dear comp
I followed your advice and changed to Opera (from firefox), but i fail to see why its better. mouse gestures are nice but seems no faster thank firefox for starting up or browsing, so whats the advantage? or is it just a fashion thing
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Anonymous2007-09-23 9:58 ID:SHgpwK0t
OP here, also F5 > Ctrl R, whats up wiith that?
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Anonymous2007-09-23 11:01 ID:vebzi8wj
>>1
it doesn't eat up ram and is more reliable and faster as well >>2
you can use both in Opera
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Anonymous2007-09-23 13:27 ID:ntelcs9D
How do I select text in Opera? Clicking furiously just brings up some stupid menu for Mactards that only have one button.
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Anonymous2007-09-23 21:09 ID:7uIfU8Kg
Opera is WAYYYY faster. I've used it on a 400Mhz computer and it was totally useable, faster than IE. Had good experiences with it on a hacked Xbox under Linux, which only has 64MB RAM.
Firefox has more features and extensions though. Startup time isn't a big issue with multiple tabs as I usually keep the same instance open all day. I stick with Firefox unless I need to browse on low end systems.
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Anonymous2007-09-24 10:53 ID:7rARNrY6
Ninety open tabs and just as fast as always. Memory usage: 60MB. Try doing that with Firefox.
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Anonymous2007-09-24 11:17 ID:yWqiz8DU
lol, is Firefox the new bad guy?
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Anonymous2007-09-24 12:59 ID:MB/xX9H3
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Why do you have ninety tabs open? I think you need to reexamine your assumptions.
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Fora, threads, porn, reference sites for whatever I'm working on, etc. It really provides a much faster workflow than bookmarking everything and loading on demand.
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Anonymous2007-09-24 22:55 ID:y80qrk8V
i tested opera and firefox 2 on an 800 Mhz p3 with 256Megs of ram. firefox was faster but used a little more ram. opera is just a fad and it'll go away soon.
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Anonymous2007-09-24 23:19 ID:Y084l2jH
FORA????OMG FORA
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Anonymous2007-09-25 12:42 ID:ioLoz327
Opera has always been a fad. Seriously it's really old I don't know why you guys are so amazed. "OH MAH GOD OPERA'S DEFAULT CACHE SETTINGS ARE LOWER THAN FIREFOXES" /jerkalert
Dumb.
Why don't you kids go to tweakguides and tweak out your Microsoft Word too? I heard Notepad takes up less cycles though. Just sayin.
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Anonymous2007-09-25 13:24 ID:sKpEz97B
Opera has been around longer than Mozilla, not to mention Firefox. Some fad.
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Anonymous2007-09-26 10:44 ID:xBosdk+/
Up until the more recent branches of FireFox, the differences were a LOT more noticeable.. you could rearrange tabs, it was significantly faster starting up, it kept track of closed tabs, and had a bunch of other little neat things. Now, with Fx having added a lot of them, as well as extensions, its back to personal preference.
One of my favorite things is that RightClick then LeftClick or vice-versa allows you to go back/forward, and with caching, it's really quick. It also has a few neat ways to change the way a page is displayed that's good for testing, if you're a web developer.