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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, David Blamire-Brown wrote: |
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> 1) This version of Opera really seems to struggle with "heavy" pages. |
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> The whole app slows down, no response to clicks etc, until the page has |
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> fully rendered. Example of affected page: |
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> http://funds.ft.com/funds/searchFund.do?symb=AQSTG&type=F1 |
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I tried it just now. It took more than 1s to load, but otherwise it |
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seems normal. |
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> 2) Opera infrequently causes my system to hang completely. I can't ctrl |
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> +alt+F1 to a terminal screen, I can ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X, I |
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> can't do anything. It's a hard reboot of the box. Admittedly I'm |
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> slightly impatient, but I give it 10 secs before hitting reset, |
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> sometimes longer. I can't categorically state that it's Opera, but I've |
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> a very strong suspicion. Especially given that I basically use an |
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> xterm, sylpheed and opera 95% of the time. |
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This one seems serious. It's a show stopper if it starts happening... |
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> 3) Javascript seems fairly broken in Opera - but that could be my fault |
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> for not setting something up properly. |
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There's an extension for FF that blocks javaspoock but allows temporary |
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unblocking, on-the-fly, for the current site. This is one of the few |
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things I'll miss. |
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> 4) Some pages just don't render properly in Opera and I have occasion |
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> to fall back to firefox. As another poster said, it's often badly |
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> designed banking sites. |
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> 5) Overall though, IMO Opera is a nicer browser to use than firefox. |
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> Tabbed browsing is implemented in a more effective fashion. Keyboard |
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> shortcuts are lovely, eg F2 to bring a dialog for typing a URL, which |
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> can be configured to fire up a new tab is very nice. Shift+F2 allows |
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> you to have a one key shortcut for favourite bookmarks (again firing |
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> up a new tab). Sidebar is far more effective in Opera. Obviously |
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> personal preference, but I much prefer it. |
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Regards, |
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Jorge |
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