Okay, so maybe this isn't the last post from Firefox

Just a quick update on the switch-over. One big complication, due to the fact that I post the same blog content on both Blogger and Tumblr, is the fact that Tumblr's "new text" page--i.e. the one for a written blog entry--didn't want to render on the desktop (which I've been too lazy to update from the Gutsy Gibbon flavor of Ubuntu Linux). Kind of a deal-breaker, that.

A few other things about Opera that I don't like so much:

• Adding an icon to the system tray. That's just presumptuous. The system tray's for operating system stuff, not applications.
• Imported Firefox bookmarks shunted off to the side in another folder, like they're the red-headed step-children of URL favorites.
• For all its friendliness, it makes the same mistake of IE 7 and Firefox 3+ in wasting vertical space with a tab for a single web page. (Something I never understood and think that those responsible for that design should be forced to browse the web with Eees until such negligence is rectified.
• Similar to Firefox, the Google toolbar is baked in by default. But I have a bigger beef with that on Firefox, of course--open source is supposed to be about control, after all.
  
• Bookmarks (Amazon, eBay, Ask.com, etc.) that can't be deleted (or at least rearranged), presumably because they were paid for.

Okay, so that last gripe's just whiny. So's the Google toolbar, really. Opera's gotta keep the lights on somehow, after all.

But for anything to do with A/V or Java applets? Opera's the go-to browser, hands down. I mean, it'll play .WMV files like they're running in Windows. I've downloaded a bunch of software for Linux--standalone players, not inside the web browser--and that's never, ever worked for me. Under Opera, it's just plain magic.

Which all makes for yet another anecdotal illustration of why there's no such thing as One True Way for problem-solving. And software, ultimately, is made to solve problems.