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i've just downloaded Opera 7, but i'm not too sure about installing it. i read that Opera is a bit faster than IE, but that's about it. Are there any other pro's and con's that i should be aware of? |
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Besides being open source (i think) I find opera to be just all around better than IE or netscape. I have never tried Mozilla (which opera is based off of, I believe) but i hear good things about that as well. Pros - nice interface (I find the new version of IE has seemed to borrow some ideas from Mozilla/opera) - Free/open source in direct competition with microsoft As for being faster than IE, i am not discerning enough to tell, but i would like to think so. just my opinion, but dont be afraid to give it a try |
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nothing beats netscape 2.0 and... mush, that avatar is slightly disturbing.. |
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"and... mush, that avatar is slightly disturbing.." it is isnt it? it still frightens me.... It is actually Cabbog and I shortly after shaving our heads last year... |
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Opera is not based on Mozilla at all. Mozilla is open source and Opera is proprietary. Mozilla kicks my head's ass. I couldn't live without the popup blocking, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures - oh wait, Opera has those too. Well Mozilla is free, open source, standards compliant and constantly improving, nyah nyah. One thing that utterly annoys me about Opera is that you can't save your bookmarks as an html file to import them to Mozilla. You have to get a third party app like bookmarkpriest to do that. |
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thanks |
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thanks fleetmouse, had my facts a bit wrong there- Mozilla it is, then. Long live open source, and people who think they know what they are talking about, but really dont! |
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its crap try mozilla firebird... it's the best browswer there is |
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Firebird is basically Mozilla Lite - it uses the same page rendering engine but has a different application framework and toolkit. I find it's not as solid as Mozilla but it'd probably run better on an older system. |
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I've been using opera for quite some time, and I would NEVER EVER even concider going back to either Internet Explorer or Netscape. It's only after you've started using Opera, you realize what crappy applications IE & NS are. Especially IE. |
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mozilla takes my fancy |
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opera is w3c compliant. so its good for making websites under, unfortunately the chances are, a lot of websites will look stupid under it cause they werent built to w3c standards. |
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I've never experienced problems with that. Opera is God |
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ok, you have convinced me. IE is going in the bin! |
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atta boy! this marks the start of a whole new internet-epoch for you my fr00d :) |
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Oh yaah! i love the mouse gesture thingie...right-click, LEFT! right-click, RIGHT! ...shit, i could do this all day!! |
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only thing i need now is a supafly skin! |
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mozilla is the cat's meow. |
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yeah, the mouse-gestures - you gotta love that, huh :) |
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i've heard knowledgable computer nerds speak quite favourably of Opera thats gotta give it some credibility |
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ie is nice for easy link clicking :P i don't like opera because i had to refresh the page alot, and i was never sure if i saw updated content or not. thats the only reason its faster than ie, it stores everything so the page pops up right away. at one point i couldn't even get it to download the latest content from a forum. i opened ie and there it was, new threads and all. well, there's probably an option for it somewhere but i wont bother :P |
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for a good reason, I might add |
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mozilla firebird for windows galeon/mozilla for linux safari for mac forget the opera junk |
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why is it junk? |
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face it - the mozilla era is over. :) |
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Why is it over? Maybe you meant the "Netscape era"? |
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Well I find it an annoying software, where nothing is working as expected. Don't ask me for details, I am lazy to install it again, and tell you why I uninstalled it after 1 day of use. |
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