your right shekhar i have also noticed that ""Loading"" thing while using Gmail..but on my side it happens on IE even, thou for very short time...maybe 5 secs or so...i think it must dependent on speed of connection..for faster connections it might not seem very evident while for slower ones it appears to be taking sometime...
opera is nice but like ya i also needed a "Brower" only..opera has email, chat clients in it which i dont really use..so why get bothered by more customization...
..i installed firefox bcoz i was having problems while playing yahoo pool on opera, it was asking for java even when java runtime 1.4.2 is installed on my system..
i just downloaded latest version of firefox yest version 1.1PR..i m gonna install it and see if that yahoo mail RTF formatting works with that...BUT i still think, in an overall sense, IE still works best with all kinda websites and services, thou its little slow at times with some websites...if we have some problem with firefox or opera, IE will always be there...
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