Opera 10.0 Browser is AWSOME!!! SO MUCH faster than Firefox!

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I recently read an article about the Mozilla corporation and found the information very disturbing, to say the least. I then decided to try using Opera and am TOTALLY amazed at the performance. All I can say is that there is NO comparison in performance. I would say that my pages are loading 3-4x faster, while having 3 windows and 10-12 tabs per window. Firefox would LAG a lot and very often crash.

If you are in the tech field, do yourself a favor and try this browser, IT WILL SAVE YOU A LOT OF TIME! Once you get comfortable I think you will be more than happy to offer it to clients and they will be VERY thankful for the increase of speed! The options and design of the borowser are BEAUTIFUL and it is fully customizable. I'm in love with software:o

http://www.opera.com/browser/

The following is a very short summary of what I read about the Mozilla relationship with AOL/Time-Warner. Mozilla is owned by AOL/Time-Warner and they profit from the free work that has been done by any contributors to the Mozilla project.

I did some research on Mozilla today and how their company works. I found something very interesting and a little alarming. I was under the impression that Mozilla / Firefox was a project run by a non-for-profit company, which it was for a time. The software is open-source, which means that anything that is added to the software becomes the property of the initial programmer (Netscape). Well it turns out that Netscape / Mozilla is a subsidiary of AOL/Time Warner. This was shocking news to me! I didn't think that I was using a browser that was owned by a huge corporation but I was wrong. This may not matter to many of you, but the Mozilla corporation and AOLTW have been promoting Mozilla as a non "big-business" web browser created by techies and enthusiasts (for free mind you). This is extremely deceiving and manipulative.

The reason this is such a big deal is that 1,000's to 10,000's of people have worked MANY hours on this browser, to create a competitive market in the browser field so that Internet access doesn't become stagnent with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Now AOL/TW is making hundred of millions to billions of dollars on the backs of all these programmers who are working under the assumption that Mozilla is a "community" project and they are working to create a better and more free internet. Any code that has been added to Firefox through add-ons or patches, created by free programmers, is property of AOL/TW! Talk about deciet!

Here are two blogs by someone else who put the Mozilla/AOL-TW relationship together. I now understand why FF is so slow, it is owned by a "Mega corp"!

I highly suggest that you read the first link and take some of the comments and opinions with a grain of salt as this guy is venting.
http://www.courageunfettered.com/stuf/mozilla2/
http://www.courageunfettered.com/stuf/mozilla3/
 
Interesting things about Firefox there, I had no idea that was going on. Been using Opera for a while now though and I would have to agree with you 100%, it's incredibly quick and responsive and once you get used to some it's features they're pretty difficult to live without.

The mouse gestures for SpeedDial and back/forward navigation for example, I attempt to use in pretty much every application now :) The only trouble is that a small minority of sites don't support Opera, even though it's one of the most (if not THE most) standards compliant browsers. There are certain government sites I use that redirect you from their login page if you are using Opera, which is a shame.

Definitely worth at least a test drive :)
 
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tomdavies said:
Interesting things about Firefox there, I had no idea that was going on. Been using Opera for a while now though and I would have to agree with you 100%, it's incredibly quick and responsive and once you get used to some it's features they're pretty difficult to live without.

The mouse gestures for SpeedDial and back/forward navigation for example, I attempt to use in pretty much every application now :) The only trouble is that a small minority of sites don't support Opera, even though it's one of the most (if not THE most) standards compliant browsers. There are certain government sites I use that redirect you from their login page if you are using Opera, which is a shame.

Definitely worth at least a test drive :)
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I haven't even gotten past the default install and I love it! I'll have to lok at the SpeedDial thing.

Netflix doesn't support Opera :mad:
 
Those two anti Mozilla articles are conspiracy FUD at worst and simple ignorance at best. Nothing wrong with Opera, use it if you want, but using faulty articles last updated 4 years ago to make your argument is very irresponsible.

https://library.mozilla.org/The_History_of_Mozilla
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/
http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/11/19/state-of-mozilla-and-2008/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation

When AOL (Netscape's parent) drastically scaled back its involvement with Mozilla Organization, the Mozilla Foundation was launched on July 15, 2003 to ensure Mozilla could survive without Netscape. AOL assisted in the initial creation of the Mozilla Foundation, transferring hardware and intellectual property to the organization and employing a three-person team for the first three months of its existence to help with the transition and donated $2 million to the foundation over two years.
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There have been no contributions from AOL/TW since then.
 
After reviewing those articles further, especially getting to the bottom credit, I see that it was written in 2003, the year that the foundation was created and that AOL gave them the startup funds, and was written by Andkon.

Andkon is a troll and was so for a long time. He hasn't been heard of in a few years, so I suppose he either grew up or is no longer on this earth. He was banned from Mozillazine under numerous monikers over the years and was a well known conspiracy troll who loved spreading the "Mozilla is a communist plot" garbage along with other falsities. As with all trolls, he posted incessantly and erroneously. He even tried to do a DOS attack on Mozillazine. Keep in mind that Mozillazine is completely independent from Mozilla. It's a user to user support forum.

Now, if you wish to believe a troll, great. I suggest that you consider the source before you do though.
 
I used to be a huge Opera fan. I used it for browsing, mail, news, torrents, everything. When they changed the way their mail was stored, they required that you convert your existing mail archives to the new format. So, I backed-up my many years worth of mail archives, and proceeded to migrate to the new format.

Once I migrated to the new format, I discovered that none of my mail could be read. The converted files were all corrupted. So, I tried to restore the backups and try again. The second attempt was the same as the first, so I elected to go back to the previous version of Opera. Eventually I realized that I would never be able to upgrade the browser unless I somehow converted years worth of email to a new format. I was unable to find any conversion tools for Outlook or Thunderbird at the time, so I swore off Opera and chalked it up as a loss.

After using Firefox for a few years, I've become accustomed to it. Plugins are available to add all the Opera functionality to it, so I'm not really missing anything.

I use Opera in a virtual machine for web development, but that's it. I never use the Turbo feature. The Turbo feature speeds things up by routing your data through a "compression server", which is a fancy way of saying they're proxying your data through one of their servers. It's just like the "web accelerators" all the big dialup ISPs offer their customers. The problem with proxying the data is that frequent accesses are going to be cached, and you might not get the most recent data.
 
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What is that old saying? … believe nothing of what you hear and ½ of what you see… I take everything I read on the web especially with a grain of salt. I listen to opinions and I read reviews but at the end of the day I will try it and decide for myself.
 
I asked another tech at my work who uses nothing but IE7 and IE8 why he used them, and he said because they are integrated into the OS. Is there a benifit to this? I personally use firefox. I am not picky at all when it comes to a browser.
 
SThompson86 said:
I asked another tech at my work who uses nothing but IE7 and IE8 why he used them, and he said because they are integrated into the OS. Is there a benifit to this? I personally use firefox. I am not picky at all when it comes to a browser.
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No benefit to that at all, unless he's to lazy to download and install a third party browser :)
 
For me, it's got to be Google Chrome all the way! It's amazingly quick at opening and also browsing. It's a no frills, fully functional browser that doesn't need the almost weekly bug fixes that M$ send out for IE!

I recommend it to all my customers, and explain about the security bugs in IE (as most of them don't bother with the Windows updates!).

I'll give Opera a go and see how it compares.
 
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