My tip of the week: Opera browser is better.
Firefox is by large the most used browser by the users of this website. The wonder of the 55.5% of the people (I have live statistics).
The two following are Opera with 22.1% of the share, and Internet Explorer, with 19.1% of the share. The reason why Opera is beating Internet Explorer is surely because most of the FoOlRulez members are Opera users. Else, it would be proably a 12% on the quota.
Yet, why am I here boring you with this? Because I already made my fellows of the guild change their idea on browsers. Opera IS better. I would just say… “try it already!”… Anyway, let’s make a list?
This is based on Opera 9.51.
First of all, Opera is way better programmed than Firefox. This means, of course, less memory useage, less crashes, faster enviroment, less freezes. It’s strongly noticeable while changing from Firefox to Opera. We all know what kind of resource eater became Firefox, from being the ‘lightweight browser’ of some years ago. Firefox tends to grasp more and more memory while working.
The user interface of Opera is better. From the beginning, it gives more selection when you start the program: you can as usual open last session and make a new one, but now there’s added ‘empty page’ and ‘saved sessions’ with a selection box with previous saved session. The empty page is not empty though: there are 9 boxes, each one can work like a bookmark, and show in it the preview of the website linked to it. The boxes are linked to numbers, so, wheter you want to use one, just type CTRL+number to reach the desired page.
By pressing F4 or the tools symbol a sidebar shows, containing all the user’s data, from RSS subscriptions to bookmarks and notes.
The skins are fully customizable and of course downloadable, as well as key-strokes and mouse-moves setups. Opera stuffs a mouse-control system to make even less use of the keyboard: just right click and do a movement while keeping pressed, and it will trigger any set command for that movement.
Opera has way more functions. The coder of this very website, he used the vocal system so Opera could
understand numbers said in a microphone. Basically, even if not really powerful (at my eyes) this software comprehends a potential voice-writer. It also supports widgets, and pretty fashionable ones, but, too bad, I don’t really care of widgets. I had no use for them yet.
A note system allows saving anything in it, I found it useful for putting there massive number of hentai links. But also for weird numbers like those from google’s codes for analytics and adsense. Like this I didn’t have to make a txt file just for a line. Even the download has his own cool system, not like we get ‘segmented’ downloads, but there’s the possibility to stop downloads and continue them later, even if they stopped because of a line-loss or a crash. Torrents are accepted too!
For what regards messaging, Opera integrates all in one a RSS2 reader (a real one, firefox has just a link-thing), an email system, an IRC system. It’s all controlled by the sidebar. The functionality of this messaging system is not ‘reduced’ as it could be supposed to be. Not much to say here. It’s basically like using the effective software for messaging…
I must say the cons tho. Opera is a last generation browser and it ‘prefers’ more recently scripted web pages. This means that rarely some bad programmed pages that maybe firefox would show correctly, could look a little messed up on Opera. This is about it though. I don’t really see more complications for using Opera.
My suggestion is, just install it, put it as main browser for a few days, and become addicted. Opera is really different, instead of being just a browser, it will become your gateway to the internet.
i agree 100%. opera is definitely the best browser. everyone should get the newly released 9.52 and dump the overrated firefox already.
Ah yeah, I wasn’t even using 9.52 yet, when writing the article. I wrote it beforehand.
i see. nice article there woxxy. How about image viewers next week? I vote for XnView.
I would have first of all to get informed about it… I guess I’ll select a subject that I am fond in, instead of talking of something I barely know.
I could talk about my opinion about XP and Vista, going against the flow and telling the pro-s of Vista.Or just make another Manga-themed … hell no, here’s too much anime and manga.
I’ll just think about something.
Wonder if I should get some other authors to write articles too now, since the website is making tons of visits thanks to the manga releases.
*checks XnView*
To be honest, I use Adobe Bridge CS3.
Yeah, I so agree!! Opera is so much better. Oh and just discovered your site, thanks for the hard work on Hayate!
Opera is good and all, but all my bookmarks are saved on firefox (heh, heh) don’t feel like transferring them :P
Opera transfers them by himself after being installed.
Cause it rocks that much. You don’t have to do anything, it’s all inbuild.
Hum… I’ll give it a shot, but I LOVE my firefox addon. I don’t know what I’ll do without-ietab (For those website that need activex/ don’t work properly on firefox. It’s a click away not a browser away.)-adblock + Filterset.g updater. -Browse Image-Batchdownload-Show the Image (basically you can open the largest image in a page/ and every page right of it too if you want)-Snap Links (right click drag, open every link in area. It sounds like Opera has this though)-Bookmark syncing w/ my laptop.I didn’t see any addon page on Opera, wanna point me in the right direction? I hate firefox memory consumption but I have 4gb / I also hate the crashes, but theres to many convient features from add on for me to give up. Willing to try something new if some of these are meet.
OH GOD wth is this mouse gesture! Flip foward: hold left button, click right button hold right buotton, move mouse right.! Right I was incorrect in what I thought mouse gestures. Had to add that after reading the page on mouse gestures. It looks like a combo move in KOF. Another one is to close the tabHold right button, move down then right, hold right button, move right left right. I don’t wanna remember all that just to close a tab!
LOL! Ok, that made me laugh. You’re right on that.
Hmm yeah, that’s what I was thinking too. I wanted some similarity to firefox, with the add on’s and that, but overall, I think I can sacrifice that for this.
Seriously though… it just blew my mind at the speed and customization you can put into this excluding add-ons. (I love how I can change the ‘download is done’ sound. haha ><)
All in all, this was a great suggestion as stuff was built-in already that I didn’t even know about
(I didn’t know there was a torrent downloader here too! This saves memory and some bandwith sharing from my uTorrent)
thanks for this awesome suggestion, truly love it.
Opera users as increased by 0.1% woo!
I have both Opera and FF install and use as my preferred browser. However I tend to favor FF more just because of the no script add on. If Opera were to implement something like No Script then I would ditch FF. But until then FF is still my go to browser.
If you need the no-script on Opera, press F12… guess you’ll find there what you need.
Or maybe I misunderstand what’s the function of no script, I used it sooo long ago @_@
ive been using opera for at least 6 years now. great browser.
also, opera is like the only browser supporting voiceXML (a standard created more than five years ago). ive been doing some programming work on this matter for a uni project, and its great. a bit unusual, but since every computer science student knows how BNF works, defining a grammar is pretty straight-forward. in the end i was able to make a search form that reacted on about 300 keywords that it could have found. the grammar was generated dynamically using PHP too.