Comments on: Opera Vs. Firefox

By: Waffles

Waffles — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:16:44 +0000

I prefer Opera, but one problem I have had with it is that it doesn’t always terminate its process when it the window is closed. A lot of the time I try to open opera and it tells me that it’s already open, so I’ve gotta go into my task manager to shut down the Opera Process. Also I don’t think it really supports having multiple windows open very well, multiple tabs are great on it. It lets you pin them and group them and do all sorts of things but it tends to act a little funny with extra windows.

Love the ‘copy to note’ and speed dial though, and the task bars take up less space than on firefox, so its a lot better on smaller screens – and as my laptop is widescreen and has a low height to its width ratio I like gaining that extra hight in web pages displayed, some browsers leave me scrolling too much, its just annyoing.

By: Debit

Debit — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:23:43 +0000

I think a more realistic comparison would be how one browser ‘behaves’ with respect to one’s own machine compared to another browser. I have had this problem since I purchased a new laptop.

I recently purchased a Gateway laptop. Because I have been using Firefox for years, one of the first thing I did was to install FF4. Unfortunately, it loads pages containing garbled graphics from time to time. Once I noticed this, as a test measure, I periodically surf to images.google.com to see how it performs. Not good! As a ‘Plan B’, I installed Opera and it does not suffer from the same problem my Firefox has. As a further comparison, my IE9 also does not have the same problem. I still have my old desktop (bought over 10 years ago, still running under Win98) which uses a pre-FF4 and it also does not have this problem. Weird!

By: Sibax

Sibax — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:29:13 +0000

I once tried Opera after being tired of internet explorer about 3 years ago.I also tried in 2 months ago and I got the same results as I got 3 years ago. It is good, has more speed and has very nice features. A few things that made me leave opera are,1. I could not connect my accounting software MAPI to Opera mail to send statements to my customers ; 2. I could not connect to internet banking using Opera. So I was concerned about the security. I tried the forums and doing the suggested fixes but I didn’t succeed. I decided to leave it.
On the other side, Firefox is very good and stable. I doesn’t crash as much as Opera did. An when I loaded both Opera and Firefox, cleaned all the cookies and history, and tested the speed, OK, opera is faster the first time, but when I tried it 2nd and 3rd time using the same website, Firefox was faster. And lastly I chose Firefox because I could easily scan web pages for virus etc using my antivirus software because it’s icon is on F/fox whereas with opera this doesn’t happen.

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By: Haydon

Haydon — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:20:08 +0000

Hi, I came to reveal the truth on Opera vs Firefox. Well, I will tell you what happened. I downloaded Firefox, after about 2-4 days it stopped working it was getting stuck every time! So, what I did was I got opera it was so fast that I couldn’t believe it! Now I’m using Opera for about 7 months and it’s still working no getting stuck or anything! That’s when i realized Opera Rocks!

By: brady

brady — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:19:44 +0000

Opera is a very sleek Web Browser on Linux Mint. Firefox seems to get in the way when you have over 5 programs running at the same time. Most of the CPU is being hogged by Firefox, and I have 2GB of RAM. Opera only uses a small amount of CPU, so in return I can run more than 10 common programs at a time, which is more essential for work. On a Linux OS, Opera is the best choice, though Firefox is the “default” browser.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:32:03 +0000

Problem with FF though is that it kep taking up 50% or more of my CPU, sucked memory dry, kept wreaking havoc with ESET NOD32 AV and kep tlocking up the Windows System Tray. I like the Ad Block Plus addin but the browser lately has been buggy as hell.

By: wantsome

wantsome — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:29:06 +0000

Been, using Opera since the beginning. Loved it, back in the early 90′s and still do.
Would not use anything else, for secure transactions. And, you got to love the ability to
just view text, all those fancy ads and pics are just a waste of my time, let alone a
security risk. Got to love simplicity.

By: Saphlan

Saphlan — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:52:09 +0000

Why do I think you’re the guy that started a thread I read once. It was some guy who believed opera ripped EVERYTHING off firefox. When everyone presented him evidence: Official web pages with date and time and screenshots of older operas he just got angry and started saying that everyone is arguing too much. Then he tried to end the thread 6 times. And some other guy came in and agreed with him(about opera ripping off firefox). And he’s like “Now this is the way I like the thread going”. Anyway it’s pretty obvious most common people don’t know about opera. So when they see it they’re like:”OMG, this browser ripped everything off Firefox!!!” Without considering that firefox may be the one ripping opera off.

Anyway sharing is the way to advance ahead,unless you’re a politician or are into politics or economics.

Saphlan-out

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:57:31 +0000

Meh, Opera had that new look long before the Firefox 4 beta came out. It really would help to know what your talking about before jumping in.

Also the tabs were an Opera creation stolen by FF!