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I just read a quick review of Firefox 2.0. I am not terribly impressed — with Firefox itself, or the review for that matter:

The first thing that stands out in the new Firefox is the more modern, snappier look and feel. Everything is more shinny, more playful and more clickable.

Can anyone tell me what this means? This is followed by:

Tabbed browsing was a major browser innovation that Firefox popularized

I would be trying out Opera 9 beta right about now, but it appears that the cookies bug described here has been made worse with Opera 9 Beta. The workaround no longer works at all.

I posted as much here. I’m hoping this gets fixed soon — I wasn’t surprised to see this in a technology preview, but it’s a little unnverving to see it in a beta. It’s a minor issue, but one that prevents me from trying it out.

Looks like the Opera 9 Beta is out.

Get it while it’s hot!

A concise history of Opera’s ACID2 results. Pretty funny. (And impressive!)

The problem I alluded to in my brief review of Opera 9.0 TP2 is simple: In the site-specific preferences, if you set the default to “Never accept cookies” — it does just that, ignoring your site-specific exclusions. This appears to be because although the option to honor your site-specific prefs is still there, they just .. forgot to let you select it in the UI.

So, as discussed here, all you have to do is manually edit your opera6.ini to set your cookie preferences how you want them and leave it alone. The table of values for “Enable Cookies” can be found here.