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One of the things I like most about the Opera browser is its Multiple Document Interface. It goes beyond the tabbed browsing feature in Firefox. With Opera, each tab is called a page, and you can resize and move each page so that they are next to each other. There is a menu option which allows you to tile your pages horizontally, vertically, or have them cascade.

While I was editing all of the templates that made my site, I used the Opera browser to do it.

Here’s a screenshot:

I have two windows open. The one on the left is the template editing form within my EE control panel, and the one on the right is the EE user guide. When set up like this, it is very easy to look up something in the documentation when I need to. Sometimes I have two template pages open and tiled, and cut and paste bits of code between the two.

Then, on the very left of the screen, there’s the notes panel that’s built into opera. I use the notes to store code snippets that are common between the templates. If I want to use a code snippet in a template, I double click on the title of the note, and the note’s contents appears in the editing textarea. There’s less cutting and pasting involved!

So yeah. I still use Firefox as my primary browser but once in a while I’ll use Opera for its nifty features.