I don’t think they mean back and forward as in one web page back to the previous one or forward to whatever you clicked on next but rather…

“Horizontally” through the open tabs you have with mouse gestures.

Opera also lets you go through tabs with control + tab, in an itemised list. This is great if you’re like me and have 20+ tabs open at once.

Additionally, I think it’s worth mentioning, Opera can also make *some* use of the kind of javascripts FF does with things like Greasemonkey.

I’ve also always found Opera’s tab/session management to be great – but i might change when FF3 hits us up with a proper release on tues.

I’m not sure why you didn’t try googling it, but ever since i started using FF a few years ago it has always included the IE keyboard shortcuts for navigation without the mouse (ALT+LEFT/RIGHT ARROW for back/forward, ALT+Home for home page, CTRL+T for new tab, CTRL+N for new window, CTRL+F4 OR CTRL+W to close tab/window, … the home page one is the only one which i find would take longer for me than the mouse (since i use multiple keyboards and every keyboard manufacturer seems to have different ideas on where is the best place for those ‘extra’ buttons, grr)… Maybe you’re not on the windows version of FF, if so then maybe it is different for you, but AFAIK these have been in FF since ermm about v1.2 (when i cottoned onto it) or earlier.

Opera sounds nice, but personally i prefer to have full control over any extra ‘features’ or prepackaged extensions – anything beyond rendering HTML should be optional (and also the footprint of these extra features).

Anything that edges out IE’s market share by even 1% is MORE than welcome though! ;)

- Matthew

Definetley enjoy the new look!