Still playing with alternate browsers. Am doing this post using Mozilla, which plays with Blogger more nicely than Opera does, although it's still a little wonky.
Why all this playing with browsers? I've been brushing up on my CSS skills, which entails viewing pages in browsers other than the one that Micro$oft offers.
It's funny how you start noticing and remembering things about the software you use when you switch. Little things you take for granted, like placement of buttons, or how drop-down menus fold out, are suddenly just a bit different, just a bit "off" -- you're no longer surfing on cruise control.
I will say one thing about Opera and Mozilla -- they really are faster than IE, and less bloated (they aren't as big to download as IE is).
One really silly thing I've notice about Opera -- one of the browser settings is "Identify as Opera / Mozilla / MSIE" -- but the default setting is "Identify as MSIE". Duh! Wouldn't the folks at Opera want their software to identify itself correctly to servers, instead of propping up the competition? If people look at their site stats and keep seeing just "IE" being used by their visitors, won't they just keep assuming that's what everyone uses?
Whatever. Most of you have probably drifted off at this point to go read Fark or something, so I'll shut up now.