Why Mozilla not Opera?


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When it comes to the program as a whole, without addons, skins and blah blah blah, I much prefer Opera.

I used Firefox for a good 2 years and tried Opera and it felt weird, so I went back to Firefox for a while.

Something made me try Opera again and it stuck. I've been using it for about a year now.

Paste and go is awesome.

It has a way to make a page refresh every 5 seconds- 30 mins.

New tabs open next to the active tab. (which was weird switching from Firefox but now seems more logical (I think Firefox now give this options anyway))

It is ROCK SOILD.

As far as features go, Firefox and Opera have both caught up, hell, even IE7 has alot of the stuff now.

BUT Opera was the first to do most of your favorite functions including tabs.

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i guess one could say that opera is "over" customizable....there is so many options that a average user is presented with up front that he or she may be overwhelmed. Firefox just works....A much better OOTB experience

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Was Opera fan, then Gmail came, didn't worked on Opera, switched to Firefox, never came back to Opera (Addons FTW!)

Gmail works in Opera now.

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I have both installed and switch between them every week. lol.

Both have their pros/cons, but in the end, it comes down to a personal preference. One browser isn't necessarily better than the other, you may prefer one over the other.

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I use Fx because it was the default browser for Fedora 8, and I never got around to getting Opera before I had loads of tabs open. Whoops.

Aside from that, it does have the UrbanDead toolbar, and UDTool. Which is very useful for moi.

It definitely bloats more than Opera, but my system can take it, and it is kinda my fault (26 tabs open, 140 megs RAM- in hindsight that's not too bad. My 40+ tabs in Opera took up about 300 megs 0.o- but they did have more active content (YouTube) and stuff)

One thing I used to not-like about Fx but it's grown on me, was tab management. I liked the opera system where they all end up shrinking down- I could still find what I wanted without having to read the names anyway. Fx makes me scrooool acros to the tab I want, and it's sometimes hard to see them when they're moving as fast as I need them to move, sometimes. The image-preview of the page in Opera was also useful, if you left the mouse on the tab. And right-click + mousewheel brought up a list of all of the tabs anyway, very useful.

But I am too lazy to hop browser windows just to play UrbanDead, so I use Fx now. Silly, after I just listed the benefits. (Also, it never rendered the page wrong, Opera, for me anyway)

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I've been a proud Fx user since its "Phoenix" time. Opera is, by default, very ugly and wasting space with all its extra-large toolbars. I could disable them, but there is much stuff missing then...

Apropos "stuff"; there's no huge variety of possibilities to tweak Opera's functions, it seems. No "add-ons" system. Everything is already built-in... so much stuff I don't need...

:(

Its adblocker is kinda crap, too; compared to ABP, at least...

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Used to be I would've never used anything but Opera, which I had been doing since version 5. But, ever since version 9, it seems way to herky jerky for me. Plus, there are even more pages than there used to be that just plainly don't work.

Never have been able to stand Firefox and the need to use a bazillion addons along with all the brain dead fanboys who think it is the greatest thing since the wheel, or something. Makes me very happy to see all the bugs and security issues that keep coming out in it.

My browser of choice now is Seamonkey, which JUST released version 1.1.8, along with AdBlock and Flashblock. Can't get any better than that!!

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As I'm sure most other people have said (I haven't read the whole thread :p) but, extensions. If it wasn't for the extensions I wouldn't see any reason to use firefox over opera... but I've got so used to firebug + web dev toolbar I can't switch.

If the opera team made a decent extension system I'd switch straight away, in general I like Opera much better than firefox.

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