FireFox or Opera ?

[Rix]

How can you make a decent decision without even trying both solutions? :blink:

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Half of the people who have said Opera sucks and firefox is better havent used opera either..

[lav-chan]

... And half of the people who have posted in the thread period didn't give a reason or anything anyway.

'wut browser do u like'

'ffox'

OK, thanks for playing....

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Here's a idea, lets stop arguing over something this pointless.

As long as you use a browser you like, one that renders to the spec, is secure, etc. there shouldn't be a problem.

[Vice]

They do not do the same thing. This has been claimed several times in this thread, and has been debunked every single time. You really should read the thread before posting something that's been addressed already.

I am not convinced that you are aware of all the things Opera can do that Firefox can't (such as changing a theme without restarting), but I simply cannot be bothered to explain this to yet another badly informed Firefox user... Sigh. :no:

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Do they both surf the web? Yes.

Thats all I need my browser to do. Anything extra is just bloat-ware to me and Firefox does a good job of keeping all the stuff I will never use out my face.

[lav-chan]

Here's a idea, lets stop arguing over something this pointless.

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Here's an idea, let's stop posting on the Internet altogether because it's ALL pointless.

[ford.red]

iv used firefox and opera and i like opera the best. fire fox was to beginnerish for me and opera provides you with loads of real time technical information about the sites its loading.opera is overall for the more advanced users,while firefox is just for your everyday normal browsing

[ArKeYa]

Atm, I like opera better. But also, atm I am using Fx more because Opera can't still log me in in hotmail. :-(

[d_ralphie]

Half of the people who have said Opera sucks and firefox is better havent used opera either..

most of them, actually. or they have tried opera, noticed that "it's not like firefox', and then proceeding with commenting on it.

Do they both surf the web? Yes.

photoshop and the gimp both edit images. what's your point?

Thats all I need my browser to do. Anything extra is just bloat-ware to me

firefox is smaller, faster and better than opera. it is not bloatware at all.

and Firefox does a good job of keeping all the stuff I will never use out my face.

that's because firefox can't do much by default, so you need extensions that clutter up everything.

Atm, I like opera better. But also, atm I am using Fx more because Opera can't still log me in in hotmail. :-(

works fine here. you have changed some setting you shouldn't have changed.

[Rix]

firefox is smaller, faster and better than opera. it is not bloatware at all.

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You mean opera?

[Michael_C]

opera is overall for the more advanced users,while firefox is just for your everyday normal browsing

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Obviously you haven't actually tried all the developer tools for Firefox then. :laugh:

[+virtorio MVC]

I can't belive this topic has got to 78 pages.

What is wrong with you people?

[vcv]

I can't belive this topic has got to 78 pages.

What is wrong with you people?

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:rolleyes:

I don't get it. Why do people come in here and try to be all diplomatic and mighty? We choose to continue debate. Let us. We are hurting no one. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it.

[Draconian Guppy]

I can't belive this topic has got to 78 pages.

What is wrong with you people?

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Hmmm Call it need to flame, boredom, fun ? :p lol post raise :ninja:

[TheGuru]

Firefox

My primary browser in use. It's simple and uncluttered. I can customize it the way i want, through the plugins. Has a so-so tabbed interface. Overall, it's pretty good. However, it still has a long way to go ... FF aint perfect ... if it was ... we wont need a new version :happy:.

Opera

My 'choice' of browser ... although not the default browser in use. It has enough customization pre-built within it. Great tabbed interface (I dont like FF's static tabs). Pretty cool skins. Full screen mode is awesome (as working with mouse and keyboard gestures is so easy with Opera ... one wont miss the buttons). The only thing i dont like is the banner thing on top ... remove that ... and stay in the competition. Excellent browser.

[TmasterT]

Opera is faster, we all know that. I like opera because i have my bookmarsk in the sidebar, and i just click it to hide it and click it again to show them. it works extrememly well in maximized window mode when i can just move my mouse all the way to the left, click, click a boomkar, click it to the side again and have the sidebar closed. Why is that better than Ctrl+B? maybe cuz im alredy using my mouse with guestures adn its eaasier to use the mouse.

[Chode]

We are hurting no one.

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You/We hurt my fragile acceptance of the members of this forum :pinch:

[the_last_rites]

pls dont stop now guys. lets have another 78 pages of this "meaningful" argument please. :D

[drgrudge]

Hmm in this rate, 100 pages wont be a difficult target. :)

Ppl, guess what after seeing which was better now we ourselfs talk about other things.

It's just like what holiday u want to choose... like US or Australia , it all depends on our requirements , dont it? :)

[struct]

firefox is smaller, faster and better than opera. it is not bloatware at all.

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actually, pretty sure it was proven quite a few pages ago that firefox is larger and slower than opera. 'better' is subjective. I also wouldn't call it bloatware at all, since, there's not much in it in the first place.

[vcv]

actually, pretty sure it was proven quite a few pages ago that firefox is larger and slower than opera. 'better' is subjective. I also wouldn't call it bloatware at all, since, there's not much in it in the first place.

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He was being sarcastic. :p

[safehavenofsolitude]

i use mozilla firefox and the mozilla suite and i'm happy with both, but i find the suite to be faster the firefox :wacko: also the suite has multizilla a great extention. I have used opera a few times and i really tried hard to like it but it just seems slow to me and sometimes not all the images on the page load either.

[worbd]

If Opera is slow and/or not all images load, something is obviously wrong on your end. Proxy? Firewall? Upgrading to the latest version of your firewall might help, actually.

[vcv]

Something I'd like to add...

I've had people tell me Opera is not as good as Firefox on linux, and is slower, etc.

So I tried it for myself, Opera 8.0 beta vs. Firefox Nightly and Firefox 1.0.

- Ran a JS benchmark test, Opera 8 got 8.5 seconds and the Firefoxes got between 18-20 seconds.

- Firefox was noticably slower on larger pages

- Firefox was noticably slower redrawing pages on scroll

I believed the people who said FF was better than Opera on linux :( I was actually going to use FF on my linux box at work too.

[safehavenofsolitude]

I use zonealarm and everything works perfect for firefox, opera just didn't cut it :p

[Krpano]

Well, i moved from Firefox to Opera.

I must say im VERY impressed with it.

Hard to say which one is better, i can only say that Opera seems to fit my needs more than Firefox.

Without saying that Opera is much more elegant and powerful, imho.