Comments on: Taking a closer look at the Opera Browser

By: ph

ph — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:52:58 +0000

“So if I want to quickly check only one website, I may be inclined to just use Opera as it will open faster and load faster.”

I usually use Opera with around 40+ tabs open - try to do that on Bloatfox and you will see where Opera really gets useful

By: Manoj

Manoj — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:14:26 +0000

Good point, really.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:40:59 +0000

The test results from this page are interesting - I wonder how the latest beta of Firefox holds up, given that they tested Alpha 7 against Kestrel.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:41:54 +0000

I am an Opera addict. I couple of things I especially like are the multiple document interface setting, being able to have a strike thru visited links and being able to easily able to showing no images, cached images or all images. These and others all add up to a great product!

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:58:36 +0000

I use diigo.com to backup and store my bookmarks. It also can transfer between platforms.

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Alternatives to Your Usual Internet Browser | Windows Linux Mac — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:19:55 +0000

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By: Dorne

Dorne — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:23:56 +0000

Sure, Firefox 3 was proven to use less than Opera, but that was before Opera Kestrel Beta. I’m not so sure about the information, but Opera 9.5 (codename Kestrel) seems to be doing well.

http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/

Here is a list of new things from Opera’s Desktop Team
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/

By: chuser

chuser — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:05:57 +0000

I use both FF and Opera. One thing I love about Opera is the “Paste and go” function in the google search box.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:32:23 +0000

Sure, we plan to review it in the near future.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:07:44 +0000

@C. M. White

You can update via Firefox with this site:
http://windizupdate.com/

But Maxthon sure has come along way!
You should check out their downloader! Incredible speed there!

By: Viky

Viky — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:34:47 +0000

Opera Rocks…
It’s the Fastest Browser on earth..
simply the best.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:21:27 +0000

@Harsh Karn
Firefox 3 uses about half the memory that 2 did, and was also proven to use less than Opera.

By: C. M. White

C. M. White — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:43:06 +0000

I’d love to see a Maxthon article. I just recently discovered it, and it’s pretty amazing. It has a lot of the functionality of Firefox, but it runs on the same engine as IE, so you can do things like run Microsoft Update with it (which you can’t do on FF without the IE tabs extension).

By: Harsh Karn

Harsh Karn — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:53:47 +0000

Opera is just great to use. Before coming to opera I tried firefox but it hogged do much memory, that I dropped it.

Opera works on low memory, even when you have number of tabs open. It has clean look.
And toolbars could be easily rearranged to give much better view (I wanted large screen area). here’s a screenshot of my opera window -

By: Mow3

Mow3 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:33:33 +0000

…and yet, Opera can’t cope with FF community support (extensions, extensions).
I don’t think that I’ll trade FF for any other browser in the near future, sorry.