frustration

I just wrote a two thousand-ish word post on the livejournal website only to have my browser revert back to a previous page because for some combination of keys I pressed. The whole day's post down the drain just like that. Apparently the 'restore from saved draft' option doesn't work properly on the opera browser. I don't fee like writing something I've written all over again, so I guess I'll have to write a brand new post. 

Just in case you were interested, the post was about how amazon was selling the android G1 for fifty something dollars, which is a ridiculously cheap price for a fully featured smartphone. If you're in the market you probably should get it. 

I've been using opera as the personal browser of choice for a while now. Of course, firefox still remains my browser of choice for all the work related stuff due to the bevy of science related extensions I can no longer live without (zotero and evernote, etc etc, programs that makes automatic bibliography of the resources I pool into the browser off and online, with full notation engine for any kind of file format including pdf, and I'm not even going to begin with the full journal article search engine I can build into the FF itself using extensions). Yet the sad reality is that while firefox is the swiss army knife of web browsers it's fast becoming rather unwieldy with its large memory/processor footprint and slow startup time. I've also used google chrome for a while (for all their faults, I like google and the weird products they keep on pumping out) but for some reason chrome gets ridiculously slow when you leave the browser window open for a long time, something that's unacceptable on a modern laptop with dedicated graphics card and top of the line processor. I think it might have something to do with the processor intensive architecture of their browser itself. Hopefully they'll iron out the faults soon, since the chrome browser really is blazingly fast compared to the competition. 

For some strange reason, Opera browser is capable of maintaining the smallest memory/processor cycle with multiple tabs compared to the competition, considering how many functions are built into the browser itself (torrent engine, irc, etc etc). I did a little tweaking with proxy engine (also built into the browser itself) so opera is now ad-free as well. The interface to make that happen is a little bit clunky compared to the simple button interface of the adblock plus extension on the firefox, but it works.