I think this is the only way we'll ever figure out what's rustling around our back yard late in the night. Two in the morning and Zeke goes blasting out the door at full bark, echoing off into the woods until voice fades in the distance. Eventually he'll return, five to ten minutes later, but with stories only repeated in secret, leg twitching dreams.
IE reluctantly won me over a year or so ago. Not out of any respect for MS but mostly because it did what I wanted to do and I spent less time swearing at bugs or longing for another netscape update.
I was happy to hear that Opera is running on the Mac (Carbon no less) and not too badly for a beta. The windows version kicks IEbutt (once you register to turn off the ads) and has some really handy and interesting features.
The BEST feature, of course, is that Opera on both platforms sports a Google search box built right into the toolbar.
This won't do any good for our cat->bird problem. Smudge merely waits for a bird to fly into one of the windows and then munches down on the stunned victim. We've filled our windows with threatening bird of prey silhouettes without any reduction in bird bonkings. Maybe a fine, transparent fish netting hung a few inches in front of each window? It might start a whole new bird sport: window net bungy bouncing.