Word of The Day: travail 

I've used Opera 10 Alpha a lot lately, and it is quite good. It feels the fastest of the "big 3" mac browsers, but it was crashing on me about once a day, under heavy usage. If the final version is more stable, I'd switch back.

Safari is decently fast, but it just lacks a lot of functionality and expandability. It doesn't even save my sessions if the browser crashes! (the other two do)

Firefox can be painfully slow on this 5 year old Powerbook, but it has been rock solid stable for me. And I've become quite attached to having so many awesome plugins (skipscreen, adblock, downthemall, etc).

I'd like the webkit rendering engine + firefox style plugins, now that would be something (maybe google chrome will do this?)

Looks like Opera is skinnable, spy:
http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/ 

Adblock for Safari:
http://burgersoftware.com/en/safariadblock

More stuff:
http://pimpmysafari.com/

Apart from that, I agree that it sucks that Safari doesn't have a standardized plugin interface. 

What's the world coming to? 

I'm a windows dick head. 

There are browsers that don't crash? 

Yes, opera mini (for mobile phones) 

is very stable, too. I couldn't say when it crashed on me the last time. It has happened, but it's really really rare. 

doesn't crash. I don't know about w3m, though. 

my IE8 doesn't crash. Think I'd better change to another browser. 

anyone have any suggestions for a base texture set?

i'm looking around for stuff that hasn't been used lately (or isn't used much), so not idbase or ikbase.

what would you like to see? :P 

But thats quite a good pack IMO 

obtex looks like quake2 textures? or are they original?

i could try doombase that lunaran made but i've tried that a few times already in the past without much success. 

i think it looks a bit like quake 2 but not entirely, and apart from the rock and earth textures it looks pretty decent 

thanks for pointing me to them :) 

Obviously I should have just gone back to the stable version of Opera, not the bleeding edge alpha. Which I did, and it's ridiculously faster than Firefox (on a 5 year old Powerbook). Yes, I demand a lot out of my web browsers. Sleepwalkr, I didn't know about those Safari plugins, but they look quite nice. Pity some of the best aren't freeware.

Regarding base textures... a brief trip through memory lane and quaddicted/wads yields the following tidbits:

speedy's cr8 set. rather brown but i really like this one, very underused too

deconwad, hasn't been used since warpspasm afaik

Rorschach's HH3 work looks awesome and converts well to q1, but I dunno where to find the tga's anymore, what with fileplanet going to suck and the watchmen movie making a google search for "Rorschach" totally pointless (except on a deep dark corner of my hard drive). Actually scratch that, some of these links still work, amazingly: http://tarot.telefragged.com/hh3/files.shtml

I coulda swore Lun had more q1 wads, but I don't see them on his site or quaddicted. 

the wadfather appears to have Ror's texes, albeit through their bizarre browser that generates insanely long urls...

http://wadfather.planethalflife.gamespy.com/new/index.php?sid=9e843e437b99b0da44856cada145d75a&debug=wadinidebug&indexType=5&nI2=1&tI2=2&aI2=0&tI3=0&tID=752&nTX=0&tTX=1&nTT=822&tTT=40&tGM=0&tST=0&tSC=1&tTH=51&tPX=1&tPT=2&xRW=48&xOP=1&artistname=Rorshach 

also make from scratch versions of some q2 base textures?

and of course some from evillair. 

= win? 

Schnautzel! 

! 

you weren't kidding about Rorschach's textures converting well.

the clockwork textures look practically identical in the q1 palette :o 

I always liked Vendetta in Q1 myself.

Singlemalt goes too, but it becomes less red, more rusty brown (go Quake ;) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzZeeWk0S7M 

make this a mandatory util for fat WOW players.