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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:00:06 +0000 (WET) |
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Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt> wrote: |
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> I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing |
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> So, the point is: what browser now? Firefox is the one more often |
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> mentioned in this list. How about Konqueror or Opera? The latter is |
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> hardly ever mentioned. Is there some special reason for this? For |
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> example, is it activelly maintained? Is it missing some particular |
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> feature? It looks nice enough, but is there some catch? |
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Another vote for Opera here. I'm running 9.02 at home. |
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A few observations from my set-up, although they could be as much to do |
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me having not got something else in my configuration right ... |
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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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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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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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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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David |
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