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Opera owns!

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I thought I would share this with you, I have only been using it for 5 minutes and already I see it is the superior web-browser. I strongly recommend you all download it!
 
Firefox clearly for the win; Any other feature you can dream up of in some other browsers Firefox can do as well right after 1 minute of searching through the extensions. And therein lies its power - Firefox is small portable and very fast, and it is only as advanced as you want it to be. Opera has no extensions which is a huge downside in my opinion, and most importantly, it is not open source.
 
I use Firefox, simply because Firebug doesn't exist in Opera.
I like Opera's features/quickness/standard compliance/etc. though.
 
badmephisto said:
Opera has no extensions which is a huge downside in my opinion, and most importantly, it is not open source.
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That's pretty much why I prefer Firefox, too (except that I think extensions are more important than being OS).
 
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tim said:
tends to hang while loading websites.
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That's because pipelining isn't enabled, and there is a pause between entering information, and reading information.
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Visit this page on instructions on how enable pipelining, and how to make Firefox run as fast as it can get.

BTW, I'm running Firefox 3 Beta 2 with Personas from the Mozilla Labs website, and it totally pwns Opera.

I have a few browsers, and I constantly use my FF. As of right now, I have IE7 (..waiting for Micro$oft to release an alpha/beta of IE8 in this half of 2008..) , Opera 9.25 , Safari 3 (beta), Firefox 3 (beta 2), and Konqueror on my mini-linux app, and I'd rank the browsers something like:
Firefox > Opera > IE > Safari > Konqueror

EDIT: the page I originally linked to , wasn't the page I used when I was tweaking. Check hait2's post , just below Pedro's, for a link to the website that I actually used.
 
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i have optimized my firefox as much as humanly possible (yes any tweak you find online that's legit, i have most likely already done)
nothing stops it from being a memory hog though
i wouldn't call it slow, but that's because i have ram to spare
there's also a memory leak present, i am not sure what causes it yet but it sure is annoying when it happens. i have heard this is fixed in firefox 3 soooooo we'll see

but yeah. firefox is neither small nor quick. it's pretty decent though i still hate it.

and flash plugin for ubuntu firefox fails. just, total failure. more gsod's please. (gray)

edit: that 'hack' up there is funny. firstly 100 is a bit overkill, but i guess it doesn't really matter. i have mine set at 30 although most sites limit it to 8 at most, and default to 4. some IP ban you for trying to pull a stunt like 100.

most importantly, it's missing nglayout.initialpaint.delay that should be set at 0. without this, there's really no big improvement (at least in my experience)
here are more tips for those that wanna try:
http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live-top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php
 
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hait: the current version of Firefox does take up a fair amount of RAM. It's never been a problem here because I have 1GB RAM and a fairly fast PC, but i know that some people are still 512 and possibly even lower. However I heard this was addressed in Firefox3 and maybe Jai can give us more information, but from what I heard from other people that tried it, they did a pretty good job, and the next Firefox should have much slower RAM requirements, and be much faster.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
 
I don't see many differences upgrading from FF2 to FF3, besides the fact that 98% of the themes aren't compatible with it. I guess we should wait for later releases to see differences; Mozilla hasn't implemented all of the new features into Firefox 3 yet; I don't know about the internal stuff, but as for the UI, they still have to replace the old theme with the new ones (they vary depending on your OS; the theme matches your OS), and put in more graphics-intensive tab switching (http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/11/firefox-3-gets-beautiful-tab-switching/)

About the RAM issue, it doesn't really bother me either, badmephisto, because I have 2 GB of RAM (667 mhz), an Intel C2D @ 2.00 ghz ( 667 mhz sidebus), and Nvidia Geforce 7700 with 512MB of memory. :D
 
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badmephisto said:
StefanPochmann said:
badmephisto said:
Opera has no extensions which is a huge downside in my opinion, and most importantly, it is not open source.
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How often do you look at Firefox's source code?
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never myself. but then we both know that that's not the point.
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It just sounded to me as if being open source were an advantage by itself. For most users, I think it isn't. Actually, now that I think of it, I'm not even sure what the point of open source is. Not even extensions are a good argument for it, as those could probably (?) be supported by a good extension API. Not sure you need to look/edit the code of the core program for that.
 
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