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Opera
Opera
who had tabbed browsing 1st? Opera
who had a built in pop-up blocker 1st? Opera
who had mouse gestures 1st? Opera
who is the fastest browser? Opera
who saves your open pages? Opera
along with several other little things, Opera has been 1st.
To discount it or even be crude and call it a second rate browser is insulting.
FF has extentions that I wish Opera did but the funny thing is all the extentions that are in my FF are what Opera already comes with.
Opera has been my browser of choice since ver4 when you had to purchase it.
Try Opera for a week, you'll love everything it does and can do....faster than any other browser!
Opera, kinda like Navigator or Seamonkey, has it's own built-in mail and news clients that rock. Opera has a built-in IRC client, that I use constantly. Opera has BitTorrent built-in, and it's consistently by far the best-performing Torrent client I use, and I've used them ALL, which is sad. (I torrented Ubuntu 8.04 in about two hours with Opera, and that on a measly 5Mbps cable line.)
Opera pioneered tab browsing, and they still have the cleanest interface for it. They introduced Speed Dial in version 9 I believe, which is so brilliant that Firefox 3 is copying it. They have Opera Widgets, which no browser has equaled yet (I think again Firefox 3 added it). And, to top it all off, they have the best regular file download client available. It remembers your downloads like Firefox, but gives you the option to redownload, and to pause and resume downloads, even among multiple sessions. Also, great autofill for forms, usernames and passwords, my favorite of any browser actually.
Also, they were the first browser to by default save your tab locations upon close, so you could close your window, open it later and everything would be exactly as you left it. Firefox does that now, but not by default, you have to set it up that way, and the wording is confusing to new users.
I didn't really mean to take this stance when I started writing this, but I guess Opera's my favorite browser. I do wish they did plugins like Firefox, so I could add StumbleUpon, but that's it. :)
Please discontinue writing comments in the future, especially about "compilers", when clearly you have no idea how web langugages are implemented.
Nothing personal. :D
- by andyady March 15, 2009 1:01 AM PDT
- I have been using all of the browsers and although Safari and Firefox can be pretty fast, Safari eats as much memory as Internet Explorer and Firefox crashes on certain websites or when playing certain videos in flash. Opera is stable, fast and eats the least amount of memory.
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