I Am Now A Successful Opera Convert
I have been very excited ever since I got my MacBook, and wanted to taste the glimpse of the “it just works” phenomenon that many Mac evangelists have been preaching to me. Well sure, everything just works, but there’s a few annoyances, which I will talk about some other day.
Let’s get down to the point of this post. Why I am now a successful Opera convert. Starting from today.
Naturally, once you are starting out with a Mac, you’ll be using Safari full time for a while. I quickly downloaded Safari 4 and use it as my main browser. I too, install Firefox since I am so used to it.
Everything went well, until a few days of running everything on a Mac.
Safari slows down considerably. Their graphic-powered “CoverFlow” and “Visual History” feature actually creates a hog and caused the browser to crawl. It might be fine if I’m just surfing for articles. But I do play Flash Games, download tons of stuffs and media streaming. The thing is, when Safari reaches certain period, everything will start to fail – websites timeout, flash goes to a measely 4 frame per second (flipbook animation, anyone?), and worse – my downloads are failing.
Annoyed to the brim, I turn to FireFox. Firefox is fine as I know it, the recent instalment – 3.5 is brilliant. But I do notice something – FireFox takes an awful time to load, and I only have one plugin (addon, you Firefox freaks!) installed for my FireFox. And after similar time of usage with Safari above, it start to act weirdly. Tabs took full 3 seconds to open and close and everything seems to be running through TimeMachine (pun intended) backwards to as if my computer was born in 2003. Solid disappointment.
Finally, I turn to Opera. I was flabbergasted. Opera works fast, and keep working fast! I can now leave my Flash Games to run on another tab and watch stuff on another tab for hours and hours without having an inch of slowing down whatsoever.
So, I am now a solid Opera Convert. (I have Opera on my BlackBerry too)
Thank You, Opera. Opera 10 beta is orgasmic btw!
ps: This post is dedicated to Munirah. My Opera Evangelist next door.
Hmmm… Tim, now you. I guess it is time I made the switch too.
But mai Chrome…
Chrome is horrible in so many ways. I don’t understand why people use it!
Wow, u can be my IT mentor-lah!
I first time heard about Opera, so “pai seh”..
Never too late to learn, right? Wow, Opera
sound so fantastic… must find out more!
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Firefox always has issue with Mac OS ever since I can remember. Definitely a bad port on Mozilla’s part.
On PC running Microsoft Windows, Ff seems to be the fastest followed by Safari, IE, Opera. I couldn’t figure out why Opera struggles to open a page on my computer. I tried it once on a friend’s notebook – it was blazing fast. Mind boggling indeed!
It’s the coding, or just memory management thingy on Micro~ OS
I’ll stay with FF for teh moment :3
Oh yeah sweet sweet Opera. been using it for years…and now I can’t live without mouse gestures. I have to say though that Opera has become a little more bloated with features since the good ol days of opera 6 and 7.
I haven’t been using Opera for a long time now…I was faithful Opera user since Opera 3.1 :D
I can’t live without Firefox because of my work and all the addon i used. I sync my bookmark/session/addon across my PC and laptop so I can immediately start working wherever i am. I also using lot of Security related addon and Nicofox :D
Opera is blazing fast, that for sure. But i using a Firefox mod for a Japanese guy call tete009 and he did amazing optimization on the Firefox so I never have any problem (although memory usage still >200MB high all time)
The last reason that put me off Opera is the NTLM support. Firefox have IETab, i can switch engine whenever i encounter a company IE only website (sharepoint), Opera doesn’t even work well with Microsoft ISA proxy…so i stick to Firefox for now.
I agree…Chrome suck…
I have 5 browsers in my laptop, separated by 3 Windows OS (XP,Vista & 7). I hate IE the most. Its the most frustrating browsers on the planet yet its still no 1. Firefox the best so far, but the latest 3.5 often disappoint me. When there is too many tabs, it slows down and totally resource hungry.
Safari by the way, I like it by its looks and creativity that no other browsers offer yet like Cover Flow and Top Sites. I like its crispy fonts and the way it handles the script. At same point, it crashes and not responding when there’s an excessive demand of connections or when there’s too many sites open at one time.
I also like Chrome because its the simplest browser in the world! It is very much similar to Firefox but it crashes when you open any flash-based site for a very long time. By the way, I heard the Google Chrome OS, is there such thing? If so, when will it be release?
I must agree with you that Opera handles webpages perfectly without complaining. But in Windows, Opera took some time to load a site (even homepage). But so far, its still the best browser I have known today, just not popular.
Here’s a thing, I heard Microsoft is creating a new browser called Gazelle and it will be launch sometime later this year. They claim that each sites uses a separate memory so whenever one of the sites crashed or not responding, it will not affect the other. I’m not sure when will it be release for Mac but I guess you should visit the blog here http://unitybond.blogspot.com/2009/06/gazelle-web-browser.html if you want to know more.