Stop! Web Time!

[andrewducker]

EDIT: The Web is _anything in a browser_. If it's not in a browser then it's not the web. If you use a chat client that's browser-based, then that counts. If you use one that's a program, then it doesn't.

[Poll #1657175]

The reason I'm curious is Google's pushing of the Chrome laptops - which are designed to be web only. I know that a lot of my time is spent on the web nowadays, but I'm curious as to what percentage most people spend on it.

(Non-web usages of the computer are either playing non-web games (Dragon Age and Super Meat Boy this week) and watching videos - although that's mostly on Julie's PC, as it's in the bedroom.)

The second question is because there was a big battle over MS Office versus OpenOffice, and I realised that I don't really use Office at home since I stopped sending letters. I still have it (the joy of a brother who works for Microsoft), but I can't see me using it.

Comments

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Have the browser window split so you can view two or more webpages side by side, or above and below each other, etc. No doubt some browsers already allow this, and I thought Opera did, but I can't find the option if it does. You need to be able to look at one page while working in another, and that'd be a more elegant way to do it than by having two windows open.

[andrewducker]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4287/ will do it for Firefox. I've never used Opera for long enough to find the power user stuff.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it doesn't work for me. So I tried Tile Tabs which seems to do much the same thing, but it didn't work either! With both addons I noticed I couldn't open new windows after they were enabled, so I assume I've some setting set that stuffs them up equally. Can't think what though.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Found the problem - it's my virus-checker's extension that's not compatible with them. Remove it and Tile Tabs works, at least, as I'm sure Fox Splitter would.