Opera Vs. Mozilla Firefox Which Internet Browser is better?
#1
Posted 07 April 2005 - 08:30 PM
Anyway, I used to like Firefox. That is, until I found out about Opera and tried it. I love it! Its built-in e-mail thingy is real conveniant (especially for Gmail), I prefer it over even Mozilla Thunderbird! And, it had much faster loading speed and very cool skins you cant get with Firefox. Exept, you cant get extensions for Opera, but its worth it!
#3
Posted 07 April 2005 - 08:59 PM
#4
Posted 07 April 2005 - 09:36 PM
...It's the Web Browser topic. Just see which got more votes than the other.
#5
Posted 08 April 2005 - 12:37 AM
Firefox has just a little bit better rendering in CSS, closely followed by Opera. But Opera loads a site faster then Firefox.. So they are pretty even. But I'm going for Opera because it is Norwegian..
#6
Posted 08 April 2005 - 01:57 PM
Piers diamondberg master, on Apr 7 2005, 09:36 PM, said:
No, I meant a topic about Firefox and Opera ONLY. (I just want to see how many people like Firefox better than Opera or vice versa without the extra Internet Browser options)
#7
Posted 08 April 2005 - 09:39 PM
There are extensions for Opera:
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/
http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/01/ope...efox-extensions (This is the best page. Check user comments are bottom for links)
#8
Posted 09 April 2005 - 05:51 PM
#9
Posted 09 April 2005 - 06:29 PM
#10
Posted 10 April 2005 - 11:00 AM
http://www.howtocrea...owserSpeed.html
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Opera also is a clear winner using history. In fact, on Linux it is faster than Mozilla and Firefox for all except starting time. On Mac and Windows, Opera is faster than Mozilla and Firefox for all tasks. Surprisingly, Mozilla is now faster at most tasks than Firefox (please don't send me any more emails about this line, I am well aware of why it is faster). Internet Explorer on Windows was either as fast as - or faster than Mozilla and Firefox for most tasks, with the exception of scripts, where it took over twice as long. Of course, its poor standards and security clearly make it a much less attractive prospect. The Moox Firefox install is actually slower than the standard Firefox versions distributed from Mozilla.org, even though it is supposedly optimised for my particular processor. The Mac optimised version is a bit better, but trades performance in one area for performance in another, making little or no difference overall. The performance of K-Meleon and Epiphany was similar to the performance of Mozilla and Firefox on the same platform. The new Netscape Browser preview (based on Firefox) was clearly suffering from bloat caused by the AOL add-ons.
#11
Posted 15 April 2005 - 04:43 PM
http://img18.echo.cx/img18/435/operascaleandtile5al.th.jpg
NOTE: Both tiled pages displayed in the image above were scaled at 90% so that I wouldn't have to scroll as much while keeping small text legible.
#12
Posted 16 April 2005 - 10:43 AM
#13
Posted 16 April 2005 - 12:52 PM
Firefox=About average speed. Opera is just a fast browser. The free versions display ads, but that doesn't bother me, as I have a high enough screen resolution for them to literally not get in the way of anything.
#14
Posted 16 April 2005 - 03:49 PM
#16
Posted 16 April 2005 - 11:39 PM
Cleaner, smoother, faster, more safe,easily updated, tons of extensions and themes, perfect partner for thunderbird.
Opera is clunky, and has ads! How many friggin web browsers have ads for god's sake?
I used to use opera also (I've tried all PC browsers save Maxthon, no intention of it either), but got sick of the lack of user friendly features. Firefox is just a safer fast better web browser.
#19
Posted 17 April 2005 - 04:35 PM
Agatio, on Apr 17 2005, 12:39 AM, said:
Cleaner, smoother, faster, more safe,easily updated, tons of extensions and themes, perfect partner for thunderbird.
Opera is clunky, and has ads! How many friggin web browsers have ads for god's sake?
I used to use opera also (I've tried all PC browsers save Maxthon, no intention of it either), but got sick of the lack of user friendly features. Firefox is just a safer fast better web browser.
wrong. Opera is far faster than Firefox. I don't know how you reached that conclusion...
And the ads don't bother me at all; probably 'cause of my high screen resolution.
And you dont have to restart Opera to switch skins. You have to restart Firefox to use skins.
#21
Posted 17 April 2005 - 04:50 PM
The Facts
Firefox is faster at something, Opera at others.
Overall Mozilla whoops its butt though.
#22
Posted 17 April 2005 - 08:59 PM
Of course, we can always still rule out IE, since it's total crap.
#23
Posted 17 April 2005 - 09:35 PM
Crimson Barrel Knight, on Apr 17 2005, 07:59 PM, said:
Here here. Amen to that. Oh ya. Etcetera.
IE was even deleted out of my Recycle Bin. And I only do that to programs that REEK or I dislike with a passion.
Since this is a conversation with both FF and O I think I can clearly say....
Firefox & Opera PWN IE.
