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@ Hurana Ugajin "Havok is junk. There is not a single game out other than SL that uses it." Surely you're joking. Either that or you must live in some sort of parallel dimension or something. Havok is probably in more 1st and 3rd person games than any other physics engine.. Of the top of my head... Fallout 3 Fallout New Vegas Bioshock 2 Assassins Creed 2 Halo 3 all have Havok as their physics engine. Back to the viewer wars... I dislike v1.x viewers for their scattergun approach to a UI. It was/still is in serious need of a major tidyup. I really don't blame anyone who wants to move on from that mess. However, v2.x failed miserably at improving just about anything with regard to the UI. I'm sure the back end of it is way superior to v1.x but the user interface was/is dreadful. Fortunately, LL are slowly reintroducing essential v1.x features back into v2. v2.2 isn't there yet for me but I do see some lights at the end of the tunnel We've been promised the return of multiple windows for profiles/groups/locations/etc which for me is an absolute minimum requirement for me to ever use a v2 viewer. I'll be using Phoenix/Imprudence/whatever's the current best v1.x viewer until then. As for keynote speeches... LL have a habit of changing their minds every 5 minutes. The only time I'll beleive them is when I actually see it.

Well, I didn't uninstall it but it's still nowhere near a 'useful' browser for me. Back to Phoenix (and Imprudence) I go. The general experience is a little faster than the v1.x viewers but I still can't cope without being able to view multiple profiles, groups, places, etc. In fact, just about every single change to Profiles in v2.x is a backward step compared to v1.x.

@Ceera.Murakami Your post pretty much sums up most of what I find infuriating with V2 Common tasks took more mouseclicks, or became flat out impossible. Multitasking is almost completely impossible in 2.0, for example. And throwing even more things into that modal sidebar makes no more sense than a Swiss Army Knife with 5,000 blades that is three feet wide, welded to a post. It becomes unusable. is particulaly pertinent. Using V2 is like trying to eat your dinner with your knife and fork welded together. @Alx Harrop Again, everything you say fits in with my thoughts, especially... Another thing I really hated was getting people's RL info right in the face (with RL pics!) when checking their profiles. As a role player, that really messes with immersion. RL info contrasted with RP info = really bad. I really want a better viewer than the v1.x codestream but v2.x will never be used by me whilst the sidebar can only deal with one task at a time. Having few options is probably a good thing for people starting off but as people get more confident and more skilled, they want to be able to customise their workflow better. There's so many different interest groups in SL that there's no way everyone will be happy with a limited set of options so you simply have to bite the bullet and aim to provide the ability for these groups to work out their own workflows. If that means more options, dialog boxes and preferences, then so be it.