First off, I'm in a bind, because I want to write a Greasemonkey plugin to tweak SpaceO into having keyboard shortcuts - e.g., M for galaxy map, R for ranking, enter for 'navigate here', and also a key to refresh without popping the question, 'do you want to resend?'.** However, I'm having issues getting greasemonkey to work on epiphany, and firefox is just too d**n slow. Here's a quick breakdown for browsers for SpaceO:
Epiphany: Lightning fast, and beautiful
Opera: Lightning fast, but not so beautiful (and also rendering errors), and it's user scripting bit (greasemonkey-like) is exclusive to Opera, meaning if you write a plugin for opera, it's stuck in opera, and opera's proprietary software ==> evil.
Seamonkey: This is the old mozilla suite. Based on netscape, it's a touch faster than firefox, and I think it's compatable with alot of Firefox plugins.
Firefox: Slow, even on an empty profile (some of you might be interested in adding --profile-manager to the launch command). If you want to see an example of what Greasemonkey can do for a plain UI, look no further than the following links (in order, the actual Greasemonkey plugin and the Advanced Google Keys script for that)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748[url]http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5711[url]
Internet Explorer: Maybe an older version might be fast - - I haven't actually tried the newest version, with all the catch-up they played to firefox. IE sucks. When I see older, less computer literate people using IE, I flinch, and I let it slide if they really need the simplicity.
**Ok, this is the real reason I decided to post, I blew the browser bit out of proportion...
A very elegant way of building modules in a space station / mining station / planet is you build one module, and just refresh (=> resubmit) untill the max is built. It cuts down the time req'd to less than a quarter of previous, and the frustration of losing a mining station by an equal amount.
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--- P.s. emi, please improve the UI; use the tabindex attribute, use shortcut keys...