so far couple glitches

one with scrolling on some image heavy page, basically it froze for good, no crash though

also had a problem with livestream once

how do u disable ads on this? manual feature is really bad

didnt try turbo mode yet, seems like it opens pages bit faster but navigating between them while running flash apps is slower then FF for me, maybe 1 GB RAM just isnt enough

Warrior Madness

Canada3791 Posts

March 06 2010 04:12 GMT

#206

Pretty fast compared to IE. The only thing I don't like is the quick dial homepage. I'd rather have IE's mini bookmark row at the top of the browser. That way I had quick and easy access to my top 15 sites at ALL times. I didn't have to load the homepage to access them.

reit

Canada209 Posts

March 06 2010 04:14 GMT

#207

On March 06 2010 13:12 Warrior Madness wrote:
Pretty fast compared to IE. The only thing I don't like is the quick dial homepage. I'd rather have IE's mini bookmark row at the top of the browser. That way I had quick and easy access to my top 15 sites at ALL times. I didn't have to load the homepage to access them.

You can add a bar like that. I did for mine

Warrior Madness

Canada3791 Posts

March 06 2010 04:18 GMT

#208

On March 06 2010 13:14 reit wrote:

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You can add a bar like that. I did for mine

Whoops. Of course. All you have to do is activate personal bar. I assumed it didn't do that because opera had automatically imported all my IE bookmarks except for that top bar. How silly of me.

Warrior Madness

Canada3791 Posts

March 06 2010 04:33 GMT

#209

Two things I like about opera. 1) Paste & GO. Simple. Commonsensical. 2) Right click, refresh -> every -> 5 seconds. This makes camping battle.net a whole lot easier.

machinehead..

412 Posts

March 06 2010 04:35 GMT

#210

Pretty fast compared to IE? It blows my mind to think there is a slower browser out there. IE fucking tilts me so much.

ToSs.Bag

United States201 Posts

March 06 2010 04:47 GMT

#211

Does that mean they have faster browsers in space? O_O haha. Yeah Opera is good stuff, and I have been getting rather tired of my firefox crashing lately. Gets kinda annoying, I'll give it a test.

Warrior Madness

Canada3791 Posts

March 06 2010 04:47 GMT

#212

On March 06 2010 13:35 machinehead.. wrote:

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Pretty fast compared to IE? It blows my mind to think there is a slower browser out there. IE fucking tilts me so much.

The thing is, I gave up on firefox all together because of its obscene use of memory. After I got my new laptop this December I've sort of stuck it out with IE, for the very first time in years. I don't know how secure opera is compared with other browsers but that was my browser of choice for Ubuntu. In fact now that I think about it, I had to convince myself that IE was safe enough to input my passwords into a few months ago.

My only complaint so far with Opera is its bookmarks. I'm sure there's a widget or customization some where that I can't find right now that gives access to your bookmarks in one convenient click. I wonder how google chrome compares with this. Truthfully, I'm satisfied enough with opera to have no curiosity whatsoever with google chrome.

ETA: 5 minutes playing around with opera was enough for me to manually import all my top bookmarks from IE to opera. I'm definitely sticking with this. It's blisteringly fast. Even youtube is faster and smoother.

MrHoon

10183 Posts

March 06 2010 04:48 GMT

#213

I still use FF only because I like their adblock and Downloadthemall is a very good addon which I like

Like Warrior Madness says, Firefox 3.X uses an obscene amount of memory which drives me nuts

If Opera gets something simalar to downloadthemall I would totally switch.

Chuiu

3470 Posts

March 06 2010 04:56 GMT

#214

On March 06 2010 13:48 MrHoon wrote:
I still use FF only because I like their adblock and Downloadthemall is a very good addon which I like

Like Warrior Madness says, Firefox 3.X uses an obscene amount of memory which drives me nuts

If Opera gets something simalar to downloadthemall I would totally switch.

Chrome has both adblock and downloadthemall, and is faster than Opera. You should make the switch to Chrome if anything.

MrHoon

10183 Posts

March 06 2010 05:03 GMT

#215

Really?
How is the memory consumption on Chrome?

Chuiu

3470 Posts

March 06 2010 05:07 GMT

#216

It depends on how many extensions you're using really, but typically its not nearly as high as Firefox.

Since Chrome got extensions I highly suggest everyone at least tries it out. I wouldn't switch to chrome till it got mouse gestures and adblock and now that it has those I'm happy using it.

Manit0u

Poland17766 Posts

March 06 2010 05:38 GMT

#217

You know of course that Chrome adblock is complete rubbish compared to FF adblock?

Chuiu

3470 Posts

March 06 2010 05:46 GMT

#218

Yeah but its still better than Opera's shit.

rabidch

United States20289 Posts

March 06 2010 06:20 GMT

#219

On March 06 2010 14:46 Chuiu wrote:
Yeah but its still better than Opera's shit.

Haha no.

Posting this from Chrome btw,
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/
should satisfy Opera adblock needs. Haven't seen an ad in a while since I've used Opera and I haven't updated my list in over half a year.

Stormscion

Serbia27 Posts

March 06 2010 06:35 GMT

#220

I use Opera and Chrome as support ... before chrome i used FF as support ... i like opera a lot , mouse gestures and middle mouse scroll , and its fast and you don't need to thinker with extensions , FF out of box dont offer anything , yes you can make monster if you add like 100 extensions but i get all i need from opera instal so i dont need to think about that ... for people who need more i guess FF is best ... for me atm its opera then chrome tbh.