#24
Posted 17 April 2005 - 09:47 PM
#26
Posted 17 April 2005 - 10:09 PM
#27
Posted 18 April 2005 - 12:06 PM
Agatio, on Apr 17 2005, 10:50 PM, said:
The Facts
Firefox is faster at something, Opera at others.
Overall Mozilla whoops its butt though.
OMFG!
Have you read it?
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Opera beats FireFox, FireFox don't beat IE. The only reason IE is slow is because of spyware.
It seems like you've not read the test. And it's not the fact, it is a test.
#28
Posted 18 April 2005 - 03:51 PM
In the end though, Opera is probably only faster by 0.005 second anyway, so who gives a ****?
#29
Posted 18 April 2005 - 04:00 PM
And how do you know it's just the spyware on IE? There could be many other possibilities as to why it's only worthy for the Recycle Bin. Think about it for a while.
#30
Posted 18 April 2005 - 04:20 PM
And the difference is not 0.005 seconds. According to that site, It takes nearly twice the time to load pages (comparing Opera 8.0 Beeta to Firefox 1.0 for windows.
Also, I recently uninstalled Firefox (not that firefox is crao or anything) because what Opera can't do that Firefox can, Maxthon (which is like firefox except it doesn't "look" as good) can also do it. The biggest reason is that IE can do (the good things, like certain videos aren't supprted with Opera and Firefox for example) that Firefox and Opera can't do, Maxthon also can do that (excluding Windows Updates). It isn't much slower than Firefox, and I don't use it much.
In other words, Opera>>>Maxthon>Firefox>>>>>>>>>IE
(in my opnion)
Also, for you guys who installed IE: That is not exactly a good idea; you can't use Windows Updates without IE. That's all I use it for though.
#31
Posted 19 April 2005 - 12:06 AM
And Maxthon is more like IE than Firefox, but with more saftey, tabbed browsing etc.
Regarding speed, I have ADSL 100mbps, and a 3.2 gigahertz AMD processor, so I don't think I would notice **** XD .
As for everything owning IE, WHO CARES, EVERYONE KNOWS NOW, GET OVER IT
#32
Posted 19 April 2005 - 06:33 AM
You gave wrong information, and that is not good. And you are completly wrong. In script rendering Opera is superior to FF, it is better in everything else to.
#35
Posted 19 April 2005 - 07:16 AM
Anyway, I still use firefox by choice, and don't have opera on my machine.
I used to use, but didn't like the adds, larger buttons, and overall clunky feel to it. Regardless of how many seconds slower Firefox may be at rendering certain aspects of web pages, I stick by it as a better browser.
#36
Posted 19 April 2005 - 08:43 AM
I recently uninstalled Opera, as I didn't find it as good anymore.
Opera was kinda taking up too much space on the screen. Not that it did make a very big difference but enought to be a little bit annoying.
And a lot of websites are bugged with Opera.
But on the other hand it might be the same thing with mozilla.
#37
Posted 19 April 2005 - 01:07 PM
Firefox pwns opera in my opinion~ Dont quote me and say 'zomg y0r fact0rz r freakin wr000ng!!!' Cuz I tried both and overall I prefer FireFox. The huge ad bugs me. In 1200x1760 res it dosent. But I dont like that high res.
#38
Posted 21 April 2005 - 10:32 AM
#39
Posted 21 April 2005 - 05:50 PM
Rufus, on Apr 21 2005, 09:32 AM, said:
How true that is.
Lol. I had to do something about browsers at school. I found this post.
It said: IE: Fix 2 bugs, add 3 more bugs, change name by 1.0, repeat every 5 years wether needed or not.
I find this funny and true.
#40
Posted 22 April 2005 - 08:59 AM
Opera is for people who are smart enough not to use IE.
Firefox is for people smarter than that o.o .
#41
Posted 22 April 2005 - 03:09 PM
Anyway, it may have to do with the fact that the Opera version on my mom's computer was the Beta for 8.0.
#42
Posted 23 April 2005 - 02:34 AM
Opera - has ads? WTF is that
Firefox - It's like Netscape, but looks ****tier (and I don't like using skins).
IE - boring
Netscape - the best
I've been using Netscape since possibly 1999 and I've seen it change over the years. It now offers an e-mail program (not a web-based sorry excuse for e-mail) that looks similar to Outlook but guess what, it's free.
Netscape has almost everything Firefox has without pissing all over your face when you go to certain websites.
#43
Posted 23 April 2005 - 08:13 AM
The reason it HAS skins is to make it look the way you want it too.
And this is to do with Opera and Firefox, not netscape ^_^ .
#45
Posted 23 April 2005 - 07:03 PM
Agatio, on Apr 23 2005, 02:13 PM, said:
^_^ Fine, if Netscape is not included (buggers), it goes: Firefox > Opera
The pissing thing comes from Firefox not being able to handle several of the sites I like to go to. Netscape and Firefox run on almost the same type of engine, but for some reason I have less problems with webpages with Netscape.