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Originally Posted by rubicon
Your points are valid but it's free software. I find it hard to complain about anything given away with no strings attached.
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I agree somewhat with you. I mean, the Mozilla devs do make a good free product and they should be recognized for giving something for users to have as an alternative to naked IE. But the point of being an advanced user, IMO, is to get the best stable apps that don't eat tons of resources. No browser should use this much RAM unless you're viewing a 100 jpgs in a thread on the Titty Board.
Really cool things about slimbrowser:
It has the google toolbar like ff but it does one better: you can very easily create your own search engine plugins. I have a plugin for TFP's Search, one for [H] forums, one for the password thing (the mk.php thing) from Links Board, and I made one for IRCspy to replace the one from Mycroft in Firefox. I can search forums from any page and save a couple clicks (and page loads) for those forums in the process. Granted you can do this with a jscript bookmarklet but this is much easier to do.
Close a window or group by accident? go to Edit and Undo Last Close or undo last close all.
It has a little FTP client for uploads to your site with it's own little UI.
You can restore the last group of tabs that was closed if you had to quickly close your browser for whatever reason-It doesn't have to be bookmarked or from a crash like FF.
It supports Skins.
You can add trusted popups easily by Recover Popup in the toolbar and add it with a whitelist in a single click instead of having to go into options like in FF.
A built-in script pad that can edit HTML, Jscript, VBscript, or plain text for notes on the sidebar. You can copy and manipulate etext without having to switch to notepad and have the page you're copying right there.
You can hide windows that are open so your gf or roommates can't see a tab you want hidden if they get on your PC.
You can select Proxies without using Proxy Switch Toolbar like in FF.
These are just a few things I like most about this browser. There are much much more and it has almost everything FF does, and definitely everything important.
I also would would like to hear from others who choose the alternative to the alternative as well. I know being "anti-firefox" isn't a popular thing these days.