Opera or Firefox?

By Onizuka
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Which one to use it?  

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  1. 1. Which one to use it?

    • Opera
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    • Firefox
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Memory leakage is a pain in the a**. And startup time is  horrific too. =\. What's the difference between running FF, Opera, IE? How is FF "easier" to run? They all do the same basic things. Oh and my Opera8 blocks ads fine =P.

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For one, with Firefox, you don't need to mess around with .ini files, you click on an XPI file (an extension) and firefox installs it and you configure the extension using the GUI. That's easier...

Start-up time? horrific? seriously, waiting 5 more seconds for a browser to start-up won't kill you, it's really like the Ads in Opera, where you get a trade-off of Ads while your use the browser. Whereas for firefox, the trade-off is start-up time for a clean, simple browser. (and the start-up time is only a temporary side-effect, where as the Ads is pretty much permanent until you pay)

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jantjetest

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@Help

that's a bit shortsighted.

although i'm an Opera fan i agree that some of the things aren't the most ideal, but FireFox isn't either.

simply because we all have different needs. we don't live in an ideal world.

the learning curve of FF is just as steep btw.

it may look simple at first, but you'll have to figure out what 1000 extensions you need. then figure out which extensions work with eachother(because there are quite some extension that let FF crash or act weird when combined)

and then basically start all over again by deleting your profile once there's this minor update which should only fix security issues.

i know, once you know how it all works it's not too bad, but the ini's of Opera arent either.

a pro is that you only have to set it up once, and the settings from this profile can probably go until version 9 etc.. (don't get me started on "Mozilla backup" btw)

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drshdw

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For one, with Firefox, you don't need to mess around with .ini files, you click on an XPI file (an extension) and firefox installs it and you configure the extension using the GUI. That's easier...

Start-up time? horrific? seriously, waiting 5 more seconds for a browser to start-up won't kill you, it's really like the Ads in Opera, where you get a trade-off of Ads while your use the browser. Whereas for firefox, the trade-off is start-up time for a clean, simple browser. (and the start-up time is only a temporary side-effect, where as the Ads is pretty much permanent until you pay)

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Why can't I install downloaded FireFox themes just by clicking them? Why do I have to find an external program just to do that? O.o

Opera included all the extensions that I need, why bother d/ling others? Pointless. And even with all those extensions, the exe file of Opera is still about the same size as FF's.

The startup time of FF is give or take 20 seconds on my computer, default skin, adblock, etc. That is pretty damn slow. IE takes 4 seconds to start. Opera takes 5 seconds. Why would I want to wait an extra 15 seconds for FF to load? Btw my Opera has no ads, so whats your point? I'd rather not have ads than have a slow loading time.

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Rix

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Firefox rulez period :ninja: /me love open source

Firefox is the most compliant W3C standard browser

I tried opera but it is adware and crashed alot  :no:

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Please, get your facts right. Opera is more standards complient then firefox, period :rolleyes:

Why do you love open source? I'm guessing you can't code through the way you spell rules.. :sleep:

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Altered State of Consciousness

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...I have gotten to the point where I don't think I would want to surf the web without [extensions].

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Yes, gotta love updating all those extensions every time you update Firefox.. Not to mention the chance they will conflict with one another.

I tried FF a few different times, always got sick of Extension-hell. It's a good browser, for sure, I just think Extensions are implemented wrong. And 90% of them are just there to rip off Opera features anyway, so there's no point, to me.

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