Opera

[Lowe]

I've been pissed off with firefox a lot lately, mainly because it's taking such a long time to start. So i downloaded Opera 8 and well although i don't like the ads (Which can be worked around *cough*) this has to be the quickest starting browser i've tried, i'm totally shocked firefox uses twice as much ram as opera does.

 

I quite like Opera, i don't need all the fancy firefox extensions or anything all i want is a nice quick loading web browser where i can keep a few bookmarks and that's it. Opera seems to do the job pretty well, so i'm going to be using that for a while. I'm guessing a lot of you don't like it, but i'm still curious to see everyones opinion on it.

[solarian]

I like Opera quite much and I would have been using it,

if not because of some FF extensions I'm addicted to.

Oh, and FF has the Noia theme I adore.

[theo]

no, don't like non opensource softwares (if there are alternatives and there are a lot of)

[solarian]

I don't really care open source or not,

my priority is usability and accordance with my needs.

[tyme]

i'm not a fan of opera, IMHO the interface is too complicated. I don't have any loading time issues with firefox, but then again i'm running arch linux (not sure what you're running).

[jlc]

I'm not a big fan of Opera either.

 

FIrefox zooms along just fine for me and has a ton of options.

 

Epiphany is pretty minimal and should be fast.

 

Mozilla 1.7.8 feels faster than the last time I used it, but thats all subjective :D (maybe cause its my rawhide x86_64 box, dunno)

 

edit: "Abstract PC" theme for firefox rules!

Edited May 25, 2005 by cybrjackle

[kungfooya]

Lowe, i've been using opera since version 6 or so, and its been great.

I use the ad supported version, which only shows very few generic adds.

As for the interface being cluttered, it can be customised any way you want

it. I recommend or install this browser for everyone I know who has browser/

spyware/misc issues. SPEED, email, newsgroups and alot more in a +3mb

download. I highly recommend it.

 

Jason

[linux_learner]

my wife runs opera and has since 6. she now has 8. i run firefox. we use the same box, so its a side by side comparison. i have done a timed test.

 

> time -p opera
opera: Activated running instance
real 3.02
user 1.09
sys 0.08

 

> time -p firefox
real 2.21
user 0.02
sys 0.02

 

you try it. based on this test, firefox is faster.

[aioshin]

have you tried mozilla itself? i'm using it for browsing and email client.. opera, yeah, it has annoying ads

[scarecrow]

Even without the ads, the Opera interface is hopelessly cluttered. Of course the extra toolbars can be removed- but in general I find nothing appetizing in that thing.

[Lowe]

my wife runs opera and has since 6. she now has 8. i run firefox. we use the same box, so its a side by side comparison. i have done a timed test.

 

> time -p opera
opera: Activated running instance
real 3.02
user 1.09
sys 0.08

 

> time -p firefox
real 2.21
user 0.02
sys 0.02

 

you try it. based on this test, firefox is faster.

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 time -p opera
opera: Activated running instance
real 0.76
user 0.34
sys 0.04

 

 time -p firefox
real 3.60
user 1.96
sys 0.16

 

time -p mozilla
real 6.28
user 2.15
sys 0.24

 

time -p epiphany
real 3.28
user 1.83
sys 0.13

 

That's a good enough reason for me to use opera.

[iphitus]

 time -p opera
opera: Activated running instance
real 0.76
user 0.34
sys 0.04

 

 

That's a good enough reason for me to use opera.

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You bias seems to blind you.

 

opera: Activated running instance

 

You already had it running, it didnt have to load anything.

[Lowe]

 time -p opera
opera: Activated running instance
real 0.76
user 0.34
sys 0.04

 

 

That's a good enough reason for me to use opera.

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You bias seems to blind you.

 

opera: Activated running instance

 

You already had it running, it didnt have to load anything.

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I was simply asking if people liked it, no need to take it the wrong way. How was i supposed to know it was running? I went to sleep last night with just xchat running (that i could see) loaded up opera and read this thread, i then closed opera and did what linux_learner told me to do. Please don't jump to silly assumptions. I'm not trying to prove anything here, opera starts faster for ME i didn't say it would for joe bloggs around the corner did i? I shouldn't need to explain myself to the likes of you, anyway.

[tyme]

yeah, chill out a little there iphy :P

Edited May 25, 2005 by tyme

[adamw]

Running time on anything but a clean boot is rather meaningless anyway; whichever browser you use regularly will surely win, as it'll likely still be in the cache (especially since you probably just finished reading the post, quit the browser and then ran the test immediately).