue / Browser on mibbit

Firefox still is awefully slow on Linux. I switched to Opera rather recently (~6 months?) because of this. Thanks to Opera's amazing session saver and the quick end/restart cycle I find it much less a pain in the backside than Firefox if it gets hoggy (not that it ever did that for me, sometimes it slows down for some reason though).

fno | 17 years ago | on: Revenue / Browser on mibbit

Opera has some content blocker built in. Rightclick on a website and select "Block Content". It supports wildcards. I guess most people who use content blocking have Adsense blocked. You can disable it per-site too (rightclick -> site preferences).

I too suspect a high number of Opera users to be very technical experienced.

Also I think Opera users are more prone to be quite cautious about being tracked online. I know several guys who stopped using Firefox and went to Opera since Firefox so prominently bundles Google with it.

Last but not least, choosing to use Opera is an active decision. IE/Safari/Firefox (Ubuntu etc.) are default browsers. Opera is not. So there is a high chance that the user uses it for a specific reason. Not something "John Doe" would do for "his internet".

fno | 17 years ago | on: Opera boycott

I think this is my first comment here, so please excuse me if it is too plain but

This seems like a typical flamebait. Nothing of value, nothing to think about, nothing but childish hate (or maybe simply attention/backlink whoring).